Make A Mavericks Bootable Usb
Create mavericks 10 9 2 usb installer with only windows 8 1 transmac bootdiskutility chameleon bs and 7zip no mac needed.
Make a mavericks bootable usb. Prepare a usb flash drive must be 8gb or larger plug the usb drive in to your mac and open disk utility found under applications utilities in finder select the usb drive. Using a new feature called createinstallmedia built into the mavericks installer itself. Now that apple has released os x 10 9 mavericks you might want to consider creating a usb install drive for clean installs and future use.
Connect the usb flash drive or other volume that you re using for the bootable installer. Preparing usb drive for bootable os x mavericks. In april i wrote an article on techrepublic about how to create a bootable usb to install os x.
There are three ways you can create a bootable os x install drive. Select guid partition table in the popup box and click ok and click apply to the disk utility. Now select the usb drive from the left side menu and select partition tab and choose 1 partition.
Attach the usb drive to the mac and launch disk utility. Os x mavericks is available in the mac app store now but it s only an upgrade but if you want to do a clean install you ll need to manually burn an installation flash drive. Type or paste one of the following commands in terminal.
Make sure that it has at least 12gb of available storage and is formatted as mac os extended. Here s how to do it. Then click options button.
Select the erase tab. Or using the third. How to create a bootable os x mavericks usb install drive.
Using this tutorial y. Mavericks can be downloaded directly from apple here make sure you leave the file in the default download location 2. Plug in the usb drive to the mac and launch disk utility.
Apple no longer supply a bootable usb flash drive for their newest osx mavericks operating system just as they did with mountain lion. Choose the usb drive from the left side menu click the partition tab select 1 partition from the drop down menu and then click the options button to select guid as the partition type click ok then click apply.
