Several tools and answers exist to help you create bootable USB drives, some are specific to PC/MBR booting (Bootcamp) where Macs and newer PCs since Windows 8 require/support UEFI booting. Once this task is completed, you can install Mac OS X Lion from this USB drive either when logged in, or during boot keep the OPTION (or ALT) key pressed to be able to select the USB drive to boot from. iso image, with which you will make the LiveUSB. # Replace with your file name and it will create the IMG fileĭmg2img -i "$.iso" # you want to specify the filenames yourself.
The extension will be replaced where necessary unless In the terminal enter the following commands or paste the script with the necessary modifications: # Replace "OriginalFile.dmg" with the filename including the extension iso file, you just need to replace the extension. img file and this file will have the same format as an. To install open a terminal and enter this command: sudo apt-get install dmg2img Convert the Image Install DMG2IMGĭMG2IMG ( 1, 2) will convert the. dmg file, so you must to convert this file into. This can damage the contents, making the app unusable if it were to be loaded on a real Mac.As you want to create a LiveUSB you need a. Do not modify any of the files inside of the 'Install OS X Mavericks.app' folder. You can create a USB Flash drive using Windows TransMac (right-click on USB drive - Restore with Disk Image) and then if it contains a HFS single partition. You can put it on a USB drive if you'd like to move the application itself to another working Mac. Unzip this file and locate the folder titled 'Install OS X Mavericks.app' in the extracted contents.
You'll see the zip file titled 'Install OS X ' Navigate to where you downloaded this file. From here, you can either install OS X Mavericks (if you're downloading on an old system), or create a bootable OS X Mavericks install USB (if you need to upgrade an old system) Select the 'Install OS X Mavericks' app and move it to your Applications folder. A new window will open containing the contents of the extracted zip file. It’s easy enough to upgrade to OS X El Capitan from the App Store, but downloading the software multiple times isn’t a great idea if you have more than one Mac, or a Hackintosh. Disk Utility will restore the OS X Install DVD or disk image to the USB drive this process may take anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour. At the bottom right-hand corner of the screen and click the Restore button. Drag-and-drop the Mac OS X Install Drive disk into the Source box.
You'll see a zip file titled 'Install OS X ' as well as some files from this Internet Archive entry, like the pictures. Drag-and-drop the USB drive's partition into the Destination box. Right click (or secondary click) on the file and select 'Show Package Contents' Select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as the format. Name or rename the drive to a title that is indicative of what is insidefor example, Mac Boot Manager. The Erase button will bring up new fields for Name, Format, and Scheme. (This file will have an image of a slanted cross on it) Select your USB, then click on the Erase button at the top. Click once on (select) the downloaded file, ' install-os-x-mavericks.app' if you downloaded this to Downloads, open Finder and go to the Downloads folder) Open Finder and navigate to your download location. For some reason, this downloads as a 'damaged'.