
On Catalina, when trying to copy an old RedHat 6.2 install CD I found that using diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2 iso files are only readable but not writeable, and if one month later you issue a dd command that might overwrite an existing file, it actually will come back with a "Permission denied" error so that you won't overwrite that existing file. In addition, since dd can overwrite any existing file, so you might want to do chmod 444 *.iso so that all. diskutil eject /dev/disk1 is to eject the disc for some optical drive that won't let you eject manually but requires OS X to eject the disc.

It will take a while and you will see the optical drive's light blinking, if the drive has such a light. dd if=/dev/disk1 of=DiscImage01.iso is to create the ISO image in your current directory (which is your home directory if you just started the Terminal app without doing any cd command).


(Only a PowerPC version is listed.)įor storing on your hard drive you might find it more useful to transcode the content to unencrypted H.264 using Handbrake. If you want a program that will copy the disc to the hard drive and also remove the copy protection so that you can burn it to a new unprotected disc, MacTheRipper will do that, but it looks like it hasn't been updated in a while. Nevertheless, you can play it using a program like VLC which doesn't need the keys, since it is able to circumvent the encryption. So if you burn a new disc with this image it will not play on a standard DVD player.

But if the disc is copy protected, it contains decryption keys in the lead-in area of the disc which cannot be read directly, and are not part of the ISO image. As mentioned in other answers you can use Disk Utility or dd to create an ISO image of the original disc.
