Burning Ubuntu Linux ISO On OS X
If you ever try to download, burn and install the Ubunto warty ISO image on OS X you’ll find that Disk Utility crashes and hdiutil crashes. To get it to burn you need to install cdrecord using fink (fink install cdrecord) and then use the information on this page to work out how to burn it. On my PowerBook G4 with a DVD-R/CD-RW drive I used the command:
sudo cdrecord -v speed=24 dev=IODVDServices warty-rc-install-powerpc.iso
and it’s working fine. We’ll see how it goes from here on in.
October 31st, 2004 at 6:04 pm
I used someone’s precompiled Mac OS X binaries (10.2 and higher) instead of the fink ones. They were found here - http://homepage.mac.com/machiavel/Executables/cdrtools-OSXbin.tgz .
Thanks for the tip! I hope this install will be as easy as the ones on i386. :-)
– Asheesh.
November 4th, 2004 at 10:48 am
Thanks for the tip — I’ve been fooling with this all day and haven’t been getting anywhere.
November 22nd, 2004 at 10:29 pm
To get cdrecord to work under OS X, look here:
http://homepage.mac.com/machiavel/Text/cdrecord.html
December 14th, 2004 at 9:11 am
Thanks, really useful - I thought it was just me!
Jeff
January 3rd, 2005 at 9:01 pm
Was scratching my head why an iso like the Ubuntu
http://releases.ubuntu.com/warty/warty-release-install-powerpc.iso
also available at
http://ftp.cs.umn.edu/pub/ubuntu-releases/4.10/
http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu-cdimage/4.10/
with a checksum of and MD5 validated
6ef6fe1a63831c0c92db9a89869a33ea
would cause Disk Utility and the underlying software to
abort/crash, but they do (not very robust testing for apple)…
Your solution is working as I type, thank you very much!
SeaForth is a FORTH-like xTalk stack based system written
in SenseTalk for OSX (and other platforms, that is why I’m
installing GNUstep for PPC-Linux and Ubuntu to see if
I can get the compilers to port)
February 4th, 2005 at 1:55 pm
How exactly do you verify the checksum for these iso downloads? Thanks in advance.
February 21st, 2005 at 4:11 pm
You verify a checksum by using md5sum, it is available on the commandline in your CLI based app called Terminal. CLI is command line interface. do a ‘man md5sum’ in Terminal, and RTFM your way to happiness. RTFM of course is read the fine manual :)
February 22nd, 2005 at 12:42 am
Would it not be easier to just use an app like FireStarter to burn the .iso from within OS X?
http://www.projectomega.org/subcat.php?lg=en&php=products_firestarter
Worked for me, anyway.
April 22nd, 2006 at 6:48 am
In Mac OS X Tiger, I use the command line program: hdiutil. Just type:
hdiutil burn image.iso (substitute the correct name for the iso image)
It writes, and verifies automatically.
You can also use it to burn dmg files.