![]() ![]() Now you will see the external root drive in addition to the volume below it. Choose Show All Devices from the options. Before this next step, note: if you are running High Sierra or later you will need to click on the View dropdown below the close minimize buttons.Launch Disk Utility (press Command + spacebar and start to type Disk Utility). ![]() Plug in an external drive with at least 15GB space as that’s how much the installer will require.These are the instructions to follow to create your bootable USB – note there will be tiny adjustments depending on the installer you require: Note that the createinstallmedia command erases anything on your external disk though, so make sure there’s nothing on it that you need. ![]() You’ll find all the createinstallmedia commands below, including the Monterey createinstallmedia command. The createinstallmedia command makes it possible to create a bootable copy of an installer on any drive that’s connected to your Mac. Since Mavericks, creating a bootable installation of macOS requires a single command in Terminal. Also, the processes have changed slightly since Mavericks so if your looking to create an installation of one of the ‘Cat’ versions of Mac OS X you should read this older article instead. Note, the createinstallmedia method described here doesn’t work under OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or earlier – it requires OS X 10.7 Lion or later. Now you have the installation files, we can move on to the process of making the bootable installer. Step 2: Create a bootable installer for macOS A disk image named InstallOS.dmg will download and once it does you need to locate the pkg installer inside the disk image. Getting old versions of macOS is a little more difficult if you don’t know where to look, but Apple provides dmg files of these older macOS versions(you need to download them in Safari).
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