Error while creating OS X Mavericks bootable USB
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29-09-2020 - |
Question
I am running on OS X Mavericks GM
and now that Mavericks
has finally released, I downloaded it from App Store. I wanted to make a bootable USB of it so I followed This Tutorial but when I tried to run the command for copying the files from .app
to USB
I got the following error
Ankurs-MacBook-Pro:~ Ankur$ sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia
--volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app -nointeraction
Password:
sudo: /Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia: command not found
Ankurs-MacBook-Pro:~ Ankur$
What can I do to resolve this issue?
EDIT Using DiskMaker X I got the same error
Solution
Had the same problem. Thought the file "createinstallmedia" was missing, but that wasn't the case. Then I realised I simply needed to make it executable with the following command:
sudo chmod +x /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia
This will create the executable that DiskMaker X initially couldn't find. After running the command above you shouldn't have the error anymore.
Hope that helps :)
OTHER TIPS
Solved it
I copied the same Install OS X Mavericks.app
in a different Mac that was running on Mountain Lion 10.8.5
and tried DiskMaker X and it worked. I'm not sure but maybe the reason was that OS X Mavericks GM Build
doesn't support the command that was used or maybe there's a different way to copy things on OS X Mavericks
using terminal.
Update
I tried making another bootable USB using my Mac (OS X 10.8.5) with the same Install OS X Mavericks.app
but failed to do so, it seems that you can only make a bootable USB on the same system that you've downloaded Mavericks
on.