Hi I'm Serge Siou and welcome to MacStudioA.
In this Episode I'll be demonstrating Method 2 on How to Create A Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9
USB Boot Disk in just 3 Easy Steps.
Sooooooo...Let's Get Started
"What You'll need"
An Intel Based Mac System.
At least an 8 Gigabytes USB Disk (Make sure to make a backup as all data will
be erased).
And finally, a downloaded copy of the Official Public Release of OS X Mavericks 10.9 available
for free from the Mac App Store.
Make sure that you have made a backup of your
hard drive just in case something goes wrong.
If you are like me and have Two User ID's on your Mac, One as Standard user and the
other as Administrator, make sure to
use Your Administrator Account before proceeding.
With all that out of the way it's time to start.
STEP 1: Download OS X Mavericks 10.9 from the Mac App Store.Approximately 5.29 Gigabytes.
After the download is complete, a pop up windows will appear, Don't Press Continue but instead
quit the install
procedure as shown here.
By default, the download is located in the Applications Folder.
STEP 2: Insert Your USB Disk in an available socket and note the Name.
STEP 3: The Third and Final part:
Prior to the Official Public release of Mavericks, from the Developer Preview versions to the
Official Release, the method
used to create a Mavericks USB Boot Disk was as demonstrated on my video tutorial Titled
- Method 1: How To Create a Mac
OS X Mavericks 10.9 USB Boot Disk.
But as of October 22nd 2013, things have changed, Apple has included a cool tool called createinstallmedia
in the Public
Release of the Mavericks Installer, which makes creating a USB Boot disk a lot easier,
basically without the need of using
Disk Utility, deleting of file and moving any folder as demonstrated in Method 1 of my video.
In order to create the Mavericks USB Boot Disk, you have To execute the createinstallmedia
Tool from Terminal
To find out how to use it, enter the following one line code in Terminal:
I'll just copy and paste it in terminal. This basically shows you the commands to add
to the one line code in order to create the Mavericks Boot Disk
To save you time, I have already prepared the one line command code that I used and
have included it in the video
description below. All you need to do is copy and paste the command in a txt document
and edit it by replacing
"NameOfYourUSB" with that of yours, in my case it's MacStudioA...it's that simple.
Now simply copy and past the edited version of the command code in Terminal..As shown here.
Note: As mentioned before, the Entire Command
Code has To Be Entered On One Line... Press Enter to Continue.
You will now need to enter your Admin Password to execute the command (for security reasons,
your password is not shown as
you type it)...after entering your password, press enter and the Creation of your OS X
USB Boot Disk will begin.
The process for me took 20 minutes...I'll just time lapse from here.
And That's All Folks...OS X Mavericks USB Boot Disk has been created.
You now have a Second Method for Creating a Mac OS X Mavericks USB Boot Disk...
Which Methods you prefer to use is entirely up to you, Both will lead to the same end
result, and that is... Both Methods Creates a Mac OS X Mavericks
USB Boot Disk, basically, use whichever Methods you feel comfortable with.
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