If you don't want to use Diskmaker X for some reason, poster tywebb13 on the MacRumors forums has your hookup. The finished Mavericks boot drive, which also includes OS X's handy startup utilities. The process is outlined in screenshots below. 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. It will then ask you where you want to copy the files-click "An 8GB USB thumb drive" if you have a single drive to use, or "Another kind of disk" to use a partition on a larger drive or some other kind of external drive. This isn't going to be a problem for any Mac that can actually install Mavericks, but if you'd rather use a disc than a USB drive, you're apparently out of luck.Īnyway, select OS X 10.9 in Diskmaker X, and the app should automatically find the copy you've downloaded to your Applications folder, but clicking "Use another copy" will let you browse the drive if you happen to have moved it. One note of caution: Diskmaker X no longer supports creating OS X install DVDs. It's still possible to create a disk manually using a Terminal command (which we'll go into momentarily), but Diskmaker X presents an easy GUI-based way to do it that is less intimidating to most people. The app can currently make installers for OS X 10.7, 10.8, and 10.9, but we're only interested in Mavericks today.ĭiskmaker X has actually been around since the days of OS X 10.7 (it was previously known as Lion Diskmaker), but it's more important now because Apple has made alterations to the installer that prevent the old Disk Utility method from working. Once you've obtained all of the necessary materials, install the Diskmaker X app to your Applications folder.
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