Re: Very basic need, very difficult to achieve.
Re: Very basic need, very difficult to achieve.
- Subject: Re: Very basic need, very difficult to achieve.
- From: Charles Srstka <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 23:08:23 -0500
> On May 3, 2016, at 10:55 PM, sqwarqDev <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> On 4 May 2016, at 10:48, Charles Srstka <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> In the earlier downloadable OS X installers, the InstallESD was bootable; in the current ones it’s not. I don’t remember when that changed,
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> 10.7 I believe.
It was definitely bootable in 10.7, because that was the first version that was downloadable. It changed to be non-bootable sometime later, although I don’t remember which release that occurred in.
>> Aha, ArsTechnica to the rescue.
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> Also, don’t quote me on it, but I believe that Diskmaker app mentioned in the Ars article is still around and still works on 10.11 (I recall a colleague mentioning recently that they used it).
You don’t need third-party apps. The binary inside the install app’s bundle does a perfectly good job of creating a bootable disk and/or image.
Charles
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