Created a bootable USB with El Capitan installer
booted from it, erased my MBP (mid 2009), clean install from USB installer
In the following instruction, we show specifically how to make a Mac OS X bootable installation USB from El Capitan.DMG, Yosemite.DMG, Maverick.DMG or anyIn the following instruction, we show.
decided to use migration assistant, most apps not working plus all the clutter from pre clean install
Installing or booting every operating system needs to create bootable USB whether OS X or any other. Of course, we’ve to make an installer drive for installing Mac OS X. It may sound simple or an easy task but make sure that it is much more complicated from installing OS X El Capitan on VMware, Mac or PC because Mac OS switches harder to use than Windows or Linu. Mac users wishing to create a bootable install disk for Big Sur now need to use the createinstallmedia command in Terminal, and here’s how to do it. These instructions work to create a bootable install disk for all versions of macOS from macOS 11 Big Sur back to OS X El Capitan 10.11.
- In the following words, I will show the instructions of how to make Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan USB installer very quick in either Windows or Mac OS X. DOWNLOADSYou need to prepare an USB (8 GB.
- Oct 04, 2015 Created a bootable USB with El Capitan installer. Booted from it, erased my MBP (mid 2009), clean install from USB installer. Decided to use migration assistant, most apps not working plus all the clutter from pre clean install. Decided to do another clean install but MBP won't boot from USB and uses the recovery version instead.
decided to do another clean install but MBP won't boot from USB and uses the recovery version instead.
tried to get Maverick back and basically ended up with a non-working MBP that went into a boot loop
did a reinstall from MAS, ended up DLing the entire Installer again, went to bed and in the morning and 'working'
MBP again, plus all the clutter and non working apps.
Made a new bootable USB key using terminal and yes it finished and yes it said bootable at the end as well as in Disk Utilities.
However when trying to boot from USB, start+Option, or start+cmd+r still no sign of the USB stick, which i guess would leave me
with a non clean install again.
How To Make Bootable Usb Mac El Capitan
Any help, suggestions.....?
Cheers
Ralf
MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2009), OS X El Capitan (10.11)
Mac Bootable Usb Drive
Posted on Oct 4, 2015 7:57 AM