July 21, 2013 · Don't Forget

bit-for-bit copy of DVD on osX (or: how to generate .iso on mac)

  1. Insert DVD
  2. Open up terminal
  3. Find out where it was mounted (diskutil list)
  4. unmount it (sudo umount /dev/disk1)
  5. generate .iso (dd if=/dev/disk1 of=~/dvdImage.iso bs=2048 conv=sync,notrunc)