So start by opening Terminal.app and pasting in the following (don’t worry, we’ll undo this change when we are done)… defaults write AppleShowAllFiles YES
You are going to need to see some hidden files for this.You will need at least a 8GB Flash Drive (USB 3.0 is obviously a better choice). The Marek Bell blog notes that creating a bootable flash drive of Mavericks is a bit more intricate than Mountain Lion because “it is no longer possible to simply restore the InstallESD.dmg to get a bootable image for USB / Flash drive installation.” But there is a way around this obstacle, which Marek outlines in his thorough walkthrough of creating a bootable OS X Mavericks flash drive. When I happened onto this post from 9to5Mac ( ) So I did some deeper digging because I wanted to get my iMac running 10.6.8 into the DANGER ZONE as soon as possible. ): sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia –volume /Volumes/Untitled –applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app (Terminal gave me the -9999 error)Īnd running a Script version of the Terminal option (with the same results.
Running this in Terminal (courtesy of Nerd Answer. Error Message saying it had problems erasing the drive. Installing DiskMaker X ( ) – Didn’t work. The methods I tried that were suggested were: The error is this: When trying to use the multiple methods offered for creating a bootable thumb drive version of Mavericks (Requires a thumb drive 8GB or higher), you get this error: Failed to start erase of disk due to error (-9999, 0). I’ve seen a bunch of people running into the same errors that I did but no one had a fix. But for people that never got past OS X 10.6.8, we didn’t realize how much of an issue we would run into.
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Let’s add Mavericks To A USB Drive, shall we?Īpple decided to break the mold and release OS X Mavericks for free through the App store.
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