Burning Working Linux ISO disks from OS X

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November 26, 2004 - 10:24am

I have an ancient IBM ThinkPad 380ED that I want to use for an installation of Ubuntu linux. I've downloaded the ISO image from the Ubuntu site, but no matter how I burn it to CD I can't get it to boot on the ThinkPad. So far I have used hdiutil to burn the ISO file itself to a disk, and Finder to burn the contents of said ISO to a CD. Neither works. Inside the ISO image is an "install" folder that contains a copy of SBM (smart boot manager), which went written to a diskette using rawrite does boot the ThinkPad, but produced a cryptic error code when used to subsequently boot from the CD drive. How do I create a working ISO disk using OS X? TIA, Mark

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November 29, 2004 - 5:18am

A.T. said

Have you tried using hdiutil convert to create a DVD/CR-R master?

December 22, 2004 - 2:57pm

JC said

I've been using the Disk Utility app to burn Debian ISOs for quite some time without issue. Perhaps the ISO you have is corrupted, or doesn't support the ThinkPad hardware? Linux-on-laptop is still kind of weak...

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