Hello. Here are step by step instruction that a friend of mine wrote. Hope this helps. How To Create a Bootable Installation Of OS X Using an SD card, or USB Thumb Drive Jason Earls
Note: Be sure you have nothing important on the storage media you wish to use, as this process will completely erase it. If you do need the contents of your storage media, be sure to back it up some ware other than your Mac if you plan on formatting your Mac's hard drive and reinstalling OS X. WHAT YOU'LL NEED 1. A copy of the version of OS X you will be using to create your installation. Note: For OS X V 10.7 and higher, this can be obtained by downloading a copy from the App Store. 2. A SD card or USB thumb drive with around 8GB of available storage. Note: The *.dmg file isn't 8GB in size. This is because the *.dmg is compressed. This method will uncompress the disk image, thus requiring more space than the size of the compressed .dmg, which is around 5GB normally. INSTRUCTIONS Note: It is assumed you will be using OSX V 10.7 or higher. 1. Upon successfully downloading the Install OS X application, you will be presented with the OS X installer. You may safely quit this installer, as we won't be using it in this fashion. 2. Locate the OS X install application which is normally located in your Applications directory. Note: Pressing Command+Shift+A in the Finder will take you to the Applications directory. 3. right click (press Control+Option+Shift+M for VoiceOver users), which will open a context menu. 4. Click on or arrow down until you hear "Show package contents," and press enter. 5. Upon clicking or pressing enter on "Show package contents," you will be placed inside of the *.app folder. Note: All files with the extension of *.app are actually folders, not files. 6. Open the "Contents" folder, which is the only folder inside the *.app folder. 7. Locate and open the "SharedSupport folder". Note: Don't be tricked by the "MacOS" and "Resources" folders. I use to make the same mistake myself. 8. There are two files inside this folder. They are: "InstallESD.dmg" and OSInstall.mpkg". You will want the first which is "InstallESD.dmg". 9. Copy this to the clipboard, and paste it into another location that you can remember later. Note: After pasting the disk image into your preferred location, you'll want to open it. You can close it's window when it opens. 10. If you haven't already done so, insert your preferred storage media into your Mac. 11. In Finder, press Command+Shift+U to open the "Utilities" folder. 12. Arrow down to or click on "DiskUtility", and open it. 13. You will see a table with all of your disks including the *.dmg. Note: In this table, the disk name shows up first, and under that is all of the partitions on the disk. Example: My hard drive shows up as "750.16 GB ST9750420AS Media". This is the name of my hard drive, and under it is "Macintosh HD", which is the partition ware OS X is installed. 14. Once you see that the disk image is indeed in the table, click on or press the "Restore" tab. Note: There are 5 tabs. They are: "First Aid", "Erase", "Partition", "RAID", and "Restore". Note: From now on, when the term "Interact" is used, it means that if you are using VoiceOver, you must interact or this will not work. It's a bit tricky to deal with for some reason. 15. Interact with the "Selected disks" table. 16. Using the VoiceOver keys (Control+option+up, down, left, or right) locate the item "Install Os X ESD". 17. Right click it, which should bring up a menu. You should be able to arrow up and down it. Choose the option "Set as source". Note: You actually have to right click it. Using Control+Option+Shift+M doesn't seem to work. Also, you have to rout the mouse to the item first, which is Control+Option+F5. On a portable computer, you'll need to ad the FN key unless you've changed it in System Preferences. 18. In the same disks table, locate your storage media. If you know the size of it, it may help you in locating it. Note: As stated above, your disks and drives show up like this. Drive name first, partition name second. The drive name normally has the size of the drive in the name. See the example above. You could also Command+Tab back to finder and find it either on your desktop, or by pressing Command+Shift+C, which will bring you to "Computer" ware all of your drives show up. 19. Right click and choose "Set as destination". Note: Again, you'll need to rout the mouse and actually right click for this to work correctly. See above. 20. If done correctly, you can see if everything is set up the way it should be by telling VoiceOver to stop interacting with the table, and looking in the Disk Utility window. Note: Source should be "Install ESD" and Destination should be whatever your storage media is called. 21. Click or press the "Restore" button if all is set correctly. Note: Looking in the Disk Utility window, will show you what your Mac is doing and the amount of time it will take. Don't worry if this takes around half an hour, this is normal. The Mac is copying the disk image over piece by piece exactly. 22. Once the restore is finished, your Mac may open the OS X install media for you. You may close it if you wish. 23. Sense actually going through the install is outside the scope of this guide, you are done and should have a perfectly working copy of the OS X installer on your thumb drive or SD card. Congratulations! FURTHER NOTES 1. To interact with an item, press Control+Option+Shift+Down arrow. Pressing Up arrow will stop interacting. 2. If you have the Mouse cursor following the VoiceOver cursor, you still may have to rout the mouse with Control+Option+F5. 3. To perform a right click with the mouse, press Control while pressing the mouse down. 4. If you wish to run the installer without rebooting your Mac, open the OS X install media, and then open "OSInstall.mpkg", and follow the onscreen instructions. 5. If you wish to reinstall OS X and reformat your Mac's Hard drive, you will have to shut down your Mac, turn it on while holding down the Option key, and wait for about 1-2 seconds after hearing the startup chime before letting go of the Option key. You are in a boot menu that VoiceOver won't be able to read. Press Right arrow once and then enter. Wait for a couple minutes and then try turning on VoiceOver with Command+F5. If your Mac brings you to the LogIN screen, try repeating the steps above, but press Right Arrow twice. You should always be placed on your Mac's hard drive every time you press Option while turning on your Mac. 6. Unless you have changed VoiceOver's voice at LogOn, another way to tell is to know that the OS X installer uses Fred as VoiceOver's voice. Alternatively, trying changing the system volume with your volume keys. I've observed that you can not change the system volume using the volume keys if you are booted into the OS X installer Matt Dierckens Macintosh Trainer Blind Access Training www.blindaccesstraining.com 1-877-774-7670 ext. 4 matt...@blindaccesstraining.com Introduction to the Macintosh Operating system and voiceover course available now. Take advantage of our 10% discount for the month of June. Spots are limited, sign up here http://blindaccesstraining.com/training-courses/ On Jun 12, 2014, at 11:00 PM, Marlon Brandão de Sousa <splyt.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I need to do a clean install of maverix. > > I have a mac book air so I have no cd drive. > > I have heard that one can run the installer from the recovery > partition. But I am curious about how it is possible because the very > first thing you do, if I understood it good enough, is to format your > hd. So if the installer was in your hd and you formated it then how > you can run the installer? > How one copy the installer to the recovery partition? > > Thanks, > Marlon > > > -- > When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows," people just > stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for > free." > Linus Torvalds > > -- > 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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