Created a bootable USB with El Capitan installer
Use Terminal to Create the El Capitan Bootable USB Installer. Follow these steps to create a bootable USB installer of El Capitan in Terminal. Connect the USB flash drive to your Mac. Give the flash drive an appropriate name. You can do this by double-clicking the device's name on the desktop and then typing a new name.
booted from it, erased my MBP (mid 2009), clean install from USB installer
- Bootable USB Stick - macOS X El Capitan 10.11 - Full OS Install, Reinstall, Recovery and Upgrade SANDISK USB FLASH DRIVE 2.0/3.1 - 16GB - 5 years warranty Latest certificate (expires These USBs are NOT produced by Apple.
- Linked below is the most complete guide I have found on the topic of creating a bootable copy of the Mac OS installer on a USB flash drive. The MacWorld guide and even Apple’s own support document, which other answers to this topic have linked to.
- As usual, Apple no longer supply a bootable USB Flash Drive with latest OS X releases - including the new OS X 10.11 El Capitan. Using this tutorial you will.
decided to use migration assistant, most apps not working plus all the clutter from pre clean install
decided to do another clean install but MBP won't boot from USB and uses the recovery version instead.
tried to get Maverick back and basically ended up with a non-working MBP that went into a boot loop
did a reinstall from MAS, ended up DLing the entire Installer again, went to bed and in the morning and 'working'
MBP again, plus all the clutter and non working apps.
Made a new bootable USB key using terminal and yes it finished and yes it said bootable at the end as well as in Disk Utilities.
Create Bootable Usb Drive Macos
However when trying to boot from USB, start+Option, or start+cmd+r still no sign of the USB stick, which i guess would leave me
with a non clean install again.
Os X El Capitan Bootable Usb
Any help, suggestions.....?
Cheers
Mac Os X El Capitan Bootable Usb
Ralf
MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2009), OS X El Capitan (10.11)
Posted on Oct 4, 2015 7:57 AM