Mac - Burn ISO-9660 DVD Format?

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(one of these days the SDMB will allow searches of three letter words, right??)

Hi all,

Just when I thought I knew it all, there’s a stupid, simple, thing I cannot figure out how to do on my Mac OS X system! Anyone know definitively how to do this:

Burn a DVD-R (or -RW) using ISO-9660 (with Joliet) format? NOT HFS, HFS+, UFS, UDF, hybrid, and so on, but pure, straight ISO-9660 (with Joliet)?

I’m using Mac OS X 10.2.3 with built-in burning and internal SuperDrive (the DVD kind, not the DSDD 1.4M SuperDrive of old :)). I’ve also tried Toast 5.2.

I’ve routinely done this with CD-R/RW, but DVD-R/RW seems to be a problem. Apple Knowledgebase indicates that Finder burns are HFS+ only (no hybrid), so Toast would seem to be the answer. But making a DVD made a UDF disk, not an ISO-9660. Making an MP3 disk made an HFS+ disk. I’ve even made an MS-DOS disk image with Disk Copy, and burned that image with Toast, and the disk was unreadable in the Mac! I have not tried burning the MS-DOS image with Disk Copy – maybe I’ll try that next if I can’t get a definite answer here. These coasters are getting expensive!

THANKS!

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I had the same problem. The CD’s that Mac OS X’s Disc Copy.app will burn cannot be read by other OS’s. Some people claim differently, but in my experience it truly cannot be read, at least with default settings.

The solution is to use mkisofs on the terminal command line. This is what worked for me. Then when you got the disk image from mkisofs, use Disk Copy.app to burn it.

Here’s the exact command I did. I was in a directory containing everything I wanted to burn to CD. I did

mkisofs * > cd.iso

Then clicked on cd.iso in the finder to bring up Disk Copy, then burn it.

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Oh, one more thing. The mkisofs utility is part of the Fink suite ( http://fink.sourceforge.net/)

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Avumede, thanks! Worked like a charm, and produced a beautiful, perfectly-sized ISO-9660 w/ Joliet disk image! Disk Copy had no problem burning it onto the DVD-RW, and all is well. Of course, the DVD-RW is still useless, but, oh well – I’ll buy some more coasters, errr, DVD-R’s and see if they’ll work with this method.