Hi,
I'll paste in an excerpt from a post I borrowed from somewhere on the web. I
won't take credit for this info as I've borrowed it but can tell you it works
as mentioned. I would use Option #1 myself.
Begin excerpt...
Option 1: Use createinstallmedia
Hidden inside the Mavericks installer is a Unix program called
createinstallmedia, provided by Apple for creating a bootable Mavericks
installer. If you're comfortable using Terminal, it's a relatively simple tool
to use. The program assumes your account has administrator privileges.
Note: This method does not work in Snow Leopard. It works only in Lion,
Mountain Lion, or Mavericks. (The resulting installer drive will let you
install Mavericks over Snow Leopard, but you can't create the installer drive
while booted into Snow Leopard.) If you need to create a Mavericks install
drive while booted into Snow Leopard, you should use the Disk Utility
instructions, below.
Download the Mavericks installer from the Mac App Store and make sure it's in
your main Applications folder. (This means that if you followed my advice to
move the installer out of your Applications folder, you'll have to move it
back, at least temporarily. The Terminal command I'm using here assumes the
installer is in its default location.)
Connect to your Mac a properly formatted 8GB (or larger) drive. Rename the
drive to Untitled. (The Terminal command used here assumes the drive is named
Untitled.)
Select the text of this Terminal command and copy it:
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\
Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled
--applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app --nointeraction
Launch Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities).
Paste the copied command into Terminal and press Return. Warning: This step
will erase the destination drive or partition, so make sure it doesn't contain
any valuable data.
Enter your admin-level account password when prompted.
The Terminal window displays the progress of the process, in a very Terminal
sort of way, by displaying a textual representation of a progress bar: Erasing
Disk: 0%... 10%...20%... and so on. The program then tells you it's copying the
installer files, making the disk bootable, and copying boot files. Wait until
you see the text Copy Complete. Done. (This could take as long as 20 or 30
minutes, depending on how fast your Mac can copy data to your destination drive.
You now have a bootable Mavericks-install drive. If you're curious about
createinstallmedia, type or paste the following command in Terminal and press
Return:
/Applications/Install\ OS\ X\
Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia
The resulting text output shows you the (brief) instructions for using
createinstallmedia more generically. (Thanks to a developer on Apple's
Developer Forums for pointing out createinstallmedia a while back)
The createinstallmedia command in Terminal
Using the createinstallmedia command in Terminal
Option 2: Use Disk Utility
You'll find Disk Utility, a handy app built into OS X, in
/Applications/Utilities. Here are the steps for using it to create your
installer drive, which are a bit more involved with Mavericks than they were
with Mountain Lion and Lion.
Note: As mentioned above, based on my testing, an installer drive created using
Disk Utility will not create a Recovery HD partition if your Mac's drive
doesn't already have one. You can determine whether or not your Mac has a
Recovery HD partition using the instructions in our article on recovery mode.
If your Mac's drive is missing the Recovery HD partition, you should use the
createinstallmedia instructions, above, as the resulting installer drive will
create the missing partition when you install Mavericks.
Mavericks show package contents
Right-click (or Control+click) the Mavericks installer to view its contents.
Once you've downloaded Mavericks, find the installer on your Mac. It's called
Install OS X Mavericks.app and it should have been downloaded to your main
Applications folder (/Applications).
Right-click (or Control+click) the installer, and choose Show Package Contents
from the resulting contextual menu.
In the folder that appears, open Contents, then open Shared Support; you'll see
a disk image file called InstallESD.dmg.
Double-click InstallESD.dmg in the Finder to mount its volume. That volume will
appear in the Finder as OS X Install ESD.
The file you want to get to is actually another disk image inside OS X Install
ESD called BaseSystem.dmg. Unfortunately, BaseSystem.dmg is invisible, and
because this is a read-only volume, you can't make BaseSystem.dmg visible.
Instead, you'll mount it using Terminal, which makes it visible in Disk
Utility. Open the Terminal app (in /Application/Utilities), and then type open
/Volumes/OS\ X\ Install\ ESD/BaseSystem.dmg and press Return.
Launch Disk Utility (in /Applications/Utilities). You'll see both
InstallESD.dmg (with its mounted volume, OS X Install ESD, below it) and
BaseSystem.dmg (with its mounted volume, OS X Base System, below it) in the
volumes list on the left.
Select BaseSystem.dmg (not OS X Base System) in Disk Utility's sidebar, and
then click the Restore button in the main part of the window.
Drag the BaseSystem.dmg icon into the Source field on the right (if it isn't
already there).
Connect to your Mac the properly formatted hard drive or flash drive you want
to use for your bootable Mavericks installer.
In Disk Utility, find this destination drive in the left sidebar. You may see a
couple partitions under the drive: one named EFI and another with the name you
see for the drive in the Finder. Drag the latter--the one with the drive
name--into the Destination field on the right. (If the destination drive has
additional partitions, just drag the partition you want to use as your bootable
installer volume.)
Warning: This step will erase the destination drive or partition, so make sure
it doesn't contain any valuable data. Click Restore, and then click Erase in
the dialog box that appears; if prompted, enter an admin-level username and
password.
Wait for the restore procedure to finish, which should take just a few minutes.
In Disk Utility, select BaseSystem.dmg on the left (not OS X Base System) and
click the Eject button in the toolbar. This action unmounts the disk image
named OS X Base System. (If you don't do this, you have two mounted volumes
named OS X Base System--the mounted disk image and your destination
drive--which makes the next step more confusing.)
Open the destination drive--the one you're using for your bootable install
drive, which has been renamed OS X Base System. Inside that drive, open the
System folder, and then open the Installation folder. You'll see an alias
called Packages. Delete that alias.
Open the mounted OS X Install ESD volume, and you'll see only a folder called
Packages. Drag that folder into the Installation folder on your destination
drive. (You're basically replacing the deleted Packages alias with this
Packages folder.) The folder is about 4.8GB in size, so the copy will take a
bit of time, especially if you're copying to a slow thumb drive.
Eject the OS X Install ESD volume.
If you like, you can rename your bootable installer drive from OS X Base System
to something more descriptive, such as OS X Mavericks Installer.
(Note that there is a way to perform this procedure that doesn't require
Terminal. However, it adds other steps, and it requires making all invisible
files visible in the Finder. Because seeing all the Finder's normally invisible
detritus can be a bit disconcerting, I've opted for using Terminal in Step 5.)
Disk Utility to make a bootable Mavericks installer drive
You can use Disk Utility's Restore screen to create a bootable installer drive.
Option 3: Use DiskMaker X
DiskMaker X (previously called Lion DiskMaker) is a utility that makes it easy
to create a bootable OS X install drive, and version 3 supports the Mavericks
installer. In fact, under the hood, DiskMaker X 3 actually uses the new
createinstallmedia program.
Notes: Because DiskMaker X 3 uses createinstallmedia, it does not work under
Snow Leopard. (The resulting installer drive will let you install Mavericks
over Snow Leopard, but you can't create the installer drive while booted into
Snow Leopard.) In addition, DiskMaker X 3 hasn't worked perfectly for me. For
example, I experienced an issue where the utility alerted me that it couldn't
properly name the drive it was creating; however, the installer drive appeared
to function properly. If DiskMaker X doesn't work for you, you can use one of
the other two methods, above.
Connect to your Mac a properly formatted 8GB (or larger) drive.
Make sure the Mavericks installer, called Install OS X Mavericks.app, is in
your main Applications folder (/Applications). If you followed my advice to
move the installer out of your Applications folder, you'll have to move it
back, at least temporarily.
Launch DiskMaker X.
Click OK on the warning screen that appears.
In the Welcome screen, click Mavericks (10.9).
You'll see a dialog box alerting you that DiskMaker X found a copy of the
installer in /Applications, and asking if you wish to use this copy. If you
have multiple OS X installers (say, Mavericks and Mountain Lion), make sure the
DiskMaker X message indicates that it has found the Mavericks installer. If so,
click Use This Copy. If not, click Use Another Copy and manually locate the
Install OS X Mavericks app.
The next dialog box asks which kind of disk you'll be using as your bootable
install drive. If you have an 8GB thumb drive, click that button; otherwise,
click Another Kind Of Disk.
The next dialog box presents a list of available drives. Select the one you
want to use and click Choose This Disk.
You see a warning that proceeding will erase both the selected volume and any
other partition on the same disk. In other words, the drive you've chosen will
be erased, so make sure it doesn't contain any valuable data. Click Erase Then
Create The Disk.
The next dialog box lets you know that you'll be asked to provide an
administrator username and password to build the install drive. Click Continue;
when prompted a few seconds later, enter that username and password.
As I mentioned in my review of an earlier version of DiskMaker X (then called
Lion DiskMaker), there will be times in the process when it appears as if
nothing's happening, so be patient. Once the process is complete, DiskMaker X
will display a confirmation dialog box. Unlike with the Disk Utility approach,
DiskMaker X helpfully names the bootable installer volume Install OS X
Mavericks.
Mavericks Lion DiskMaker
DiskMaker X can automate the process of making a bootable Mavericks installer
drive.
Booting from the installer drive
Whichever of the three processes you've used, you can now boot any
Mavericks-compatible Mac from the resulting drive: Just connect the drive to
your Mac and either (if your Mac is already booted into OS X) choose the
install drive in the Startup Disk pane of System Preferences or (if your Mac is
currently shut down) hold down the Option key at startup and choose the install
drive when OS X's Startup Manager appears.
When your Mac is booted from your installer drive, you can, of course, install
the OS, but you can also use any of the Mavericks installer's special recovery
and restore features. Depending on how you made your installer drive, when you
boot from that drive, you may even see the same OS X Utilities screen you get
when you boot into OS X Recovery (recovery mode). However, unlike with recovery
mode, your bootable installer includes the entire installer.
Learn much more about Mavericks from our Total Mavericks Superguide ebook.
Updated 10/22/2013, 6:30p.m., to add the method for using OS X's
createinstallmedia command to create a bootable installer drive. Updated
10:45p.m. to indicate how long the createinstallmedia command can take. Updated
10/23/2013, 4:30p.m., to add note about createinstallmedia and Snow Leopard.
Updated 10/24/2013 to reflect name change of Lion DiskMaker to DiskMaker X.
Updated 10/27/2013 to note which methods will properly create the Recovery HD
partition when necessary; to add link to instructions for creating a
Mavericks-install CD; and to include minor edits for clarity. Updated 5/7/2014
to reference our article on creating a bootable Mavericks install drive for
newer Macs.
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René Gámez4 days ago
For users who are upgrading from SNOW LEOPARD, IGNORE ALL THE ABOVE and ONLY
FOLLOW THESE EASY STEPS:
1. Download the Mavericks installer from the app store.
2. Copy the Mavericks installer to a separate hard drive (to avoid downloading
it again).
3. Click on the Mavericks installer icon from the dock to begin the install
process.
4. Once finished installing, download, and open Diskmaker X.
5. Follow the easy to follow message prompts from Diskmaker X (guide the app to
use your copy of the installer from your separate hard drive). After a few
minutes, you'll have a Mavericks installer ready to use! This installer can
also be used to do a clean install on any Mac that came with Snow Leopard!
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Barry Resnik32 days ago
I have made and used my bootable USB install drive, but am running into probs
with a Mac Mini. It ran 10.4, so I changed the version as detailed. This didn't
work, so I wiped the drive and tried to boot from the USB drive, but I get the
flashing folder. Starting up with option allows me to select the USB but I cant
get it to install. What small step am I missing?
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JohnnyBillabong34 days ago
I have an MBP 13", mid 2012. It's currently running OS X 10.8.5. This is the
way I want it. I do NOT want to upgrade my MBP to Mavericks.
However, I WOULD like an external boot drive -- I really don't care what's on
it, as long as I can boot my computer from it. So I have my 8GB flash drive all
erased and partitioned to be a boot drive according to one of the tutorials
here (GUID etc.)
Now I'm at the App Store Mavericks page. First of all, it doesn't say "Download" -- it
says "Upgrade." I do not, repeat NOT want some accident to upgrade this MBP to Mavericks.
If there is even a remote possibility that this whole process might mess with the system I have
now, I don't even want to try anything,
So I clicked on "Upgrade" and now I have a button that says "Install App." Well, I don't
want to install it. I just want to download it and install it on my flash drive. What exactly is going to
happen if I click on "Install App?"
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Dan Ballance33 days ago
Unrelated to your wanting to experiment with Mavericks, but still incredibly
important: ensure you have backed up your current hard drive image with Carbon
Copy Cloner or other similar imaging software. This is absolutely essential,
even if you never play around with Mavericks, because it gives you a bootable
image of your Mac as it was when you created the image. So, even if you
accidentally install Mavericks (or your hard drive gets messed up in some other
way) you have a backup plan (pun intended).
Now, if you click "Install App" on the OS X Mavericks page in the Mac App Store, it will
download the installer; that's what the Mac App Store means when it says "Install App."
It's just going to put the installer application in your Applications folder. It's not going to
autonomously hijack your Mac and slather Mavericks all over everything (i.e. install).
From there, you can still follow the above guide to create a bootable
Mavericks USB drive and boot into Mavericks using it. Performance won't be
amazing since you're passing all the OS data through a USB interface, but it
will be usable for you to play around with.
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Mr. House35 days ago
I have a 2012 macbook. I'm getting "command not found"
Any ideas?
sudo /Applications/Instal-l\ OS\ X
Mavericks.app/Conten-ts/Resources/createi-nstallmedia --volume
/Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Instal-l\ OS\ X\
Mavericks.app --nointeraction
Password:
sudo: /Applications/Instal-l OS X: command not found
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Christopher Johnson34 days ago
Your command appears mistyped, you need a \ after the X and before Mavericks
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djrobx64 days ago
Almost every guide I've seen suggests restoring BaseImage to the parent USB
Drive with Disk Utility. When I did this, the resulting stick would boot up
only until the spinning star showed up below the apple logo. I repeated
this 3 or 4 times, even using a command line version of the steps. Finally, I
found a post by someone suggesting that you partition the USB drive, then
restore BaseImage to the PARTITION (not the drive). That worked for me as
well.
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Jhonson Lee80 days ago
Ive a MacBook Pro 13" Retina Late 2013, I would keen to know whether the above
methods really works?
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caz22787 days ago
Hello, I'm going to be replacing the HDD inside my macbook pro with an
SSD and want to do a fresh install of Mavericks. So my question is, my
intention is to put the SDD in the macbook and use it as my primary
drive, would I be able to turn the SSD into a bootable drive as
described above, put it into my macbook, boot up from it, install
mavericks (essentially to the same drive im using as a bootable), and
then continue to use the SDD as my normal drive? Or is it best to use a
seperate USB as my bootable drive and then just install mavericks on a
completely empty SSD once I put it into the macbook (formatted to macos
extended journal, of course)?
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akabearded92 days ago
Thanks for help making a bootable! Question... Is there a way to swap in the
10.9.2 package making this a 10.9.2 bootable?
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MarcDraco98 days ago
Dan Frakes said
eyeless said
The created Mavericks USB installer also cannot boot new Retina MacBook Pros
(at least not yet). Right. That's explained in the article. Should also note
that this page often crashes in Safari (esp. if you try and copy the Terminal
code by trying to highlight and drag over the text ...). Alas, that's a Safari
bug.
It is - but you can get around in (in Safari) using the DOM - right click on the
offending piece of text and select "Inspect Element" - from there you can see
the HTML code and can (relatively) easily copy the entire line segment - which I'll
repeat here on the off chance this might work.
sudo /Applications/Instal-l\ OS\ X\
Mavericks.app/Conten-ts/Resources/createi-nstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Recovery --applicationpath
/Applications/Instal-l\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app --nointeraction
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Dan Frakes100 days ago
jcallows said
I tried this method and used the resulting flash drive on my late 2013 model
Macbook Pro with retina display but only got a screen showing a circle with a
slash through it.
Is there anyway I can create a bootable flash drive with Mavericks installer
for my Macbook Pro?
If you own Mavericks from the Mac App Store, downloading the latest version of
the installer (10.9.1) should let you make a working bootable installer. (The
original installer, 10.9.0, wouldn't work for your Mac, because the Mac is
newer than the OS, as explained in the article.
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jcallows100 days ago
I tried this method and used the resulting flash drive on my late 2013 model
Macbook Pro with retina display but only got a screen showing a circle with a
slash through it.
Is there anyway I can create a bootable flash drive with Mavericks installer
for my Macbook Pro?
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Dan Frakes106 days ago
leggdr said
Having updated with Mavericks yesterday I am sure I have the latest version.
Come to create a bootable install drive but there is no Install OS Mavericks in
the applications directory.
Any reason that you know of ???
I am a UK user
Did you install Mavericks without first moving (or copying) the installer out
of the Applications folder? If so, as explained in the article, the installer
deletes itself during the install process.
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leggdr106 days ago
Having updated with Mavericks yesterday I am sure I have the latest version.
Come to create a bootable install drive but there is no Install OS Mavericks in
the applications directory.
Any reason that you know of ???
I am a UK user
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eyeless111 days ago
eyeless said
Dan Frakes said
eyeless said Maybe you should mention that the Mavericks installer no longer downloads to the Application
folder?! It is now downloaded to an invisible volume, which you can find by right-clicking the Installer
(that auto-opens after download) in the Dock and then one can move or copy it to the Applications folder
and proceed. I haven't seen this behavior. I've downloaded Mavericksâ,-2;"even the
latest versionâ,¬-"dozens of times from the Mac App Store, and it always downloads
directly to my /Applications folder. Well it happened to me just yesterday, so thought it was the new
behavior ... strange, but hope it was only here. I had to re-download two times as it failed to complete
the download the first time ... hmmm. (OK, sorry I missed the notice about the new Retina Macs ... .)
/Jerry
Just a thought -- the thing that happened to me could perhaps happen if the computer
somehow thinks I already have downloaded installer ... I started the first download
before moving out the old installer, but as that download failed, I thought there should
not be a problem when the old Installer actually was removed, but maybe receipts
somewhere suggests it was not removed the "Apple way" (automatic after
install)?...
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eyeless111 days ago
Dan Frakes said
eyeless said
Maybe you should mention that the Mavericks installer no longer downloads to the Application
folder?! It is now downloaded to an invisible volume, which you can find by right-clicking the
Installer (that auto-opens after download) in the Dock and then one can move or copy it to the
Applications folder and proceed. I haven't seen this behavior. I've downloaded
Mavericksâ,&rdq-uo;even the latest versionâ,&rdquo-;dozens of times
from the Mac App Store, and it always downloads directly to my /Applications folder.
Well it happened to me just yesterday, so thought it was the new behavior ...
strange, but hope it was only here. I had to re-download two times as it failed
to complete the download the first time ... hmmm. (OK, sorry I missed the
notice about the new Retina Macs ... .) /Jerry
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Dan Frakes112 days ago
eyeless said
Maybe you should mention that the Mavericks installer no longer downloads to
the Application folder?! It is now downloaded to an invisible volume, which you
can find by right-clicking the Installer (that auto-opens after download) in
the Dock and then one can move or copy it to the Applications folder and
proceed.
I haven't seen this behavior. I've downloaded Maverickseven the latest
versiondozens of times from the Mac App Store, and it always downloads directly
to my /Applications folder.
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Dan Frakes112 days ago
eyeless said
The created Mavericks USB installer also cannot boot new Retina MacBook Pros
(at least not yet).
Right. That's explained in the article.
Should also note that this page often crashes in Safari (esp. if you try and
copy the Terminal code by trying to highlight and drag over the text ...).
Alas, that's a Safari bug.
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Dan Frakes112 days ago
skyhorsemedia said
My experience exactly parallels that of "grumpie". Having completed the
creation of the boot disk using the steps you describe for Disk Utility (which I have to
use, since I began with Snow Leopard), my 2008 MacBook Pro does not see the external
drive as a boot drive. Perhaps you could walk through the steps again, and if possible,
offer a correction for steps #8 and #16. I think there may be many of your readers who
are having the same frustration. I appreciate your efforts to help us.
For what it's worth, the steps in the article work as expected for me (and for
a good number of other people). I haven't had a chance to test why it's not
working for a few people, but I'll try to do so.
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eyeless112 days ago
eyeless said Maybe you should mention that the Mavericks installer no longer
downloads to the Application folder?! It is now downloaded to an invisible
volume, which you can find by right-clicking the Installer (that auto-opens
after download) in the Dock and then one can move or copy it to the
Applications folder and proceed.
The created Mavericks USB installer also cannot boot new Retina MacBook Pros
(at least not yet).
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eyeless112 days ago
eyeless said Maybe you should mention that the Mavericks installer no longer
downloads to the Application folder?! It is now downloaded to an invisible
volume, which you can find by right-clicking the Installer (that auto-opens
after download) in the Dock and then one can move or copy it to the
Applications folder and proceed.
Should also note that this page often crashes in Safari (esp. if you try and
copy the Terminal code by trying to highlight and drag over the text ...).
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eyeless112 days ago
Maybe you should mention that the Mavericks installer no longer downloads to
the Application folder?! It is now downloaded to an invisible volume, which you
can find by right-clicking the Installer (that auto-opens after download) in
the Dock and then one can move or copy it to the Applications folder and
proceed.
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HaniiPuppy118 days ago
I had the same problem as Grumpie and Skyhorsemedia. I just thought I'd drop my
solution for anyone else reading.
I used Onyx to enable the viewing of hidden files and folders (can also be
Tinkertool), then the BaseSystem.dmg was visible. I couldn't drag it into the
field from the finder, but what I could do was drag it onto my desktop to make
a copy, which I was then able to drag across without hassle.
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skyhorsemedia118 days ago
My experience exactly parallels that of "grumpie". Having completed the
creation of the boot disk using the steps you describe for Disk Utility (which I have to
use, since I began with Snow Leopard), my 2008 MacBook Pro does not see the external
drive as a boot drive. Perhaps you could walk through the steps again, and if possible,
offer a correction for steps #8 and #16. I think there may be many of your readers who
are having the same frustration. I appreciate your efforts to help us.
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grumpie120 days ago
Thanks for the great article on Bootable Mavericks. I have just sufficient
computer knowledge to be a real menace.
Just upgraded to an iMac; setup Assistant worked flawlessly (Didn't need any
Backup, but still glad I had them). Now trying to get my late 2009 MacBook Pro (SN
10.6.8) into a condition for my teen granddaughter to use. Used the Disk Utility
method with a USB, and all went well until #8 Drag the BaseSystem.dmg icon into the
Source field on the right (if it isn’t already there).
This item would NOT Drag & Drop. BaseSystem.dmg (underneath) WOULD Drag & Drop,
so I used that.
All went fine until 16 Eject the OS X Install ESD volume. The Eject button
actually OPENED it in a new Finder.
Ignored that & 17 (re-named later).
Shut down the MBP & re-booted with the (Install?) USB plugged in. Holding down Option
ONLY brings up "EFI Boot". . Also my external CCC of the Internal drive works on
Option-Boot.
Because of my propensity to foul things up, I was wondering if you could
comment?
Yes, I know I've procrastinated to long, but when I saw the MBP 2009 was the
earliest that Mavericks would support; it was time!
Now have to get used to scrolling the wrong way & a Magic Mouse that performs
all kinds of tricks my fat fingers didn't intend.
Keep up the good work.
Ciao,
Nik
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Dan Frakes125 days ago
jimfesq said
Dan Frakes said
jimfesq said
Chatted with Apple tech. He stated that Apple did not support the installation
of Mavericks on external drives.
Completely untrue. There's even a button in the installer to show other drives
so you can choose one for installation. There's something else going on with
your installation.
Get message "OS X Mavericks cannot be installed on this computer" when I try to
install it.
Unfortunately, it's difficult to diagnose such issues remotely. You should of
course run Disk Utility's Verify Disk function on the destination drive to make
sure it doesn't have any problems, and, as instructed in our main installation
article, you should verify that the drive is formatted properly to be used as a
Mavericks startup drive. But the issue is definitely not that Mavericks can't
be installed on external drives.
end excerpt.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Jul 16, 2014, at 12:05 PM, Krister Ekstrom <kris...@kristersplace.com> wrote:
Hi,
Umm no, i haven't got the instructions for making a usb or hard drive
installation i think, so if you could tell me how to do this i'd be grateful.
/Krister
16 jul 2014 kl. 19:46 skrev Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com>:
Hi,
You can use the same method has you would use to create the bootable USB
stick but choose the external HD as the target instead. I haven't been
following this thread closely so if the instructions for the USB stick aren't
readily available, let me know and I'll round things up for you.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Jul 16, 2014, at 10:37 AM, Krister Ekstrom <kris...@kristersplace.com> wrote:
Hey, First of all, i'm sorry for asking so many stupid and probably obvious
questions. I shouldn't be needing to do that since i've owned a Mac for at
least 6 years, but then again i haven't done a clean install ever so it's
probably high time to do it.:-) Anyway my question now is as follows: I don't
have a thumb drive that big, but i happen to have an external smallish hard
drive that can work on USB would that work and if so, what's the steps to make
an installer on that hard drive?
/Krister
16 jul 2014 kl. 17:48 skrev Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com>:
This is why I suggested making an installer on a thumb drive. I did that, and
I've used it several times on different Macs to quickly upgrade or re-install
the OS. It's fast, local, and works perfectly with speech.
On Jul 16, 2014, at 10:35 AM, Krister Ekstrom <kris...@kristersplace.com> wrote:
Hi, do i understand this correctly that after choice of wifi, VO can be used? I
tried the cmd+option+R command thinking i could use speech directly but that
didn't work so i assume you have to get past the selection of available wifi
networks right?
/Krister
16 jul 2014 kl. 16:27 skrev Sabahattin Gucukoglu <listse...@me.com>:
To get to Internet Recovery, press Command+Option+R at the chime after power on.
You may need sighted help to pick from available wi-fi networks from which to
boot. I recommend using Ethernet (including Thunderbolt/USB adaptors from
Apple) as these require no sighted help.
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