{"id":960,"date":"2017-04-22T13:39:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T02:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/?post_type=article&#038;p=960"},"modified":"2022-12-01T19:56:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T08:56:01","slug":"create-iso-image-cd-dvd-mac-osx-using-terminal-command-line","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/create-iso-image-cd-dvd-mac-osx-using-terminal-command-line\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create an ISO Image from a CD or DVD on Mac OSX using Terminal \/ Command Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst there are many ways to burn a disk image on a Mac, \u00a0here is how to create an ISO image from a Mac\u00a0using the command line.<\/p>\n<h2>Step 1<\/h2>\n<p>Insert the DVD or CD in to your drive<\/p>\n<h2>Step 2<\/h2>\n<p>Open Disk Utility (Click on Launchpad and type in Disk Utility)<\/p>\n<h2>Step 3<\/h2>\n<p>Click on the CD\/DVD drive and make note of the <strong>Device. \u00a0<\/strong>In this example below it is <strong>disk1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-22-at-12.26.45-pm.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-961\" data-original=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-22-at-12.26.45-pm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Step 4<\/h2>\n<p>Open a Terminal Window<\/p>\n<h2>Step 5<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Type in the following command:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>diskutil unmount \/dev\/<strong>disk1<\/strong>\u00a0(replace disk1 with whatever your DVD drive is called from Step 3)<\/p>\n<h2>Step 6<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Type in the following command:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>dd if=\/dev\/<strong>disk1<\/strong>\u00a0of=DiscImage01.iso<\/p>\n<p><strong> Once finished it will show you something like this:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>1637286+0 records in<\/em><br \/>\n<em>1637286+0 records out<\/em><br \/>\n<em>838290432 bytes transferred in 329.155089 secs (2546795 bytes\/sec)<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Step 7<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Type in the following command:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">diskutil eject \/dev\/disk1<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Step 8<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Check the directory you were in when you issued the commands. \u00a0It will usually be your home directory by default. \u00a0You will find an ISO named DiskImage01.iso<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style='text-align:left' class='yasr-auto-insert-visitor'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst there are many ways to burn a disk image on a Mac, \u00a0here is how to create an ISO image from a Mac\u00a0using the command line. Step 1 Insert the DVD or CD in to your drive Step 2 Open Disk Utility (Click on Launchpad and type in Disk Utility) Step 3 Click on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[25],"article-tag":[727,728],"class_list":["post-960","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-apple-mac","article-tag-iso-command-image-mac","article-tag-mac-iso-image-burn"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":4,"sum_votes":17},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-tag?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}