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Help with DVD ISO burning and CDFS

This started simple enough, but now I am completely confused. Need some help.


I have a new 27" imac with SSD and 32GB ram.

Purchased VMWare (latest version) and am running Windows 7 very well as a guest operating system.

Desire to run Ubuntu under VMWare.


I downloaded the Ubuntu 13.04 ISO file from Ubuntu website. No problems. Used Disk Utility to burn a DVD R. No problem. But....


The IMac will not mount or read the DVD. Loaded the DVD into Windows and it reads it fine. Windows says that the file system on the DVD is CDFS.

I have installed Ubuntu on an older Imac with no problems using the same procedure. I am completly baffled.


Looked at Ubuntu website, VMWare website, Apple Website and found no answers. But did discover that others have the same problem, i.e., DVD is burned but Imac will not read it.


Questions:

Apparantly some others are successful at installing this Ubuntu ISO on Macs. Why it doesn't the DVD burn work with my new Imac?

What is the CDFS? Is this some foreign file system that only Windows will read? If so, why is it working on other macs?

Is this something associated with the latest Mac operating system?



I am completely confused. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Posted on Jun 14, 2013 2:23 PM

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User profile for user: VaMichael
VaMichael Author
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Jun 14, 2013 3:29 PM in response to BDAqua

Thanks. Especially for the work-around.


However, the references pointed to clearly show that CDFS is an independent standard for CDs (DVDs) and that the iMac operating system will read them.


If that is true, then why won't the new iMac read the DVD, but a Windows machine will? This point is still not clear.


Additionally, since Ubuntu has this ISO and Mac instruction on its website it is clear to me that it should work. And to clarify, with my older iMac and previous versions of the operating system it used to work - have done it before.


So, I still do not understand the technical reason the new iMac and operating system will not read the DVD. Is it possible that the superdrive provided with the iMac is incapable of it? (I bought a superdrive with the new iMac.)


Would be interested in a technical assessment of this.

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