Burning the Haiku DVD

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

If you'd like to create your own DVD cover, we have instructions on how to print out and fold your own sleeve.

A word of caution on burning DVD 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 DVDs from the ISO images.

Ubuntu Linux

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

FreeBSD

Section 17.6.2 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
```

macOS

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

Windows

InfraRecorder (open source): http://infrarecorder.org

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 DVD 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 DVD. As a reminder, one does not need to rename the Anyboot image.