{"id":90,"date":"2015-03-15T04:50:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T17:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/?post_type=article&#038;p=90"},"modified":"2022-11-14T20:05:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T09:05:46","slug":"how-to-create-a-bootable-mavericks-usb-the-easy-way","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/how-to-create-a-bootable-mavericks-usb-the-easy-way\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create a Bootable Mavericks USB &#8211; The Easy Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/osx-mavericks-usb-1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-91\" data-original=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/osx-mavericks-usb-1.jpg\" alt=\"osx-mavericks-usb\" width=\"590\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>This article has now been superseded by our <a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/how-to-create-a-bootable-yosemite-usb-using-the-command-line-terminal\/\">Bootable Yosemite USB<\/a> Guide<\/strong><\/p>\n<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<h3>1. Download Mavericks<\/h3>\n<p>Mavericks can be downloaded directly from Apple <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/app\/os-x-mavericks\/id675248567\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a> (make sure you leave the file in the default download location)<\/p>\n<h3>2. Prepare a USB Flash Drive (Must be 8Gb or larger)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Plug the USB Drive in to your Mac and open &#8220;Disk Utility&#8221; (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 &#8211; Leave the name as &#8220;Untitled&#8221;. If you change this the next step won&#8217;t work<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h3>3. Create the Bootable Mavericks USB Drive<\/h3>\n<p>Open up Terminal (found in applications)<\/p>\n<p>Type this in:<\/p>\n<p>sudo \/Applications\/Install\\ OS\\ X\\ Mavericks.app\/Contents\/Resources\/createinstallmedia &#8211;volume \/Volumes\/Untitled &#8211;applicationpath \/Applications\/Install\\ OS\\ X\\ Mavericks.app &#8211;nointeraction<\/p>\n<p>Wait for the process to complete. Done.<\/p>\n<h3>4. Boot from the Mavericks USB Drive<\/h3>\n<p>Restart your computer and hold down &#8220;Option&#8221;. You can now select the USB Drive you just created.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This article has now been superseded by our <a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/how-to-create-a-bootable-yosemite-usb-using-the-command-line-terminal\/\">Bootable Yosemite USB<\/a> Guide<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='text-align:left' class='yasr-auto-insert-visitor'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This article has now been superseded by our Bootable Yosemite USB Guide 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 [&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":[34,35],"class_list":["post-90","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-apple-mac","article-tag-mavericks","article-tag-usb"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":9,"sum_votes":34},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/90","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=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-tag?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}