- Usb Installer Bootable Os X Yosemite 10.10.5 For Mac
- Usb Installer Bootable Os X Yosemite 10.10.5 For Mac Download
Sep 24, 2018 - You don't need a bootable installer to install macOS, but it can be useful. After downloading the installer, connect the USB flash drive or other.
I know you will be eager to try the newly released OS X Yosemite 10.10. If you are already download the Yosemite installer app from the App Store, then proceed to the bootable usb creation steps, otherwise download yosemite installer first.
After downloading the app, you will need the following. A USB drive with minimum 8GB 2. A Mac running machine. The downloaded OS X Yosemite 10.10.app file (saved in the folder '/Applications/') Now you are all set for making the bootable USB drive of OS X Yosemite. Note: In this post, the USB storage name is 'SANDISK', and the Yosemite installer App file is reside in the folder as '/Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app' Step 1.
First Format the USB drive to 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)' for this, Connect the USB drive to your existing Mac and goto 'Disk Utility' and select the USB drive and under the 'Erase' tab, you can format the drive. Open the application 'Terminal' and run the following command (Better copy and paste the command and edit the file path and USB drive path). Sudo /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia -volume /Volumes/SANDISK -applicationpath /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app -nointeraction This will make the USB drive a Yosemite bootable installer. You should change the USB drive name and the path of Yosemite installer app in your command. It may take 15 to 20 minutes depending on your USB data read/write speed.
When the terminal says 'Done' you are all done and ready to install and try the Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10. Thanks for reading, and please leave your comments below.:D.
Usb Installer Bootable Os X Yosemite 10.10.5 For Mac
If you like to try Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite as a separate installation, then you must have an installer disk which is bootable to install the OS. Currently Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite is available through Apple App store only. It can be downloaded through App store then used to upgrade the existing Mac OS X Mavericks. Most of us definitely will not like to update the current installation since OS X 10.10 still a beta release. Follow this simple steps to create bootable Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite USB installer disk which can boot Mac hardware and any Hackintosh. There are few methods available to create a bootable USB disk from the Yosemite App installer which was downloaded through Apple app store, but here I mention the easiest and quickest way. Since the Apple app store needs to be used for downloading OS X 10.10 beta from official website, you must have a working Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks Operating System, it can be on Apple hardware or any.
Usb Installer Bootable Os X Yosemite 10.10.5 For Mac Download
Go to the OS X 10.10. It’s around 5.7 GB size.
Once you have downloaded successfully, by default it will go under /Applications as shown below. Easy Steps to Create Bootable Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite USB Disk This method will use a built-in UNIX command in Mac OS X (from Lion, Mountain Lion and Mavericks OS only), createinstallmedia. It works fine with current public beta release of Mac OS X 10.10 and I’m sure with future beta and final releases too. 1) Make sure you have downloaded the Yosemite installer by app store and its located under Applications ( as shown in above screenshot) 2) You must have a 8GB (or more) USB disk. It should be formatted and named as ‘Untitled’.
As this method uses a terminal command to create a bootable disk, the below command assumes that your USB disk is named as ‘Untitled’. 3) Type below command in terminal. ‘Terminal’ is located under /Application/Utilities. Need to provide root-level password to proceed the command. Below command will erase the data in USB disk.
Sudo /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite Beta.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia –volume /Volumes/Untitled –applicationpath /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite Beta.app –nointeraction.