Two Methods of Creating a Bootable Mavericks Installer

If you would like to have a physical backup of the OS X Mavericks installer, our guide will show you how to create it. That's all well and good for many Mac users, and very convenient as well, but we like to have a physical copy of the installer, just in case we need to reinstall the OS or wish to install it on another Mac we own, without going through the download process again. With just a click or two, you can download and install the software from the online store.Īs with previous downloadable OS X installers, this one assumes that you're ready to go it launches the OS X Mavericks installation app as soon as the download is complete. This has several advantages, the biggest of which is almost immediate delivery.

OS X Mavericks is the third version of OS X to be sold primarily as a download from the Mac App Store. hdiutil burn ~/Desktop/DiskImageFile.iso.

Enter the following command ( Example: File Path “Desktop” File “DiskImageFile.iso”):.

Open the Terminal application ( Applications > Utilities > Terminal.app).

iso somewhere easy to locate like your desktop iso with MacOS and Mac OS X via hdiutil in the Terminal application: Common verbs include attach, detach, verify, create, convert, and compact. Hdiutil uses the DiskImages framework to manipulate disk images. Luckily I remembered that good ole Terminal is more than capable of burning an ISO via hdiutil. Since I was using an older Mac with OS X 10.11 there was no option to simply burn the ISO from Disk Utility as I would normally do. I was working on an older Mac the other day and needed to create a Windows 10 Recovery Disc via an ISO.

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