You have DVD with software and you want to install with Parallels/VMware Fusion/Virtual Box but … you don’t want to use your old scribbled disk and we need to convert it to .iso.
[18:31]vhristev@coco-12:~$drutil status Vendor Product Rev MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-868 KB19 Type: DVD-ROM Name: /dev/disk1 Sessions: 1 Tracks: 1 Overwritable: 00:00:00 blocks: 0 / 0.00MB / 0.00MiB Space Free: 00:00:00 blocks: 0 / 0.00MB / 0.00MiB Space Used: 348:05:15 blocks: 1566390 / 3.21GB / 2.99GiB Writability: Book Type: DVD-ROM (v1) [18:31]vhristev@coco-12:~$diskutil umountDisk /dev/disk1 Unmount of all volumes on disk1 was successful [18:31]vhristev@coco-12:~$dd if=/dev/disk1 of=Solaris_10.iso bs=2048 |