Mac : Make ISO image from command line

By Kaven Gagnon | May 21, 2011

This procedure is about creating a ISO image file from CD/DVD using the command line on a Mac OS X.

First, you can retrieve information about the media with the following command :

drutil status

Then, the disk must me unmounted to proceed :

diskutil unmountDisk disk1

Ok, let’s make the ISO file now :

dd if=/dev/disk1 of=file.iso

Once done, you may remount the disk with the following command :

diskutil mountDisk disk1