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Create bootable OS X Maverick
USB Flash DrivePosted on 23 October 2013
Create bootable OS X Maverick USB Flash Drive from original App Store Mavericks
10.9 package.
1) Erase a minimum 8GB USB pen drive using Disk Utility* and ensure it’s named
‘Untitled’ and Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format.
2) Download OS X Mavericks from the Mac App Store. It’ll download and save to the
Applications folder automatically. Furthermore, after it’s finished downloading, it may
automatically begin the install process. If this happens, just quickly cancel it.
3) Run the below command in Terminal** window:
4) Type your current user password.
The application will erase your USB pen drive first, then write Mac OS X Mavericks files
making it bootable. The result of burning image into USB should be as follows:
Password:
Erasing Disk: 0%… 10%… 20%…100%…
Copying installer files to disk…
Copy complete.
Making disk bootable…
Copying boot files…
Copy complete.
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\
Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia
--volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath
/Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app -
-nointeraction
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Done.
* – in order to run Disk Utility press CMD + Space, type Disk Utility and click/select to run.
Alternatively go to Applications > Utilities, find and run Disk Utility from there.
** – in order to run Terminal press CMD + Space, type Terminal and click/select to run.
Alternatively go to Applications > Utilities, find and run Terminal from there.
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Max Howell
on 23 October 2013 at 2:35 am said:
WordPress has converted the -- into — which makes the copy and paste
fail here.
david
on 23 October 2013 at 2:52 am said:
Should be fine now i.e. have tested copying and pasting into
Terminal and it started burning my Apple Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9
into USB Flash Drive. Please let me know if you experience any
problems. Ta for letting me know. D
Asger
on 23 October 2013 at 1:06 pm said:
I am running a danish Mac OS version and folders are named differently. I
have tried to replace “Applications” with “Programmer” in the command
above, but that results in “command not found”. Do I need to replace
anything else, to make this work with my local language version of Mac
OS?
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david
on 23 October 2013 at 1:16 pm said:
I would remove the whole ‘/Applications/Install\ OS\ X\
Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia’ and start
typing /Progr hit Tab key to complete then type next part of the
path that’s equivalent to ‘Install’ in your language hit tab again and
continue doint that until you get to the last ‘createinstallmedia’.
Same applies for /Volumes/Untitled which may differ in other
languages. Tab key basically will autocompelete for you the correct
path.
ankit
on 23 October 2013 at 3:39 pm said:
What if I want to burn a bootable DVD. How do I make one?
david
on 24 October 2013 at 3:40 am said:
You’ll need a Dual Layer 8GB DVD in order to burn the image:
1) Search in Spotlight (cmd+space) for ‘Install OS X
Mavericks.app’.
2) Click on ‘Show All in Finder’ at the top.
3) Find ‘Install OS X Mavericks’ package, right click and choose
‘Show Package Contents’.
4) Navigate to ‘SharedSupport’ folder
5) Right click on InstallESD.dmg and select Burn “InstallESD.dmg”
to Disc… (this should burn file’s contents although still need to test
it).
Mireille
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on 17 November 2013 at 10:52 pm said:
Many thanks, it worked perfectly. Well, it didn’t work at first, but that’s
because I had not begun by downloading Maverick. So I did, following these
instructions:
“Download OS X Mavericks from the Mac App Store. It’ll download and save
to the Applications folder automatically. Furthermore, after it’s finished
downloading, it may automatically begin the install process. If this
happens, just quickly cancel it.”
And then, the Terminal command worked perfectly.
Thank you again!
david
on 17 November 2013 at 11:15 pm said:
That’s a very good point! I should have never assumed people have
already downloaded the new OS X. I’ve added your paragraph to my
text – thank you very much.