1- Apple's file system is not FATxx at all. It is specific to Apple macOS systems. macOS has the ability to read NTFS, and read/write to FAT16, FAT32, and ExFAT formatted volumes as well as the native macOS file system format.
1a- Thumb drives and other flash drive plug devices can be formatted in macOS native or various FATxx formats. 2- The macOS operating system installer is intended to be run from the system boot up drive, installed in the Applications folder, for generations of macOS past v10.11. It's always best to put the installer in the Applications folder on your boot drive. G > On Nov 19, 2016, at 8:53 AM, David J Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks John. Maybe what i saw was if i was going to run the 10.11 from > the external i had to do its as a straight Mac format. > ?? > > Dave > >> On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 11:31 AM, John <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 11/19/2016 10:43 AM, David J Brooks wrote: >>> >>> I'm going to copy my install file for 10.11 to a jump drive. Should it >>> be formatted starchily for Mac or with the msdos format be ok. I can >>> do the mac format no problem but i thought i saw some were that you >>> had to do some sort of GUDE ?? set up and now i cannot find anything >>> about that. >>> >>> Dave >>> >> >> Windoze should let you format it FAT32 & I'm pretty sure that's what >> Apple uses for the Mac. That's how I formatted the thumb drive when I >> upgraded my Mac Mini. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
