Hi! Thanks Anne! I’m now a owner of a Bootable USB Yosemite drive! Me not being familiar with Terminal: following these instructions worked as stated! Cheers Colin
On 17 Oct 2014, at 21:52, Anne Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Hank, > > Here’s how to do what you want using the terminal. > > Download OS X Yosemite > Prepare your USB Flash Drive. > > To format the USB drive open Disk Utility. Plug the drive in into your Mac. > > Select the USB Flash drive from the table in Disk Utility. > Select the “Erase” tab. > Make sure the Format is set to Mac OS Extended (Journaled). > As for the name, leave it as “Untitled”. > Finally click the Erase tab. > > Terminal Command > > Simply copy and paste this into Terminal and press the Return key: > > sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ > Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled > --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app --nointeraction > > Since the above command uses the sudo attribute you will be required to enter > your password to start the process. > > Once the process starts you will see this in Terminal: > > Erasing Disk: 0%… 10%… 20%…100%… > Copying installer files to disk… > Copy complete. > Making disk bootable… > Copying boot files… > Copy complete. > Done. > > This process can take a while since it’s copying gigabytes of data over. > Leave it alone and let it do its thing. > > This worked for me today and I’ve installed Yosemite from the USB drive. > > Cheers, > > Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
