Thank you David, you saved me time and money. I have made a donation to show my gratitude for everything you do for the community. If the destination drive has additional partitions, just drag the partition you want to use as your bootable installer volume. The Hardest Way: Do Everything Manually If you don't want to use DiskMaker X or Terminal commands, this is another option for you. Of course, the speed is dependent on the device you're copying to.
You can perform the Disk Utility procedure entirely in Terminal. Delete the Packages alias by right-clicking the file and selecting Move to Trash from the context menu Figure M. I did the usb installation, i installed on the hard drive and when i tried to boot from hdd the boot process stops and the computer reboots. . Talk about the long way of achieving this! Choose your disk or partition from the list that appears, verify that you'd like to have the disk or partition erased, and then wait for the files to copy over. If it's not there, or you're not sure of its name, seethe previous section of this guide for details on the installer file name, and how to download the needed file.
Carry on from Step 8. The instructions I found that worked, using Disk Utility, were located at and. Here's what you need to get started. Open the Terminal app, type or copy and paste the following command, and then press Return: defaults write com. To start out, download the newest version of DiskMaker X from. Things have proceeded remarkably smoothly since version 10.
You can use Disk Utility's Restore screen to create a bootable Yosemite installer drive. Do not interrupt the Terminal or eject the flash drive during the process. Open up Disk Utility and do the following. This will wipe all files stored on your startup hard drive. I was hoping to make myself a bootable installer of Yosemite but I cannot manage to find anywhere to download it.
It's a lot more complicated, but gets the job done. Do this before you upgrade, because after that the Install file is deleted. The process is the same, regardless of the destination. However, by my experience, it is far shorter than what is stated by the progress bar Figure L. Once it is complete, quit Disk Utility. The installer will delete itself when you install the operating system, but it can be re-downloaded if necessary.
It you decide to install beta software, you should do so on a sanitized, secondary device that meets to minimize issues. This means that if you moved it before installing Yosemite, you need to move it back before making your installer disk. You can use any in size or larger. Click Apply and confirm the partitioning procedure. After you get it in there, just hit the Enter key.
The Terminal commands I provide here assume the drive is named Untitled. Type y and press Return. Therefore, make sure there is nothing important on your flash drive before you continue with the following steps. Enter the password and hit Enter. It should take less than a minute to copy over. Only a couple things left to copy over. And we're almost done now.
Macworld also has bootable-install-drive instructions for , , and. A verification prompt will appear. It will then begin copying all of the needed files. The only-slightly-less-easy way If you don't want to use Diskmaker X, Apple has actually included a terminal command that can create an install disk for you. Step 5: Move the Packages Folder Over to Your Drive Go ahead and open the System folder. Of course I have never actually needed to do that, but I've had the option.