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Sep 16, 2024 · Lion 10.7. Double-click the .dmg file to open it and see the package (.pkg) file within. Double-click the .pkg file, then follow the onscreen instructions to install the macOS installer into your Applications folder. Open your Applications folder and double-click the macOS installer, named Install [Version Name].
Sep 16, 2024 · Select Install macOS (or Install OS X) from the Utilities window, then click Continue and follow the onscreen instructions. Learn more If the Mac you're using to create the bootable installer is using macOS Sierra or earlier, append --applicationpath to your command, followed by the appropriate installer path, similar to what is shown at the end of the command for El Capitan.
Sep 6, 2020 · The installation window does not install El Capitan, if you read the text it says it. will take 7MBs of disk space, no operating system takes up so little room, and why . would it take up only 7MBs of space when the initial download was 6.2GBs. By running the installation you are actually creating the Install OS X El Capitan.app
- Here is the official Apple article on how to create a bootable macOS USB installer: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372 You can use a bootable...
- You downloaded the correct full installer contained in the InstallMacOSX.dmg. When you open that to the InstallMacOSX.pkg you then open that and yo...
- @Eau Thank you, I poked around the 'net after posting here and found instructions on: creatinstallmedia via Terminal So shall use that to have on a...
- @HW Thank you. InstallMacOSX.dmg does not reside on the computer that has Install OS X El Capitan.app within it's application folder. Can I assume...
- As long as the "OS X El Capitan.app" is complete and there is no corruption, then it should be usable to make a USB installer. The .dmg file is not...
- Installer should be ok, just checked it is 6GB+ Plan to put on an external HD partition. Many Thanks too ALL
- I have given you the full instructions above, have you read them.
Oct 1, 2024 · Restart the Mac from the bootable installer while holding down the Option key. Select the installer on the USB drive and press Return. If installing to startup drive, select Disk Utility > Continue. Select the drive and choose Erase. Confirm Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) is selected. Select Erase and quit Disk Utility.
Sep 30, 2015 · OK, now you can click that Continue button in the installer window. (If the installer isn’t running, go to your Applications folder and double click the Install OS X El Capitan app.) You’ll be ...
Oct 1, 2015 · Open the Applications folder, press Command+A to select all apps, then press Command+C. Now open up a text editor and press Command+V to paste a list of application names, and save this list ...
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Sep 30, 2015 · 1: Rename the USB Flash Drive to Become the OS X El Capitan Bootable Installer. The next thing you’ll want to do is rename the target volume that you wish to turn into a bootable installer drive, in this case an external USB flash drive. To avoid any confusion, we’re naming the USB drive to “ElCapInstaller” (without the quotations ...
