Burning the Haiku CD

To create your Haiku Installation CD, you need to burn the ISO or Anyboot image to a CD. There are many different ways to burn an them to CD. Shown below is a list of links to how to guides and/or CD burning applications for various different operating systems:

A word of caution on burning CD images: Some disc burning software may try to be "clever" and won't burn the Anyboot image properly. The following image burning applications are reported to work properly:

Burn 2.4.1u
CDRecord
InfraRecorder
K3b

Using CDBurnerXP 4.3.2.2212 must currently be advised against, as it reportedly has produced faulty CDs from the ISO images.

Ubuntu Linux

Burning ISO How To (covers Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu)

FreeBSD

Section 18.6.3 of the FreeBSD Handbook

OpenBSD

Open a terminal and look at the output of dmesg for your cd burner, here it's "cd0":

$ dmesg | grep cd
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0:  ATAPI
5/cdrom removable
cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2

As root, use cdio to burn the ISO image. Note the "c" at the end of the device name: "cd0c":
```
$ cdio -f cd0c tao Haiku.iso
```

Mac OS X

SimplyBurns: http://sourceforge.net/projects/simplyburns/

Windows

InfraRecorder (open source): http://infrarecorder.org
ImgBurn (freeware): http://www.imgburn.com
ISO Recorder (freeware): http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm
Active@ ISO Burner (freeware): http://www.ntfs.com/iso_burner_free.htm

Using cdrecord from a terminal (most flavors of Linux/UNIX, BeOS, etc.)

In most flavors of Linux/UNIX, BSDs and in BeOS, you can also burn the ISO or Anyboot file to CD using the cdrecord command from the Terminal.

cdrecord dev=x,y,z driveropts=burnfree -v -eject -dao -data haiku.iso

Where x,y,z is the device number as found with cdrecord -scanbus (it can also be a device path on Linux), and haiku.iso is the ISO or Anyboot image file to burn to the CD. As a reminder, one does not need to rename the Anyboot image.

Menu