How can I create an OS 10.9 Mavericks .dmg?

[tuna]

I work in a small business where about 95% of our computers are Macs and I am the main person that maintains them. One approach that has saved me many hours of time is that I've been keeping OS X install images on my hard drive, ready to be transformed into a bootable drive, at all times.

I would like to do the same for Mavericks but I have been unable to find directions that don't involve making a one-off bootable disk.

What I want to achieve is the setup I have now:
* I have OS 10.8's InstallESD.dmg file sitting in my application installer folder
* Whenever I want to image a mac, I plug in an 8GB+ USB drive and use Disk Utility to format it appropriately and restore it with the InstallESD.dmg file, creating a bootable USB install drive

Right now I have the 10.9 installer sitting on my computer, so I'm ready to do whatever I have to do to achieve my former setup for Mavericks. I want to create a single .dmg install file that I can use to restore a disk and create a bootable USB drive at will.

How can I achieve this?

 

[Macman45]

I work in a small business where about 95% of our computers are Macs and I am the main person that maintains them. One approach that has saved me many hours of time is that I've been keeping OS X install images on my hard drive, ready to be transformed into a bootable drive, at all times.

I would like to do the same for Mavericks but I have been unable to find directions that don't involve making a one-off bootable disk.

What I want to achieve is the setup I have now:
* I have OS 10.8's InstallESD.dmg file sitting in my application installer folder
* Whenever I want to image a mac, I plug in an 8GB+ USB drive and use Disk Utility to format it appropriately and restore it with the InstallESD.dmg file, creating a bootable USB install drive

Right now I have the 10.9 installer sitting on my computer, so I'm ready to do whatever I have to do to achieve my former setup for Mavericks. I want to create a single .dmg install file that I can use to restore a disk and create a bootable USB drive at will.

How can I achieve this?

One little app and your USB stick...step by step here:

http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39...-a-bootable-os-x-mavericks-usb-install-drive/

 

[stridemat]

One little app and your USB stick...step by step here:

http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39...-a-bootable-os-x-mavericks-usb-install-drive/

Or use this app:

http://diskmakerx.com

 

[MacUser2525]

Another idea since it seems like you want a basic install on all these machines is this. Go through an install to an external drive but don't boot it for the last step the user setup this will give you a basic install with a recovery partition on it. Now when it comes time to do a new machine boot the recovery partition on that external then restore the basic install you have on that external to the machine you are working on.

 

[drambuie]

From what you say, it appears that all you want is 10.9's InstallESD.dmg file. If you have the Install OS X Mavericks.app file, you already have the .dmg file. All you have to do is expand the .app to Contents, then you will find the .dmg in the SharedSupport folder.

 

[tuna]

One little app and your USB stick...step by step here:

http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39...-a-bootable-os-x-mavericks-usb-install-drive/

This creates a bootable USB drive but it doesn't say anything about keeping the installer image on my hard drive for easy access. Plus, for some reason, it asks you to use the command line, which I never had to do before. I just used the "Restore" functionality in Disk Utility to restore a USB drive with the OS X install disk image.

How can I create a simple OS X Mavericks install disk image that can be used to create an OS X Mavericks bootable install disk using Disk Utility?

 

[Bruno09]

You can keep the installer, why do you want to keep a .dmg ?

The installer weighs 5.31 GB, the .dmg 5.29 GB.

When you want to create a bootable installer, use DiskMaker X and you are done.

I just used the "Restore" functionality in Disk Utility to restore a USB drive with the OS X install disk image.

This no longer works with Mavericks (or, say, needs some more job).

 

[tywebb13]

Unlike Lion and Mountain Lion, the InstallESD.dmg file is not bootable for Mavericks, and so alternative methods are required for this.

The best way is to use a bootable USB because it boots up faster than a DVD and there is no need for a DMG file if you make a bootable USB.

But you will have to make an iso file only for the purposes of making a bootable DVD if that is what you want.

So here are instructions both for the USB and DVD and making an iso file:

USB

Your 8 GB USB drive should be called Untitled and formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). The installer should be called Install OS X Mavericks.app and should be in your Applications folder.

Run this in terminal and wait about 20 minutes:

sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app --nointeraction

You should see something like this:

Erasing Disk: 0%... 10%... 20%... 100%...
Copying installer files to disk...
Copy complete.
Making disk bootable...
Copying boot files...
Copy complete.
Done.

You can then boot up from the USB by holding down the option key, then install the Mavericks from the USB.

Note that this will also install a recovery partition.

ISO file and DVD

If you want such a DVD, then after downloading the Install OS X Mavericks.app file from the Mac App Store, run these 12 commands in Terminal to create a Mavericks.iso file and then burn it to a dual layer DVD with Disk Utility. You may then boot up from it by holding the option key down and then install mavericks. This will not install a recovery partition. To do that, uncompress and run the script file from https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13872235/Musings/Recovery Partition Creator 3.7.zip

hdiutil attach /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg -noverify -nobrowse -mountpoint /Volumes/install_app

hdiutil convert /Volumes/install_app/BaseSystem.dmg -format UDSP -o /tmp/Mavericks

hdiutil resize -size 8g /tmp/Mavericks.sparseimage

hdiutil attach /tmp/Mavericks.sparseimage -noverify -nobrowse -mountpoint /Volumes/install_build

rm /Volumes/install_build/System/Installation/Packages

cp -rp /Volumes/install_app/Packages /Volumes/install_build/System/Installation/

hdiutil detach /Volumes/install_app

hdiutil detach /Volumes/install_build

hdiutil resize -size `hdiutil resize -limits /tmp/Mavericks.sparseimage | tail -n 1 | awk '{ print $1 }'`b /tmp/Mavericks.sparseimage

hdiutil convert /tmp/Mavericks.sparseimage -format UDTO -o /tmp/Mavericks

rm /tmp/Mavericks.sparseimage

mv /tmp/Mavericks.cdr ~/Desktop/Mavericks.iso

 

[voodoojaron]

tywebb13 -

Do I click on the ESB Install or Mavericks.sparseimage to burn the DVD, sorry I'm a newbie.

VJ