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usb bootable osx

  1. Caesar_091

    Unable to Create a Yosemite USB Boot Disk on Apple Silicon — Any Working Method?

    I need to create a USB bootable installer for OS X Yosemite to restore an old Intel iMac, but I’m forced to perform the operation on a recent Apple Silicon Mac. Every method I’ve tried has failed. - Install Disk Creator doesn’t work. - Terminal-based approaches don’t help. - The Yosemite...
  2. A

    Cannot create installer for Sonoma

    I need to create a USB installer, or at least get the full .app installer (not the 43MB silly one) for Sonoma. Here's what I tried: - I tried Recovery but the internet download breaks because my connection is not good. - I therefore downloaded (after lots of hours and retries)...
  3. seitsme

    bootable usb fresh Mavericks over 10.6 -format Q

    hi there, i have a macbook late 2009, with OSX 10.6.x and after i managed to burn a bootable usb osx mavericks installer, so i can ugrade or do fresh install and allow me to continue with sierra installation... i am stuck in installation because i see no information on the formating-install...