I've been having trouble with this for a long time but never got around to asking for help. Basically, I can never seem to get the dosdude high sierra patcher to create me a bootable USB drive. I have one, in hand, that did work, which is why i've been just living with it, and not stressing the inability to make another. But someday something will happen to my USB drive, and i'll need that new one urgently. I've tried multiple USB drives, USB SSD drives, computers on which i'm creating it, downloading additional ISOs... nothing makes a difference. Is anyone out there able to get it working and if so, how? I've created boot drives with other OSes multiple times and never have any issue. Weird...
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Can't seem to create Dosdude1 high sierra boot disk
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I created a patcher usb using dosdude1's patcher three or four days ago and it's working. Used tools to download HS and applied the patches. All normal
Unfortunately that doesn't help
I've even/also tried creating a disk image from my working patched high sierra USB drive which fails at creation stage.Would you be willing to create an image from your created USB drive and sending it to me via Dropbox or some other similar file sharing service? I can share a dropbox folder with you that has 8 GB of free space in it even, or we could use google drive?
Hi Cameron, did you ever get it to work?
I've tried making a High Sierra install using the High Sierra Patcher with a number of different USB drives, but always get this error, was your issue the same?:
Could not copy files to your USB drive…
/dev/disk5 GUID_partition_scheme
/dev/disk5s1 EFI
/dev/disk5s2 Apple_HFS /private/tmp/installesd
Validating target...done
Validating source...done
Retrieving scan information...done
Validating sizes...done
Restoring ....10....20....30....40....50....60....70....80....90....100
Restored target device is /dev/disk2s2.
Remounting target volume...done
rm: /Volumes/macOS/System/Installation/Packages: No such file or directory
cp: /Volumes/macOS/System/Installation: No such file or directory
cp: /tmp/installesd/Packages: unable to copy extended attributes to /Volumes/macOS/System/Installation: No such file or directory
cp: /Volumes/macOS/System/Installation/Core.pkg: No such file or directory
…
I've tried making a High Sierra install using the High Sierra Patcher with a number of different USB drives, but always get this error, was your issue the same?:
Could not copy files to your USB drive…
/dev/disk5 GUID_partition_scheme
/dev/disk5s1 EFI
/dev/disk5s2 Apple_HFS /private/tmp/installesd
Validating target...done
Validating source...done
Retrieving scan information...done
Validating sizes...done
Restoring ....10....20....30....40....50....60....70....80....90....100
Restored target device is /dev/disk2s2.
Remounting target volume...done
rm: /Volumes/macOS/System/Installation/Packages: No such file or directory
cp: /Volumes/macOS/System/Installation: No such file or directory
cp: /tmp/installesd/Packages: unable to copy extended attributes to /Volumes/macOS/System/Installation: No such file or directory
cp: /Volumes/macOS/System/Installation/Core.pkg: No such file or directory
…
Hi, I had the same issue but managed to resolve it by leaving the volume label as it was after a failed attempt. From the screenshots on the instructions it looks like you should use "macOS" as the label when formatting the USB drive. However the errors in the log then suggest it was looking for /Volumes/macOS/ later in the process but instead the disk was actually mounting as /Volumes/OS X Base System. I tried reformatting the USB stick after a failed attempt but not changing the label, which then seemed to work.