Hello Hank, Here’s how to do what you want using the terminal.
Download OS X Yosemite Prepare your USB Flash Drive. To format the USB drive open Disk Utility. Plug the drive in into your Mac. Select the USB Flash drive from the table in Disk Utility. Select the “Erase” tab. Make sure the Format is set to Mac OS Extended (Journaled). As for the name, leave it as “Untitled”. Finally click the Erase tab. Terminal Command Simply copy and paste this into Terminal and press the Return key: sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app --nointeraction Since the above command uses the sudo attribute you will be required to enter your password to start the process. Once the process starts you will see this in Terminal: Erasing Disk: 0%… 10%… 20%…100%… Copying installer files to disk… Copy complete. Making disk bootable… Copying boot files… Copy complete. Done. This process can take a while since it’s copying gigabytes of data over. Leave it alone and let it do its thing. This worked for me today and I’ve installed Yosemite from the USB drive. Cheers, Anne > On 17 Oct 2014, at 19:13, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona > <hank.smith...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I saw a beta for 10.10 on there website > I downloaded it but didn't get a chance to try it. > > On 10/16/2014 11:39 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: >> Hi guys. Has anyone else tried making a bootable copy of Yosemite with Disk >> Maker X? Every time I try to make one, I get the following error: >> Finder got an error: Can’t set disk "Install OS X Yosemite" to "OS X >> Yosemite Install Disk". (-10006) >> This is with Disk Maker X Version 4B3 and OS X Yosemite. Has anyone else >> gotten this as well? I'm not good with terminal so making the bootable drive >> through that isn't an option unless someone wants to Skype or FaceTime me >> and walk me through the steps. If so, email me off list and I'll provide my >> details. Thanks. >> >> Shawn >> Sent From My White MacBook >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
