I use a Thinkpad X60s that does not have a CD Drive and occasionally need to install software (This time i was trying out Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 which comes in 2 CD's). I also have a Mac Mini and i use it to create the iso images that could be later mounted on my PC using daemon tools.

Here are the steps

First find out what is your CD Drive

df -h

Filesystem                Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2               74G    62G    12G    83%    /
devfs                      97K    97K     0B   100%    /dev
fdesc                     1.0K   1.0K     0B   100%    /dev
                   512K   512K     0B   100%    /.vol
automount -nsl [207]        0B     0B     0B   100%    /Network
automount -fstab [235]      0B     0B     0B   100%    /automount/Servers
automount -static [235]     0B     0B     0B   100%    /automount/static
/dev/disk1s0              624M   624M     0B   100%    /Volumes/DNS9_CD1

- After inserting a CD Mac OS X automatically mounts it. Unmount it using

diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1s0

Then run the command

dd if=/dev/disk1s0 of=disk1.iso bs=2048

Test the ISO image by mounting it using Finder.

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