Use the 'Restore' option in Disk Utility to write it down on a USB-stick.Enjoy!————————————————————————How to do info. (OS X Versions before El Capitan)Format Your USB Flash Drive.1. Insert the USB flash drive into your Mac’s USB port.2. Launch Disk Utility, located at /Applications/Utilities/.3. In the list of drives attached to your Mac, select the USB flash drive device. In my case, it’s called “16 GB TDK Stick”.4. Click the ‘Partition’ tab.5.
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This guide deals with how to make a bootable disk of either OSX 10.11 El Capitan, 10.10 Yosemite or 10.9 Mavericks. It is done via the Terminal from a command Apple introduced since OSX Lion called createinstallmedia, all you need is the original OSX app installer and a spare external drive to make a copy of the new OS installer on which you will be able to boot from.
Select ‘1 Partition’ from the Volume Scheme dropdown menu.6. Enter a descriptive name for your flash drive; I chose 'OSXUSBInstall'7.
Select Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) from the Format dropdown menu.8. Click the ‘Options’ button.9.
Select ‘GUID Partition Table’ from the list of available partition schemes.10. Click ‘OK.Now the USB flash drive is prepared you can Restore 'Install OS X El Capitan.dmg' to your USB flash drive.1. Click on 'Restore' in the Disk Utility window.2. Drag 'Install OS X El Capitan.dmg” to 'Source'3. Drag the usb flash drive (in my case 'OSXUSBInstall') to 'Destination'4. Click 'Restore' and enter your system password.(To install OS X restart your Mac with “alt” hold and select your USB flash drive)Done————————————————————————How to do info.
(When El Capitan is already installed)Format Your USB Flash Drive.1. Insert the USB flash drive into your Mac’s USB port.2. Launch Disk Utility, located at /Applications/Utilities/.3. In the list of drives attached to your Mac, select the USB flash drive device. In my case, it’s called “16 GB TDK Stick”.4.
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Click on “Erase”5. Enter a descriptive name for your flash drive; I chose 'OSXUSBInstall'6. Select Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) from the Format dropdown menu.7. For Scheme choose “Guid Partition Map”6.
And click “Erase”Now the USB flash drive is prepared you can Restore 'Install OS X El Capitan.dmg' to your USB flash drive.1. Open Disk Utility2. In the menu left of the “Disk Utility” window select the USB Drive.(The one you gave a specific name) In my case “OSXUSBInstall”3. In the top menu bar from “Disk Utility” click “Edit” / “Restore”4.Click on “Image” and go to the DMG File with El Capitan named “Install OS X El Capitan” and click “Open”In the next window you see:Restore from: Install OS X El Capitan.dmg5.
Now click “Restore”It takes about 3 minutes to restore (In my case:-)(To install OS X restart your Mac with “alt” hold and select your USB flash drive)Done.———————————————————————— Sharing Widget.warning: El Capitan has included a number a of measure that makes the platform even more closed than it was before, so a number of customizing apps and things that alter system files (when you want them to) simply don't work on this OS.WORKS GREAT. Though i had to do the same procedure 2x.
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