Making ISO CDs for new Debian box from Mac

Buckyjunior · 12-11-2003, 01:48 PM

Greetings from a relatively new user.

I've downloaded ISO images to my Mac but seem to be having difficulty burning ISOs. After mounting the images and dragging them to Toast Titanium 5.2.3, Toast suggests that I need thousands of terrabytes of space for each CD. Probably due to multiple aliases. Even not resolving the aliases doesn't reduce the perceived size of the image. It still wants 1.6 GB.

I would like to put Debian on my "newer" machine using these ISOs. I would have considered doing a net install, but at this point I can't seem to get my lan card(s) recognized by the Debian install floppy (or an old RedHat 7.2 install).

I'm looking for a solution to burning the ISOs.

Bucky

llamakc · 12-11-2003, 03:49 PM

Don't use Toast. Use Disk Utility (in Panther) and Disk Copy (in pre-Panther). If you have the .iso mounted on the Desktop already, just insert a blank, and do it an even easier way: choose Finder for the type of program to open, and drag the iso to the blank cd icon. Make sure its set for DVD/Master, and burn away. Works every time for me.

Buckyjunior · 12-11-2003, 05:25 PM

Thanks llamkc,
I'm using Jaguar 10.2.8. with no success yet. The burn preferences are now buried in Disk Copy. My first "coaster" was an 88 MB HFS CD. I'm filling my dust bin.

Another attempt after a walk to the grocer for some celery.

Bucky

Buckyjunior · 12-12-2003, 01:27 AM

No good using Jaguar's Disk Copy burner to make a bootable ISO. Disk 1 wouldn't even check out to burn and I could burn Disk 2, it's ISO but won't boot in the HP.

I think that since there are more options for Windoze Refugees, I'll reinstall that OS on the machine, copy over the disk images, burn them and go from there.

Another avenue. As one well know author wrote "There's More Than One Way To Do It." Of course he was talking about something else.

Bucky

llamakc · 12-12-2003, 07:49 AM

from Terminal.app,

hdiutil burn myimage.iso

Buckyjunior · 12-12-2003, 12:16 PM

llamakc,

Thanks for your persistence in getting me over this hurdle. The first attempt at burning the ISO from the terminal seems to have worked. At least Disk 1 reads from the HP (temporarily running RH 7.2).

My problem may have been that I was mounting the disk images and trying to burn those rather than burning the downloaded images.

[Aside: There sure are lots of programs hiding in the depths--under the pretty aqua face--of OS X. Sometime I'll have to go diving.]

Thanks to you I'm on track for installing Debian now.

Bucky