I have mavericks, Yosemite and el capitan on a 32 gig usb, Mavericks is around 6.5 gig Yosemite is around 6.5 gig and el capitan I think I allowed around 7gig For the partitions they are installed to.
-----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of E.T. Sent: Saturday, 2 April 2016 5:10 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Startup disk not working. 8 is plenty. I have never used terminal for this as DiskMaker X makes the process a painless one. Its a free app. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 4/1/2016 9:06 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > Hi! > I am about to do a reinstall of El Capitan and i have created a bootable USB > drive which i done from the command line. > So i go to startup disk in system prefs and there’s only one disk to boot > from and thats my mac mini disk and its dimmed. > I can not seem to find the bootable osx installation disk. > So now i am stumped. > I tried to boot it from the recovery partition and select startup disk from > there but no go. > The usb stick is an 8 gb sandisk cruzer ultrablade. > Maybe i should try a bigger one. > /A > -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.