Mac OSX: Burn an ISO image to cdrom from command line

Contributor Icon Contributed by qmchenry Date Icon September 25, 2005  
Tag Icon Tagged: Apple Mac

The command line is trustworthy, dependable and clean.. GUIs are slow and cranky. This recipe desribes how to burn an ISO image from the command line on a Mac. Yeah, there’s a GUI way to do this, but you can be burning the disc before that GUI starts up.


Given an ISO file (image.iso, for example) in the current working directory, use the following command to burn it to a disc that you’ve inserted into a recordable drive:

hdiutil burn image.iso

Editor Note:
Typo Corrected.

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  • Anonymous
    that's actually hdiutil...

    Kevin
  • davak
    <ul id="quote"><h6>Anonymous wrote:</h6>that's actually hdiutil...

    Kevin</ul>

    Thanks, Kevin.

    It's now corrected.
  • Anonymous
    Great tip! Thanks. :)
  • Anonymous
    hdiutil is not found by the 10.4 help system, but there is a man page.

    You might mention that it will eject when it's done.
    Ugly paste follows:



    # garrod@loaner ttyp4.3 $ cd ~/Desktop && ls *iso
    Helix_V1.7-03-07-2006.iso

    # garrod@loaner ttyp4.4 $ cd ~/Desktop && hdiutil burn !$
    hdiutil burn *iso
    Preparing data for burn
    Opening session
    Opening track
    Writing track
    .........................................................................................................................
    Closing track
    .........................................................................................................................
    Closing session
    .........................................................................................................................
    Finishing burn
    Verifying burn...
    Verifying
    ..........................................................................................................................
    Burn completed successfully
    ..........................................................................................................................
    hdiutil: burn: completed

    # garrod@loaner ttyp4.5 $ cd ~/Desktop && ls *iso
    Helix_V1.7-03-07-2006.iso
  • hibrad2003
    Anyone? A way to burn an ISO from CMD in Windows XP? I use Ultra ISO @ the moment, and its cranky sometimes, as are most programs I have used, and nero is a pain. Maybe im just slow, LOL
  • Anonymous
    You can use MagicISO to burn iso image to CD on windows command line. read their tutoral below. It is also a good iso creator.
    http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-mount-is...
  • Anonymous
    Greetings,

    I suppose trying out ISO-burner free util. It never failed me before and is extremely easy to use. You might find it useful, go give it a glance
    http://www.ntfs.com/iso-burning.htm
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