9/19/2020 Bootable Usb Drive Mac Os X Mavericks
It’s finally here – yes, Apple has finally released OS X Mavericks to the public! With the public release, Apple has changed the necessary steps required to build a fully functional bootable USB installer for the preview.
Oct 26, 2013 Being on Snow leopard, this is how I did it made the USB bootable stick and did a clean install. Downloaded Mavericks from the app store. At the end of the download it comes up and ask you to click continue to install. Nov 08, 2013 Apple no longer supply a bootable USB Flash Drive for their newest OSX Mavericks operating system, just as they did with Mountain Lion. Using this tutorial you will.
A USB install disc can be an important tool to quickly and easily install a fresh copy on your Mac, without first having to install OS X Mountain Lion and then upgrade using the Mac App Store method. Since Apple has changed a few things since their first developer preview, we’ve got a new method for creating a USB install disc also – and this one should work for many versions of OS X to come.
Note: While the old method still technically works, it will not install a Recovery Partition, whereas this new method will. Before you proceed, please note that you will need a flash drive at least 8GB in size or larger.
Here’s how to make it work, courtesy of some helpful instructions from MacRumors forum member tywebb13:
Your 8 GB USB drive should be called Untitled and formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). The installer should be called Install OS X Mavericks.app and should be in your Applications folder.
Create Usb Boot Disk Mac Os X Mavericks
Run this in terminal and wait about 20 minutes:
sudo /Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app --nointeraction
You should see something like this:
Erasing Disk: 0%… 10%… 20%… 100%…
Copying installer files to disk… Copy complete. Making disk bootable… Copying boot files… Copy complete. Done.
Patience is key. The process can take up to 20-30 minutes to finish, even though Terminal may not look like it is doing anything. Make sure to wait until you see the “Done.” prompt before exiting Terminal or interrupting the process.
That’s all there is to it! For reference, the original method of creating a USB boot drive can also be found at this link.
Update (10/24/13): Fixed a minor issue in how the code was displayed, and updated to reflect the public release of Mavericks.
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Apple released OS X Mavericks free for all Mac user you can download it from App Store and update your current version of OS X to Mavericks. In this guide you will learn how to Make OS X Mavericks Bootable USB Drive.
Why make a bootable USB drive?
The reason to create a USB drive is you don’t need to download OS X each time when you want to install OS X Mavericks on single or multiple Mac computers. OS X Mavericks file size is approx. 5.31 GB and you should save time and your bandwidth as well. Off course you will have backup and can perform clean intall any time if your Mac experiencing problems.
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Requirements:
Make OS X Mavericks USB
Download OS X Mavericks on your mac, here is direct download link. it may take more than an hour to download this depending on internet speed.
You will see icon like this when downloading starts.
When you just finished downloading and see the setup OS X Mavericks screen, minimize it.
Go to Applications folder and copy the downloaded “Install OS X Mavericks.app” file to “Desktop” as shown below
Make OS X Mavericks Bootable USB Drive
Now plug in 8GB of USB drive into your Mac USB port. You will see a drive icon on your Mac Desktop, Rename drive to
usbdrive (select the drive icon and then click on its name text to rename it )
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ALERT: everything from your USB drive will be erased so before going to the next step make sure you save your data from USB drive first.
Run Terminal from “Applications” or find it in “Spotlight” by pressing
cmd+space keys.
Copy and paste the following command in “Terminal” window.
sudo /Users/TrickyWays/Desktop/Install OS X Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/usbdrive --applicationpath /Users/TrickyWays/Desktop/Install OS X Mavericks.app --nointeraction
Edit command text:
replace TrickyWays with your Mac user name.usbdrive is drive name that you plugged in.so make sure you are using your own username and drive name in the command sytax.
Above command is explained more at the bottom of this guide.
How To Make A Bootable Usb Drive Mac Os X Mavericks![]()
When you run this command in the Terminal you may asked to enter the administrator password, so type the password and hit return key.
If command executed successfully you will see the progress as shown below. copying files will take some time about 15 mins, so don’t do anything until you get “Done.” message
Erasing Disk: 0%... 10%... 20%...100%...
Explore the content of the USB drive, Now you have bootable OS X Mavericks USB drive that you can use on any Mac for fresh installation.
To boot your Mac from USB, plug in the bootable USB that you have created and restart your Mac, hold down the Option key while system is booting and you will see a window where you can select bootable USB drive to boot from.
Command Explained
There is a createinstallmedia file in the OS X package that is used to create this bootable USB drive. To see this file ctrl+click on the “Install OS X Mavericks” file and select “Show Package Content option” then open Contents > Resources folder, here you can see this file is available.
So we use sudo command with combination of createinstallmedia file and pass some parameters and arguments, below screenshot which tells the command usage, optional arguments and example as well.
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