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Burning a cd from an iso image from the commandline
23 Jan 07 - http://www.approximity.com/cgi-bin/blogtariAgile/index.rb/MacOSX/BurningISOFromCommandLine.rdoc
OS X can do, it too :-) Insert a blank cd, and off it goes :-).
 hdiutil burn image.iso

 $ hdiutil  burn  KNOPPIX_V5.1.1CD-2007-01-04-EN.iso
 Preparing data for burn
 Opening session
 Opening track
 Writing track
 ..............................................................................
 Closing track
 ..............................................................................
 Closing session
 ..............................................................................
 Finishing burn
 Verifying burn...
 Verifying
 ...............................................................................
 Burn completed successfully
 ...............................................................................
 hdiutil: burn: completed

Good old trusted linux does it with cdrecord :-)

 cdrecord  speed=2 dev=0,1,0 -data sol-9-install-sparc.iso