10.3: Create bootable ISO Image CDs using Disk Utility
Feb 23, '04 10:02:00AM
Contributed by: texspeed
This is simple - but I haven't seen it described quite this way before. I made a couple of coasters before trying this particular approach. Now that Disk Copy is merged into Disk Utility, this seems to work reliably if you have an existing ISO image:
- Insert a blank CD into a supported burner
- When the Finder dialog appears, select "Open other application" for the desired action
- Navigate as you prefer and then select "Disk Utility" as the desired application to open
- After Disk Utility opens, drag the ISO image file to the lower portion (below the horizontal divider) of the left-hand pane where disks and volumes are displayed in the Disk Utility dialog
- Select the ISO image file,
- Click the "Burn" icon at the top-left of the Disk Utility dialog.
I made a set of bootable Linux install CDs for PC systems in this way. I would expect this method to also create bootable DVDs but have not yet tried it.
BTW, you might intuitively think that opening Disk Utility and executing steps 4 - 6 and inserting a CD would provide the same results but this seems to not be the case. When I tried it that way I invariably received an error message that the media was not writable.
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