Burning ubuntu ppc iso on mac os x fails

[John]

Dave Miller wrote:
> John Levin wrote:
> 
>> Weird problem: every time I try to burn an ubuntu ppc iso on my mac os 
>> x systems, 'Disk Utility' unexpectedly crashes. This does not happen 
>> with any other iso - including the ubuntu x86 isos.
>>
>> Anyone had similar experiences?
> 
> 
> Yep, I've been having this problem also.  I happen to have Toast, which 
> works fine, so I've been having to use that.  I'm told that the cdrecord 
> command-line program that you can install via fink works, but I haven't 
> been able to get that to work with my CD burner (Apple Superdrive).
> 
> Whether the CD image is malformed or not, the fact that Disk Utility 
> crashes when you try to burn it is definitely a bug in Disk Utility.  I 
> would certainly pester Apple about it.  (I've been submitting a crash 
> report every day or so ;)  If the image is bad, I would expect Disk 
> Utility to tell me so instead of crashing.  I kind of doubt that it's 
> bad since Toast burns it without any problem.
> 


Have you tried the commandline program, hdiutil?


Has anyone tried writing it to a DVD?

I was going to try but I seem to have erased the ISO.