Yosemite Bootable Usb Download

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Jun 05, 2014 The best thing to do is download it once and create a bootable install USB drive from the file for all of your Macs. Apple released the new Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite in the Mac App Store for everyone to download and install for free on October 16th, 2014, but downloading a 5+ GB file for each of your computers will. Oct 18, 2014 8GB or ‘Greater’ USB ‘Install OS X Yosemite.zip’ file downloaded from Mac Store (Download from here) Now, let’s move to the actual tutorial to create bootable OS X Yosemite USB, Connect your USB drive with Mac. Start ‘Disk Utility’. Select USB drive from the left sidebar. Click on ‘Erase’ tab from right. Now, click on ‘Erase.

It can be quite easy making an update to the OSX 10.10 Yosemite from the Mac App store for one computer, but when it comes to making updates for several Macs, or even doing a fresh install, you might find it really stressful having to make those updates separately. One way to save yourself the hassle is grabbing the Mac update on a USB thumb drive and installing the update using same drive on all your Macs.

It is important to note that running the Yosemite update on your Mac before following the below procedures would erase the installer from your Applications folder. So it is necessary you firstly perform this tutorial using any of the below methods, unless you wish to download a fresh copy of the update again from the app store. Let’s move on to the tutorial.

Oct 18, 2014 8GB or ‘Greater’ USB ‘Install OS X Yosemite.zip’ file downloaded from Mac Store (Download from here) Now, let’s move to the actual tutorial to create bootable OS X Yosemite USB, Connect your USB drive with Mac. Step 1: Download Hackintosh OS X 10.10.1 Yosemite.ISO File for Windows. Step 2: Mount the Hackintosh ISO Image File i.e. Step 3: Install R-Drive (in the hand). Step 4: Now expand the image 10.10.1.usb.arc to any Bootable USB flash drive or Bootable DVD for manual installation.

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Things You’ll Need

  • A Mac
  • An 8GB USB Flash Drive or larger where you would be burning the OSX Yosemite copy to.
  • The OS X 10.10 Yosemite installer from the Mac App Store in your Applications folder
  • An Administrator account on your Mac

Method 1: Using DiskMaker X

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Using Diskmaker X is the easiest way to burn or make a bootable USB Flash drive. Here is how to go about it.

1. You need to download the Yosemite installer as stated above from the Mac App Store and DiskMaker X .

2. Insert your 8GB (or larger) flash drive into your MAC. Make sure you must have backed up all important stuff, as you will loose them in this process from the flash drive.

3. Launch DiskMaker X. The app will offer to make installers for OS X 10.8, 10.9, and 10.10. Since we wish to install Yosemite, you will have to select 10.10 and let DiskMaker X handle the rest. DiskMaker X would find the Yosemite Installer and have it installed on your thumb drive. If it doesn’t find it, you can click on “Select an Install File” so you can easily navigate to the installer.

After the whole process must have been completed, you can now use this flash drive to install OSX Yosemite to any MAC. It’s actually that simple.

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Method 2: Using Terminal

If for some reasons you couldn’t get DiskMaker X working for you, you might want to follow this geeky steps using Terminal to achieve same result.

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1. Firstly Download the Yosemite installer.

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2. Insert your 8GB (or larger) flash drive (make sure you assign a name to it – I’ll be using Untitled as my drive name for this tutorial). Make sure you format your USB flash drive in OS X Extended (Journaled) using Disk Utility.

3. Launch the Terminal application on your MAC. Then type (or copy and paste) the following command into your Terminal window. Make sure you replace Untitled with the name of your drive. Then hit Enter on your keyboard.

sudo /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app --nointeraction

4. Now you would be prompted to type in your password, then press Enter again.

Allow terminal to complete the process (this could take close to half an hour). You can take out your USB Flash when you get the Done prompt. After it’s done, you should be able to use your USB Flash drive as a bootable disk to install OSX 10.10 Yosemite on any MAC computer.

Note: The Bootable USB Flash drive would not only be used to install Yosemite on Mac computers, but would also have utilities like Disk Utility and Time Machine recovery.

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To make use of this thumb drive to install the OSX 10.10 update, you can change the default Startup Disk in System Preferences or by holding down the Option key at boot and selecting the drive.

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I hope you find this useful.