{"id":204,"date":"2015-06-12T05:36:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T18:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/?post_type=article&#038;p=204"},"modified":"2022-12-02T11:40:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T00:40:49","slug":"how-to-create-a-bootable-yosemite-usb-using-the-command-line-terminal","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/how-to-create-a-bootable-yosemite-usb-using-the-command-line-terminal\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create a Bootable Yosemite USB using the Command Line (Terminal)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many ways that you can create a bootable Mavericks USB Drive but this seems to me the far easiest way to do so. In this article I will assume that you already have a reasonable grasp of the OSX system and cut out the lengthy text:<\/p>\n<h2>1. Download\u00a0Yosemite from the Apple Store<\/h2>\n<p>Yosemite can be downloaded directly from Apple Store <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/au\/app\/os-x-yosemite\/id915041082?mt=12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>. \u00a0After download it will try and install automatically on your Mac. \u00a0Just cancel out of this.<\/p>\n<h2>2. Verify the Installation Files are present<\/h2>\n<p>Head over to your Applications folder and check that there is a file which says<strong> Install Yosemite<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Install-Yosemite.png\"><img class=\" size-full wp-image-205 alignleft\" data-original=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Install-Yosemite.png\" alt=\"Install Yosemite\" width=\"497\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>2. Prepare a USB Flash Drive (Must be 8Gb or larger)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Plug the USB Drive in to your Mac and open \u201cDisk Utility\u201d (found under applications \/ utilities in finder)<\/li>\n<li>Select the USB Drive<\/li>\n<li>Select the Erase tab<\/li>\n<li>Ensure that the format is Mac OS Extended (Journaled)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>IMPORTANT \u2013 Leave the name as \u201cUntitled\u201d. If you change this the next step won\u2019t work<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h2>3. Create the Bootable Yosemite\u00a0USB Drive<\/h2>\n<p>Open up Terminal (found in applications)<\/p>\n<p>Type this in:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo \/Applications\/Install\\ OS\\ X\\ Yosemite.app\/Contents\/Resources\/createinstallmedia --volume \/Volumes\/Untitled --applicationpath \/Applications\/Install\\ OS\\ X\\ Yosemite.app --nointeraction<\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Wait for the process to complete. Done.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>4. Boot from the Yosemite\u00a0USB Drive<\/h2>\n<p>Restart your computer and hold down \u201cOption\u201d. You can now select the USB Drive you just created.<\/p>\n<p>This article is an updated version of our previous <a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/how-to-create-a-bootable-mavericks-usb-the-easy-way\/\">Mavericks USB Install Guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style='text-align:left' class='yasr-auto-insert-visitor'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many ways that you can create a bootable Mavericks USB Drive but this seems to me the far easiest way to do so. In this article I will assume that you already have a reasonable grasp of the OSX system and cut out the lengthy text: 1. Download\u00a0Yosemite from the Apple Store Yosemite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[25],"article-tag":[147,146,145],"class_list":["post-204","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-apple-mac","article-tag-yosemite-bootable-usb","article-tag-yosemite-terminal-usb","article-tag-yosemite-usb"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":11,"sum_votes":48},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-tag?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}