Not as complicated as it looks. its pretty easy and i have done this for both lion and mountain lion installers.
its just mounting and copying. On 25-Oct-2013, at 1:32 PM, Vishal Sheth wrote: > Too complicated. I think if you run fire installing by pressing Apple key you > then get option to create a bootable drive. Need to Google. > > Vishal Sheth > Sent From My HTC ONE > > On Oct 25, 2013 1:28 PM, "Vinit Gupta" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Harpal, > > Once you’ve downloaded Mavericks, find the installer on your Mac. It’s called > Install OS X Mavericks.app and it should have been downloaded to your main > Applications folder (/Applications). > Right-click (or Control+click) the installer, and choose Show Package > Contents from the resulting contextual menu. > In the folder that appears, open Contents, then open Shared Support; you’ll > see a disk image file called InstallESD.dmg. > Double-click InstallESD.dmg in the Finder to mount its volume. That volume > will appear in the Finder as OS X Install ESD. > The file you want to get to is actually another disk image inside OS X > Install ESD called BaseSystem.dmg. Unfortunately, BaseSystem.dmg is > invisible, and because this is a read-only volume, you can’t make > BaseSystem.dmg visible. Instead, you’ll mount it using Terminal, which makes > it visible in Disk Utility. Open the Terminal app (in > /Application/Utilities), and then type open /Volumes/OS\ X\ Install\ > ESD/BaseSystem.dmg and press Return. > Launch Disk Utility (in /Applications/Utilities). You'll see both > InstallESD.dmg (with its mounted volume, OS X Install ESD, below it) and > BaseSystem.dmg (with its mounted volume, OS X Base System, below it) in the > volumes list on the left. > Select BaseSystem.dmg (not OS X Base System) in Disk Utility’s sidebar, and > then click the Restore button in the main part of the window. > Drag the BaseSystem.dmg icon into the Source field on the right (if it isn’t > already there). > Connect to your Mac the properly formatted hard drive or flash drive you want > to use for your bootable Mavericks installer. > In Disk Utility, find this destination drive in the left sidebar. You may see > a couple partitions under the drive: one named EFI and another with the > actual drive name. Drag the latter—the one with the drive name—into the > Destination field on the right. (If the destination drive has additional > partitions, just drag the partition you want to use as your bootable > installer volume.) > Warning: This step will erase the destination drive or partition, so make > sure it doesn’t contain any valuable data. Click Restore, and then click > Erase in the dialog box that appears; if prompted, enter an admin-level > username and password. > Wait for the restore procedure to finish, which should take just a few > minutes. > In Disk Utility, select BaseSystem.dmg on the left (not OS X Base System) and > click the Eject button in the toolbar. This action unmounts the disk image > named OS X Base System. (If you don’t do this, you have two mounted volumes > named OS X Base System—the mounted disk image and your destination > drive—which makes the next step more confusing.) > Open the destination drive—the one you’re using for your bootable install > drive, which has been renamed OS X Base System. Inside that drive, open the > System folder, and then open the Installation folder. You’ll see an alias > called Packages. Delete that alias. > Open the mounted OS X Install ESD volume, and you’ll see only a folder called > Packages. Drag that folder into the Installation folder on your destination > drive. (You're basically replacing the deleted Packages alias with this > Packages folder.) The folder is about 4.8GB in size, so the copy will take a > bit of time, especially if you’re copying to a slow thumb drive. > Eject the OS X Install ESD volume. > http://www.macworld.com/article/2056561/how-to-make-a-bootable-mavericks-install-drive.html > > Vinit > On 25-Oct-2013, at 1:18 PM, Harpal Singh Selhi wrote: > >> Dear Vinit, >> >> How to copy Installer on a thumb drive >> >> Regards >> >> Harpal >> >> >> Dr Harpal Singh Selhi >> Associate Prof >> Department of Orthopedic Surgery, >> DMC & Hospital, Ludhiana. >> >> Resi: >> 527-L, Model Town, >> Ludhiana-141002 >> Punjab (INDIA) >> +91-9815022527 >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Vinit Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: >> Also if u have more than one mac get the installer on a thumb drive before u >> start the installation so that u dont need to download again. >> >> >> Vvinit Guptaa >> BalajiTex >> 09820188941 >> >> Sent from my iPhone 5 >> >> On 25-Oct-2013, at 11:30 am, LM-China off <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi , >>> >>> Please go to App Store on your laptop >>> >>> (Top left apple logo , drop down App store ) >>> >>> You will see it there in featured . >>> >>> Download and you are done . >>> >>> It does the rest >>> >>> Suggest , u do a back up just in case it fails after restart while >>> installing Mavericks >>> >>> >>> Regards >>> Nik >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Harpal Selhi <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I have MacAir, how do I install mavericks or should I upgrade? how? >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Harpal >>> >>> Next time you are driving, keep this in mind: >>> >>> "Honk if you love Jesus, text if you want to meet him!" >>> >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On 24-Oct-2013, at 12:39, Vinit Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Iwork is free for new mac buyers. Recommended ram for mac to run mavericks >>>> smoothly is 4 gb. >>>> >>>> Vvinit Guptaa >>>> BalajiTex >>>> 09820188941 >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone 5 >>>> >>>>> On 23-Oct-2013, at 9:00 pm, Tejas Sheth_Apical <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi i am using MacBook Pro with 10.7.2 / 2 GB >>>>> >>>>> If I download Mavericks will it get slower? >>>>> >>>>> And will iWorks be FREE only once I download Mavericks? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Best Regards, >>>>> Tejas Sheth >>>>> >>>>> [email protected] | +91-22-24094860 | +91-22-24037376 | >>>>> +91-9821349177 | www.apical.in >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> On 23-Oct-2013, at 7:28 PM, Sachin Motwani wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Took just 25 mins >>>>>> >>>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>>> >>>>>>> On Oct 23, 2013, at 5:32 PM, Vishal Sheth <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Mavericks is 5.29GB. 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