Creating ISO on Mac OSX

I use a Thinkpad X60s that does not have a CD Drive and occasionally need to install software (This time i was trying out Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 which comes in 2 CD”s). I also have a Mac Mini and i use it to create the iso images that could be later mounted on my PC using daemon tools.

Here are the steps

First find out what is your CD Drive

df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2 74G 62G 12G 83% /
devfs 97K 97K 0B 100% /dev
fdesc Truck Driving  [best-driving-school.com](http://best-driving-school.com/)  in Oklahoma. 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
 512K 512K 0B 100% /.vol
automount -nsl [207] 0B 0B 0B 100% /Network
automount -fstab [235] 0B 0B 0B 100% /automount/Servers
automount -static [235] 0B 0B 0B 100% /automount/static
/dev/disk1s0 624M 624M 0B 100% /Volumes/DNS9_CD1

• After inserting a CD Mac OS X automatically mounts it. Unmount it using

diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1s0

Then run the command

dd if=/dev/disk1s0 of=disk1.iso bs=2048

Test the ISO image by mounting it using Finder.