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Now that OS X Yosemite is available, many users may wish to create a bootable installer drive
from something like a USB flash thumb drive or another disk. This allows for several things, the
ability to upgrade multiple Macs without having to re-download the installer, the ability to perform
a clean install, and also the convenience of having a separate bootable reinstallation drive in the
event you need it for serving a Mac.
Creating a Yosemite installation drive that

is bootable is quite simple, but its a
multiple step process. Before you
begging, make sure you have the
following basic requirements met:
Requirements
A USB Flash Drive that is 16GB or
larger which you dont mind formatting
The Install OS X Yosemite.app
launcher in the /Applications/ directory
of the Mac (downloaded from the App Store, but not installed)
Of course, were assuming the destination Mac(s) that are going to get Yosemite are compatible.
Basically, if the Mac is capable of running OS X Mavericks, it is capable of running OS X
Yosemite too.
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How to Create a Bootable OS X

Yosemite Installer Disk in 2 Steps
For the purposes of this walkthrough, were going to use a 16GB USB flash thumb drive, but
youre free to use whatever you want, and you could even use an external hard drive if you really
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wanted to. The convenience of a portable flash drive is undeniable so its preferred if youre
going to be updating multiple Macs. Lets get started:
Step 1: Format the USB Drive to be Bootable

This is going to format the drive so that it will be a bootable installer, without doing this the drive
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may not be bootable. If you dont want to erase the drive, find one you dont mind formatting
instead. When you format a fresh drive on a Mac it becomes labeled as Untitled so were going
to assume that the boot destination drive is named Untitled as well. If for some reason you have
another drive named Untitled, change the name or dont use it.
1. Connect the USB drive to the Mac and launch Disk Utility, then select that USB drive from
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the left side drive list (be sure you select the USB drive you want to make the bootable
installer from)
2. Click on the Erase tab and format the drive as Mac OS Extended (Journaled), then
choose Erase and confirm
3. Next go to the Partition tab and under Partition Layout click on the pulldown menu,
changing it from Current to 1 Partition
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4. Change the name to Untitled from Untitled 1 then click on the Options button
5. Choose GUID Partition Table as the partition scheme and choose OK
6. Click Apply and confirm the creation of the partition

7. Quit out of Disk Utility when finished
Now that the drive is ready, you can move on to making the actual installer.
Step 2: Making the OS X Yosemite Installer Drive

The next step will actually make the installer drive from the previously formatted USB disk. If you
already have the OS X Yosemite installer application in the /Applications/ folder on the Mac, you
can skip directly to step 3:
1. Download OS X Yosemite from the Mac App Store, its free (direct link) DO NOT
INSTALL IT YET
2. When the download completes and the Install OS X Yosemite app launches, quit out of it
immediately
3. Launch Terminal app and enter the following command exactly, copy and paste works fine:
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\
Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume
/Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\
Yosemite.app --nointeraction
4. Enter the administrator password when requested (this is required to use the sudo
command the password will not show up and it looks as if youre not entering anything,
that is normal behavior for the command line), then hit the RETURN key to start making the
installer
5. Youll see a series of message like the following, let it finish until you see the Done
message this may take a while as multiple GB of data have to be transferred:
"Erasing Disk: 0%... 10%... 20%... 30%...100%...
Copying installer files to disk...
Copy complete.
Making disk bootable...
Copying boot files...
Copy complete.
Done."
6. When finished and the terminal reads Done, exit out of Terminal, youre ready to use the
bootable installer drive
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Thats all there is to it. Your freshly made OS X Yosemite install drive will be visible in the Mac
Finder:
Now you just need to boot from the freshly made OS X Yosemite drive, do that by rebooting the
Mac and holding down the OPTION key and selecting the Install OS X Yosemite drive upon
boot.
If the drive does not boot, you almost certainly skipped the first step which was to partition the
drive as GUID, or perhaps interfered with the syntax in the command. You can go through the
process again to be sure.
This allows you to update any version of OS X from Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion, or
Mavericks, directly to OS X Yosemite, with the installer that was just made. You can also perform
a clean install (which we separately address in a thorough walkthrough here), or update
multiple Macs without having to download it from the App Store again. Be sure to always back
up the target Mac before updating OS X, whether to OS X 10.10 or any other version, you can
follow detailed instructions on how to prepare a Mac for OS X Yosemite here. Enjoy OS X
Yosemite!
The aforementioned steps have been tested repeatedly and are confirmed to work flawlessly
with the OS X Yosemite final release. If you have any issues, run through the steps again, or
leave a comment with your specific error. If you know of an easier way, let us know in the
comments too!
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Stan-O says:
October 16, 2014 at 5:48 pm
I just have done the same, before this was posted and it worked with an 8Gb drive just as
well.
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EricW says:
October 17, 2014 at 2:06 am
This is exactly the information I would have expected OSX daily to provide. Thank you
for the info and this was my only question.
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charles ghareh says:

March 7, 2015 at 8:47 am
i have a simple problem

,my hard drive jus got damaged and had to change it and my imac is when i bought it
used to run on os lion ( the old version ) and now i changed the drive but i cant
download the lion cause its not available on app and i cant run another installer like
yoso or other versions of macintosh what can i do ?
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Wickedjargon says:
May 19, 2015 at 4:49 pm
do a google search on kick sass torrents and/or priatebay and search to see if
you can find a copy there.
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Prescott Perez-Fox says:

You can also use a drive thats only 8GB. I just did it and its installing now.
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Prescott Perez-Fox says:

Oops, looks like someone else said the same thing.

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OSX noob says:

Make sure your HD partition isnt called Untitled as mine was

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murphy says:
November 22, 2014 at 7:48 pm
LOL thanks for the tip and thats unlucky

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chris says:
February 24, 2015 at 1:49 pm
I suspect my HD partition is called untitled as I am getting error after running the script
saying Volume/untitled is not the mounted volume ??
what do you do to fix this
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Paul Johnson says:

February 26, 2015 at 5:10 am
Did you receive a reply Chris?

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Nathan says:
March 1, 2015 at 7:01 am
What I did was to find volume /Volumes/Untitled segment of the command and
change it to (putting the quotes in) volume /Volumes/Untitled 1. The reason for
the 1 and the quotes is that the mount table sees /Volumes/Untitled 1 as the
mount point.
HTH
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jj says:
April 7, 2015 at 8:18 pm
I have tried the 1 and the quotes and its not working for me.any other
idea someone?
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Andy N says:
May 20, 2015 at 6:13 am
Note: when you change the name to Untitled from Untitled 1 make
sure to erase both the 1 and the preceding space.
I am not sure how the application handles this and new the volume
name may contain the trailing space creating the unknown volume
error.
Travis says:
May 1, 2015 at 6:53 am
Awesome. This tip just worked for me, thanks!

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Blaine says:
June 6, 2015 at 11:17 am
THANK YOU! I have made bootable USBs so many dierent ways but
this route with Yosemite seems the best way with the
createinstallmedia tool / terminal command. Ive been having
problems fully executing the process and DELETING THE _ (space) as
well when erasing the 1 in Untitled 1 was my problem as well. Had to
say thanks and try to hi light your fix for me in case other may have the
problem.
Stean Perry says:

July 2, 2015 at 8:28 am
The quotes are not required, simple escape the space as such:
/Volumes/Volume\ 1
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Tommy says:
July 25, 2015 at 9:56 am
Yup, did the same, renamed mine from UNTITLED to Untitled and got the error
/Volumes/Untitled is not a valid volume mount point.
Leave it in capitals.
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pab says:
July 25, 2015 at 10:30 am
The name in the command must match the destination drive name exactly
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Trevor says:
i go through all the steps and it copies the data but the drive does not show up for me to
boot from it
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roundart says:
Same problem. All I see is my bootcamp drive, my main mac os drive (mountain Lion)
and my recovery disk. No Yosemite installl disk. I am holding the option key (obviously,
because I see the other disks)
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Shane says:
October 31, 2014 at 12:57 pm
I ran into the same issue. I am, by no means, an expert when it comes to this
stu. I read as much as I can on these sites and discover things about my
machine through careful trial and error.
That said, my USB drive did not appear as an option to boot from. I unplugged
my external and plugged it back in, which my Mac then recognized.
I was concerned this might corrupt the files on my external, but everything turned
out fine. Not sure why it was not recognized upon restarting, but simply
unplugging and plugging it back in did the trick.
If someone with more knowledge than me thinks thats a terrible idea, please
respond. This method worked for me so I figured Id share, but Id hate to ruin
someones day with bad advice. Just trying to help!
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kylek says:
November 11, 2014 at 3:51 am
You may want / need to revisit the first step in the article, and double check
that you are using a **GUID** Partition when erasing/partitioning your drive.
I am not trying to insult intelligence, and you have probably already done
this, however, this is a frequently overlooked step for MANY people, and is
also the easiest fix. Your Mac wont boot from a Master Boot Record (MBR)
drive without significant work on your part. I only managed this once, but I
am by no means a pro with Mac. I tend to be a little better with Windows.
I experienced a problem when I followed the directions with an eight GB

drive. I saw that others said that it worked, so I tried it; it installed to the
drive properly, but I had trouble booting on one of the computers we have
for interns (2010 MBP, 2.4GHz, 16 GB RAM). Although it doesnt seem like a
big change, when I used a 16 GB drive, it worked first shot. It will also work
with an SD card on every one I tried.
If you, or anyone else, is having trouble and would like to double check that
you have a GUID Partition Table, open your Disk Utility tool > Click the
drive name NOT the partition on the drive but the one which is leftaligned. (ex. (mine is: 16.04 GB APPLE SD Card)) > Partition will be the
center option in the main window for the drive, but will not appear if you are
in the partition. > Change Partition Layout from Current to 1 Partition.
> Below the lower-right corner of the graphical depiction of your disk, click
on Options, and select the first option GUID Partition Table.
If one of the other two options is checked, click the top (GUID) option, make
sure you select Mac OS Extended (Journalized) as the format, and change
the name from Untitled 1 to Untitled. When you click Apply your disk
will be wiped clean, and you can copy / paste the information from the first
box (sudo through nointeraction) under the second step. Wait for it to copy
again, and give it a shot.
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charles ghareh says:

March 7, 2015 at 8:51 am
i have a simple problem

,my hard drive jus got damaged and had to change it and my imac is
when i bought it used to run on os lion ( the old version ) and now i
changed the drive but i cant download the lion cause its not available
on app and i cant run another installer like yoso or other versions of
macintosh what can i do ?
well i have only one imac and no more laptop to download or make
bootable usb
what should i do ?
Mishendr says:
October 16, 2014 at 10:52 pm
A question about the order of the first steps: isnt creating a new partition layout already
erasing everything on the disk? Wouldnt it be less steps (well one actually) if you select 1
partition, with options for GUID and then apply?
Or is this a old, old remnant of the Windows era-thinking.?
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Mishendr says:
October 16, 2014 at 10:56 pm
BTW: Diskmaker X App has just been updated to support 10.10, its even easier that way to
make a OS X bootable disk.
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Prairiewalker says:
October 17, 2014 at 12:19 pm
Can you share the URL for the Diskmaker X app that works with the released
Yosemite?
I used the Terminal command to create a bootable installer for Yosemite on an 8GB
flash thumb drive and it worked nicely, but Id like to have the Diskmaker X app also.
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Patrick M says:
Not to be a dick, but

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Diskmaker+X
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Matt says:
Not to be a dick, but lemme just be a dick

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Brad says:
August 29, 2015 at 10:54 am
Lol!
simonka.says says:
Nice advise. DiskMaker is the answer!!!

Solved all problems like You must specify both the volume and install
application path. and Failed to start erase of disk due to error (-9999, 0). Yes I
met both.
Thank you!
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PCTech says:
This will happen if the machine you are attempting to create the install
media on is not compatible with Yosemite. I ran into the same problem
trying to do this on my old Mini that topped on out 10.6.8 once I
attempted on my 2012 MBP it ran fine.
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Compufixgb says:
March 25, 2015 at 2:46 pm
I was getting the same error until i used this code:

Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia volume
/Volumes/Untitled applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\
Yosemite.app nointeraction
try that
Wharf Xanadu says:

October 16, 2014 at 10:59 pm
Awesome thanks, just made a bootable UsB disk out of a spare 16GB drive!!
Piece of cake!!
If you have an old boot drive you can rename it to Untitled and then run command line
syntax too. Boot with Option key and select Yosemite from the options of three
Yosemite!!!!! Yo. Sem. Uh. Tee!
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Anonymous says:
October 16, 2014 at 11:07 pm
If anyone has problems like cant find mountpoint simply edit the terminal command
ensuring to include a \ before each space.
So for example:
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia
volume /Volumes/Untitled applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app
nointeraction
I would change /Volumes/Untitled to /Volumes/Untitled\ 1
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Nuwan says:
Thanks dude :*
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Abe says:
October 25, 2014 at 10:07 pm
Can you help me?

This is what I get after I copy and paste into terminal from the original article:
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Rbn says:
Abe,
Maybe your volume is named Untitled 1? If its the case, then you need to type
as Anonymous said above:
If anyone has problems like cant find mountpoint simply edit the terminal
command ensuring to include a \ before each space.
So for example:
/Volumes/Untitled\ 1 applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app
nointeraction
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Efrain says:
January 13, 2015 at 9:16 pm
I was having the same problem. Make sure your main HD is not titled Untitled
as well. Mine was so I redid everything in this tutorial but named the partition in
my thumdrive Myyosemitedrive instead. I also edited the command for terminal
to this:
/Volumes/Myyosemitedrive applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\
That should get you going.
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Lars Justinen says:

August 20, 2015 at 2:17 pm
You must specify both the volume and install application path.
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Andy says:
Great thanks
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Caraline says:
October 16, 2014 at 11:37 pm
Thank you. You made this so easy and it works like a charm.
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Greg says:
October 16, 2014 at 11:52 pm
Mine has been copying the installer files for the last 8-10 minutes still doing it. How long
did it take for you other guys?
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Makoto says:
It took about an hour for me.

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Shilo Watts says:

16 minutes
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luka says:
October 21, 2014 at 11:03 am
I think this will depend on the version of the USB port on your pendrive.
Here took 15 minutes: (USB 3.0).
I think USB2.0 will take a little longer.
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Kosta says:
If I just copy the Yosemite.app into a USB drive and then copy it on to the target macs
application folder, then run it from there, will this also work?
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Freerider says:
Yes, copying the Install OS X Yosemite app to Applications will work, but youll need to
change the security settings to allow installing apps from everyone.
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Andr says:
It will
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Jimlat says:
Worked for meyou just cant boot from the USB drivecopy it to the desktop or run
from the USB
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paul says:
Yes that will work as well, however it would not be bootable. But to perform a simple
update rather than a clean install, that would be sucient.
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tortugahq says:
September 20, 2015 at 3:05 pm
I think so.
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Asad says:
I am very thank full to osxdaily .thank you very mooch love u gyz
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Asad says:
much
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Arjun says:
sudo: /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia:

command not found
this is what showing when i tried
please help
thanks
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wowze says:
It says command not found because you are not using the proper command, or you
dont have the Installer in the /Applications folder
This is the command:
Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia volume /Volumes/Untitled\ 1
applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app nointeraction
Here are the instructions. You should read the instructions:
http://osxdaily.com/2014/10/16/make-os-x-yosemite-boot-install-drive/
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Abe says:
October 25, 2014 at 10:13 pm
I followed the instructions to the point and after I copy and paste the command
in terminal this is what I get:
Can you help?
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Adel says:
sudo /DDMac/Applications/Installer\ OS\ X\

Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia volume /Volumes/Yosemite
Commande not found
what is rong ?
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rong? WRONG says:

This is the command:

Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia volume /Volumes/Untitled
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Adel says:
hi everyone
its ok i did this change and it works.
nointeraction
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Catherine says:
May 28, 2015 at 10:04 am
In a line of command, even the spaces are important. Many people forget that. It
worked perfectly for me thanks to OS X Daily.And depending on your keyboard, typing
may have a dierent outcome.
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TTTT says:
I past this:
volume /Volumes/Untitled\1 applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app
nointeraction
Not worked
You must specify both the volume and install application path. ????
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itb says:
Correct, you need to rename the drive to Untitled (the default when it is formatted)
as outlined in Step 1.4, then use the proper command for that name. Or if youre going
to continue to keep the drive as Untitled 1, escape the character properly:
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Anastasya says:
Mine is still showing:

Any suggestions?
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inbto says:
Go to the App Store > Updates > look next to OS X Yosemite and click on
the Upgrade button
Thats what you should do, this is too complex this is way advanced
technical stu, most users are not fit for this making of a USB boot installer.
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Anastasya says:
Are you like me?
Catherine says:
May 28, 2015 at 10:08 am
You can use DriveMaker X (downloading the corresponding version

depending on you version of OS X. Its a donation ware free but you
can donate) and it will do the job for your. But doing the thing yourself
teaches your more and anyway youll still have to learn how to
properly format a usb drive for Yosemite.
Td says:
i solved my by renaming the Untitled 1 from patition 1 to Untitled in Disk

Utility then apply. after this, i quit the Disk Utility and copy the code as
stated in the instruction and it worked.:)
/Volumes/Untitled applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\
Erasing Disk: 0% 10% 20% 30%100%
Copying installer files to disk
Copy complete.
Making disk bootable
Copying boot files
Copy complete.
Done.
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Compufixgb says:
March 25, 2015 at 2:47 pm
I was getting the same error until i used this code:

try that it should work
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TTTT says:
This worked. THANK YOUUUU

volume /Volumes/Untitled\ 1 applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app
nointeraction
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Abe says:
October 25, 2014 at 10:22 pm
I just copied your command and I get the same message:

Any help?
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James says:

nointeraction
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Kurt Hanson says:

October 17, 2014 at 10:22 am
Another utilitarian tip.

Glad I found this website.
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Bill Luckie says:

October 17, 2014 at 12:01 pm
I followed the instructions and never did see anything after Copying installer files to disk
in Terminal. I exited Terminal and looked at the USB Drive and it appeared all required files
were there, and it did boot without any problem.
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Jalal says:
October 17, 2014 at 12:23 pm
Thank you guys for fast update on your site.

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Ahmed Abunuwara says:

October 17, 2014 at 12:33 pm
I got an (Error code 112)

Erasing Disk: 0% 10% 20% 30%100%
Copy complete.
Couldnt mount dmg /Volumes/Install OS X Yosemite/Install OS X
Yosemite.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg (error code 112)Mount of outer
dmg failed.
Done.
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Ahmed Abunuwara says:

October 17, 2014 at 12:33 pm
Is Yosemite installer dose install HD Recovery Partition?

coz i deleted accidentally
Thanks
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Scott says:
Tried this twice and both time this is the result.

Scotts-MacPro:~ Twitchy$ sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\

Password:
Erasing Disk: 0% 10% 20% 30%100%
The copy of the installer app failed.
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oaul says:
Interesting, try reformatting the destination drive, HFS+ Journaled, set to GUID, try
command again. Or try another drive.
Has worked flawlessly for me with multiple attempts on multiple USB flash drives, all
have been 16GB or greater though. Perhaps the destination disk does not have
adequate storage? Some say 8GB works but it failed for me a long time ago with
ML so I went to 16GB only for installers.
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Scott says:
October 18, 2014 at 11:02 am
Tried the above procedure all over again this morning using a Kingston 32gb
flash, worked fine. Go figure!
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Clyde says:
I had the same error. Unfortunately, my mac now does not detect my pen drive.
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Jey says:
will it kill the windows installation beside the osx maverick if I upgrade to yosemite? I have
installed windows 8 with bootcamp.
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dasdgs says:
No not unless you overwrite Windows 8

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Helmut says:
I typed this into terminal

nointeraction
I get a message saying: You must specify both the volume and install application path
What have I done wrong?
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kermop says:
Youre using the wrong command and not the one provided. Check your syntax, you
are not escaping the 1 and you are not using a double-dash. This is just one small
example of why its important to use proper syntax.
Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia volume /Volumes/Untitled\ 1\
Follow instructions for best results, dont deviate from recommended advice.
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khalil says:
wtf it still says cant specify loction and i have the\1 and everytrhing this is pissing
me o I put the write command
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Anastasya says:
Having the same problem

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newtomac says:
Diskmaker X App worked like a charm.

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swedane says:
October 18, 2014 at 12:15 am
Followed the instructions to a tee and it worked like a charm.

This old lady is overjoyed by learning something I considered to be foreign, thanks for that!
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vampyren says:
October 18, 2014 at 12:24 am
Thank you , just what i needed, its now copying to USB drive, will install later tonight once i
made backups.
Great step by step guide!
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Eridan says:
You can use 8 GB USB drive, too. Works without problems.

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r00t says:
work for me legit.,
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Josh says:
Would be cool if you could run an article on how to go from Yosemite (the ugliest OS Apple
has ever released) back to Mavericks. Thats the problem I and many others have been
facing and I used your excellent instructions for making a bootable USB drive with
Mavericks OS and then use that to install over Yosemite, to return my Mac to its former
glory.
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Kivinprod says:
Failed to start erase of disk due to error (-9999, 0).

A error occurred erasing the disk.
tired it on two dierent USB drives.. same error message
what am I doing wrong?
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xGigantorx says:
October 18, 2014 at 11:07 am
You need to be on Mavericks to make the USB installer disk.

Try http://liondiskmaker.com/ instead.
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Mac mini says:

October 18, 2014 at 12:18 pm
Getting same error, any suggestions, tried dierent USB? Than ks

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Timothy Jack says:

Thanks for the succinct write up!

I too had this issue:

This is because I was using an older system (10.6.8 Snow Leopard Mac). Which wont
work.
Try using a newer Mac OS. I got it to work, using another computer that already had
Yosemite on it.
It might be worth noting this in the article for those that find this in the future.
Thanks,
TJ
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petre says:
Make sure the command line current directory is not in the flash drive
(/Volumes/Untitled or your flash drive name). It will fail to lock the drive. in my
case this was the issue. I created the flash installer for Yosemite using a
Mountain Lion (10.8) with createinstallmedia.
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petre says:
and also other application using the flash drive.

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themanfromuncle says:
Worked perfectly here.

On an 8GB USB stick.
Creating the stick after pasting the terminal command took around 25 mins. (15 rMBP late
2013).
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xGigantorx says:
October 18, 2014 at 11:03 am
I have an iMac 2009 and when I installed Yosemite it spit out an error. Asked me to reboot. I
rebooted and it would not boot. No recovery boot option either. Just a kernel panic each
time I try to boot.
My only other backup is my girlfriends old Late 2006 Macbook Pro (not compatible with
Yosemite). First I had trouble obtaining the Yosemite install media. Found it on the net
because the App Store wont even let you download it with a system that is not compatible.
Then I got to step 2 in the post above. I received an error basically stating that you needed
to have OS X 10.9 Mavericks installed. Great, Im on 10.6 on this MacBook Pro.
End of the story. Download Liondiskmaker.com and it saved my ass a ton of headaches
and trouble. Check it out
http://liondiskmaker.com/
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Ludo says:
Hey Im getting an error when I try to tun the install. It goes This copy of the Install OS X
Yosemite application cant be verified. It may have been corrupted or tampered with during
downloading. Anyone have a solution this this problem? Using a late 2009 MacBook pro
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hashy says:
Wow thats a curious error. Did you get the OS X Yosemite Installer from the Mac App
Store? If not, you may want to check the MD5 hash of the Yosemite Installer.DMG file
to be sure its intact as how it arrives from Apple. Easy way to do that is with the
openssl command:
% openssl md5 /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\
Yosemite.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg
MD5(/Applications/Install OS X
Yosemite.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg)=
8d3187fa7699366e1723c28abd78acc8
So, does the OS X Yosemite InstallESD.dmg file has a dierent MD5 sum?
You can learn more about checking MD5 sum here:
http://osxdaily.com/2009/10/13/check-md5-hash-on-your-mac/
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tapio says:
October 21, 2014 at 12:20 pm
I have the same problem as Ludo, I got the Yosemite installer from App store.
MD5 is dierent though
MD5(/Applications/Install OS X
Yosemite.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg)=
45990cf5738de8e329ebf2652564689d
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tapio says:
October 21, 2014 at 12:23 pm
At least this solution did not help -> http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5307

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Ludo says:
For anyone having the issue I had above. Find a way to open terminal and you can set the
date by entering the line:
Date 101818132014
Thats october 18 6:13 pm 2014 and now its working!!
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Samuel says:
October 20, 2014 at 12:30 pm
I have the same issue. SoI just set todays date/time in terminal?
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Matt says:
Setting the date worked a charm to fix this error for me as well. Im doing a clean
install onto a new SSD, and Id disconnected the battery while upgrading the disk and
RAM hence the date had reset to 2000.
Mac packages are signed, so the date has to be correct and within the validity period
of the signing cert.
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Neil says:
October 22, 2014 at 10:14 pm
Ludo, you are a genius. Ive been struggling to re-install the OS for more than a week
on a MacBook Pro where I replaced the HD (and unplugged the battery while I did it).
Thanks!
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Dan says:
+1
I was banging my head on the mainframe over this one. Just setting the date
fixed it.
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Ben says:
Same for me. Ludos solution worked fine. Thanks

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Daniel says:
You are the best man! Change the date and be happy!
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eWeezie says:
Ludo! Youre Brilliant! Thank You very much.

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Richard says:
Thanks!!! Worked for me.

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luis says:
I followed the steps to create the usb drive, but now I am having trouble just loading the old
os. How would I go about loading the old OS? Running yosemite from the usb is slow. I
want to just stick with the old os. Thank you.
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pau says:
October 19, 2014 at 10:49 am
Take the USB stick out of the Mac and reboot without installing it, that will boot back
into OS X Mavericks, assuming you didnt upgrade the old version of OS X anyway.
And yes, running anything from USB would be slow, it belongs on the main hard disk.
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Dan says:
It worked with 5.5GB. I had a 32Gb USB drive and did not want to waste space. I originally
used a 16GB slot but after installation, I noticed that it only took 5.25GB of space, so I
figured 5.5 is safe.
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Carl says:
This approach worked great. Thank you.

Can I take a 125GB drive partition it with say 5 dierent partitions and install dierent
installers on each? And then from the boot menu chose which install Id like Yosemite,
Mavericks, Mountain Lion etc?
Also, a related question, can I partition a larger 1TB drive and install dierent operating
systems on each partition? So I could have one partition with Mountain Lion installed and
another with Mavericks (for legacy purposes)?
Cheers!
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ok says:
October 19, 2014 at 10:36 am
yes
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Carl says:
Thank you. So in the terminal text I only change Untitled to Untitled1,

Untitled2 etc?
Many thanks!
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bawer says:
please help i have done all of the above instruction and it went great but when i reboot my
laptop to boot the installer ,there is no boot on the usb
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Kapesh says:
October 19, 2014 at 10:33 am
Here is how you can make an OS X Yosemite boot installer, and boot from that
installer USB. Dont skip any steps, if you skip any steps it wont work:
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Ilan Aisic says:

October 19, 2014 at 10:59 am
I did as instructed and got:
Erasing Disk: 0% 10% 20% 30%100%

Copy complete.
Couldnt mount dmg /Volumes/OS X Install ESD/BaseSystem.dmg (error code 112)Copying
boot files
Failed to copy kernelcache, The file kernelcache couldnt be opened because there is no
such file.
Done.
Any advice?
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paul says:
October 19, 2014 at 11:05 am
Re-download the OS X Yosemite installer from the Mac App Store, something is
probably wrong with the installer app if it is missing files.
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Pete says:
October 19, 2014 at 12:40 pm
This is what I get still:

user$ sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\
I am going to use this on a dierent internal HD.
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no says:
Wow wtf! How about a little bit more explanation of what that terminal command does and
what to watch out for This just formatted one of my windows harddrives! If youre going
to do a step by step article than fing warn people before you tell them to do a step.
Unbelievable.
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FFS says:
October 19, 2014 at 10:20 pm
You had Windows running on the same USB drive that you expected to make a
bootable installer from, really? How would that be possible? Could you drink a glass of
milk from a block of cheese? Or did you name your Windows drive Untitled?? Didnt
read the instructions? Why is reading comprehension so bad in America now? One of
the requirements even says that you need a drive you dont mind formatting. Reading
is important. Backups are important too.
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Matt says:
What hes saying is he had a Windows partition (probably from Bootcamp) called
Untitled and it wiped it.
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Jonathan says:
August 31, 2015 at 3:49 pm
Youre a moron.
If you dont understand Terminal commands, dont play with them.
Its *you* thats unbelievable.

Moron.
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Pete says:
Figured it out, this is what I used:

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digitalcrow says:
That was perfect !

I knew about this but i couldnt remember some switches
Thank you !
Im creating my usb flash stick right now cause i need a freshly installed system.
Also i want express a complaint about how apple install its software to new devices.
When i bought my mac mini and booted it was slow then i made a fresh install and was
performing very good. Dont know what was the problem ? maybe something wrong about
apples installation of osx ? not sure
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Lexxie says:
Why 16GB or more stick? 8GB is more than enough: i made several already.
Lex
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Matt says:
I followed the steps exactly and this is the error Im getting:

Error erasing disk error number (-69888, 0)
What should I do?
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Craig says:
October 20, 2014 at 11:11 am
Followed all the instructions and now waiting on Terminal to do its thing. It says copying
files but its been stuck on 1.22 GB of file size on the USB drive, which is a 16GB file. I
know it takes a long time to transfer, but its just saying 1.22 GB for at least 20 minutes. Do I
need to be more patient or start all over?
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Craig says:
October 20, 2014 at 11:12 am
Instead of 16GB file I meant 16GB drive.

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Craig says:
October 20, 2014 at 11:24 am
OK, it *finally* finished after about 45 minutes, most of them stuck on 1.22 GB. Now
apparently is all there, at 5.17 GB.
Wouldnt have been stressful if the file size would change every now and then.
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aaricus says:
I am experiencing problems, as always, trying to update my Mac Pro. I think its a mid 2010,
only 4 years old and very well specd that should give me years and years of use still with
nearly 20 ghz in total.
But each and every time they release a new OS X, I have problems!
The crux of the issue is that the mid 2010 Mac Pro does not have the boot from Internet
feature, which exists in newer Macs and allows them to re-download a fresh copy of OS X
straight from the bios so to speak and o you go.
Well as Apple had not released this feature when my Mac Pro was released (they took
forever to release a new Mac Pro and so now I am locked into this older model, needless to
say within weeks of my purchase they released a new model), I have to either do the
upgrade through a working OS X install & Apple have ceased to provide installation media,
such as a DVD or USB even if you want to pay for it (which I think is stupid, it should be
provided for free to Apple Care customers as a minimum!, we did PAY for better level of
care after all!).
So I have to go through this process and try to make my own USB install every single time
and every single time there is problems. Im trying to make the install for the second time
now. Because the first time didnt work.
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fabrice says:
October 21, 2014 at 11:13 am
What is going wrong with my mac mini

When Im trying update it it always goes wrong = Last time it ended @apple store
pc1:~ fabrice$ sudo /Applications/Install OS X
applicationpath /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app nointeraction
WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss
or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your
typing when using sudo. Type man sudo for more information.
To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.
Password:
Erasing Disk: 0% 10% 20% 30%100%
Copy complete.
Copying boot files
Failed to copy kernelcache, kernelcache couldnt be copied to .IABootFiles.
Done.
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r says:
October 21, 2014 at 11:24 am
Your Installer may not have finished downloading. Get it from the App Store and install
it the normal way.
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Kumar says:
July 16, 2015 at 10:13 am
I have got message in first go. But Did format again and ran command. It
worked.
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JCS says:
Not sure what Im doing wrong, but when a copy and paste into terminal, then enter my
password this is the output
Any ideas what would be causing this?
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QA says:
Im going to guess: either not having made a volume with a single partition named
Untitled -or- for some reason the partition you made is unable to be mounted. I would
re-read the instructions carefully, and if youre sure youve followed them correctly,
maybe eject and re-mount your USB drive and try again.
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nick says:
this may be a stupid question. but I have already upgraded to Yosemite from Mavericks,
and now I realize I would like to do a Clean Install. Do I follow the same instructions? Do I
need to (or can I even) re-download the Yosemite Installer from the App Store? Or is it
already on my system and ready to go? Just need to know if I have to do something else
because I definitely want to do a clean install. Thank you so much, awesome
tutorials/articles here, I will definitely keep coming back!
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Paul says:
If you already updated to Yosemite on the Mac, which deletes the installer when OS X
finishes updating, you would need to download the installer again from the App Store.
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nick says:
Paul, thank you, much appreciated!

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Felixecoga says:
Can I still use the free space of USB as a normal storage device after this procedure
without loosing the bootable benefit ??
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Dr.J says:
After I created a boot drive of OS X Yosemite, is it enough for a clean install of old hard
drive/OS of new hard drive? or do i need to install the previous mavericks first then use the
Yosemite boot drive?
Thank You
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Helge Fabricius says:

October 22, 2014 at 12:10 pm
Hi, Great description.

Will the same command work to create the recovery partition by just changing the volume
name?
Thanks
Helge
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sreedhar says:
Last login: Thu Oct 23 09:40:17 on ttys000

DRs-MacBook-Air:~ sreedhar$ sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\
DRs-MacBook-Air:~ sreedhar$
i got this after enter what is the cause
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Abe says:
October 23, 2014 at 11:04 pm
I entered in terminal as described in the article:

nointeraction
I have an error:
Can some one help me?
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heper says:
October 24, 2014 at 12:27 pm
Just use the Installer from the Mac App Store, that is what you should do to upgrade
to Yosemite. Back up your Mac first.
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Abe says:
Thanks for the reply but perhaps you didnt get my point. I want to do a clean
install of Yosemite therefore I need to create a bootable stick. I know I can just
upgrade o of the app store if I wanted to.
Any help on the message from Terminal is greatly appreciated, I really need
create a bootable USB stick.
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JR Morales says:
Abe, you just need to add the following after the word Untitled:
\1
[Theres a space between the forward slash and the one]
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Teasip says:
October 25, 2014 at 10:30 am
C/P string into terminal, asks for password, and then wont accept admin password (Admin
password known and correctly typed in on multiple occasions). Suggestions?
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peoplenoreado says:
October 25, 2014 at 11:33 am
It says right on there, the password wont show up in Terminal. You type it and hit
Return anyway to execute the command. Hiding the admin password typed into the
Terminal is a security feature.
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Jesper Simonsen says:

October 25, 2014 at 11:31 am
An 8 GB USB stick is enough to make the bootable Yosemite installer. (I just made one). No
need for 16 GB stick.
PEACE
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John says:
October 27, 2014 at 10:21 pm
If I have already installed OS Yosemite, can I still do a clean install, and wipe my hard drive
and have OS Yosemite installed after wiping hard drive?
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Rbn says:
Yes, you can. Just follow the same procedure stated in the article.
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Minsu says:
WTF that termial command formatted my exernal hdd that also named untitled
This would not happened if you used other names.. (WHY USE UNTITLED??? its so
common name-_-)
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QA says:
Agreed! Why did you use Untitled (for your external HDD) its such a common name.
The author of this article and you both had the option of choosing a dierent name.
Nobody enjoys losing data and I do empathize. But in all fairness you share half of the
accountability in this case. :-/
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UNTITLED says:
When you format a drive it names itself to UNTITLED, thus the name UNTITLED
is used here. Change the name if you want to, but if you cant follow instructions
or know how to check for proper syntax you should not be using the command
line at all. Install OS X Yosemite from the App Store instead.
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Anastasya says:
Ok, i have a problem. 1st time i did everything following the instruction and i had
downloading process in my terminal: Erasing Disk: 0% 10% 20% 30%100%
BUT
right now i cant format and erase my usb and try again because its called Install OS X
Yosemite. Im trying to do Partition again and again using name Untitled but its showing
Partition failed with the error:
Couldnt unmount disk.
Then im trying to erase volume but: Volume Erase failed with the error:
Couldnt unmount disk.
Can you help me please?
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nita says:
So select the USB drive and format that, rather than the partition.
You may have corrupted the installer file if you see copy errors, or the destination drive
may be bad.
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Anastasya says:
It was good before I followed the instruction. Well I downloaded an update from
app store. Have no idea. Will try to format it. But how?)
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Aldreaon Smith says:

Doesnt Work For Me, This Is What I Get:

wireless-152-13-40-199:~ SupremeTheGreat$ sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\
Erasing Disk: 0%
Error erasing disk error number (-69888, 0)
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Gonatim says:
The target disk is probably locked or corrupt, try a dierent USB flash drive. Also
make sure the target USB volume is named Untitled and not something else.
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Snowman says:
I had the same error when trying after a failure.

After getting the error I did a ls /Volumes and could that in addition to having
Untitled I also had a OS X Install ESD mounted. I ejected the USB. Plugged it back in
and did a ls /Volumes again and OS X Install ESD was gone. I then ran the command
again and it worked.
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Winstong says:
I am in mid way redownload OS X after erasing the HD. Now my friend told me to skip that
and create bootable USB. Can I boot up my macbook air and create bootable USB then
redownload OSX?Instead of redownload OSX and create bootable disk?
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gabriel says:
Any ideas why this happened or solutions for it >

dmg failed.
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Cheryl Detrick says:

I have a similar error with dierent code:

Yosemite.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg (error code -4960)Mount of
outer dmg failed
The USB is now titled Install OS X Yosemite and the file is the correct size, but I dont
want to move forward if it wont mount. Help please?
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P says:
Well when i make my USB stick and name it Untitled 1 i get this error on Terminal.
nointeraction
But when i name just Untitled everything is ok.
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QA says:
OK, heres a question I dont think has been asked yet what if I want to use my USB drive
for something else now, until that someday when I may need to use this installer? Can I
select this volume Install OS X Yosemite in the Disk Utility sidebar and then click New
Image to make a .dmg of the entire contents of the USB drive and then reformat the USB
drive, use it as normal, then (someday) re-image the USB drive from the .dmg just as it
was? Im not sure about the re-imaging part.
Heres another one: Can I add another partition to this USB drive and use that other
partition for storage, or will it interfere with the installer?
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Snowman says:
Ive downloaded the installer 3 times now. Once at home, once at work and once on a
dierent machine and with all of them I get the Failed to copy kernel cache error
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gfresh says:
Made the installer on USB stick, however contents of the drive only has the Install OS X
Yosemite on it, none of the other elements these instructions show. (System, Library, Usr,
etc). Did I do this incorrectly?
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oscar says:
when trying to open the partition layout tab it will not give me the option to open it! Why is
this?
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Mack Fackie says:

December 17, 2014 at 7:04 pm
Try booting into a rescure environment and running fdisk against your drive. Delete all
of the partitions and reboot.
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Brian says:
After entering the first command in Terminal, I enter my password in described in this sites
instructions, and I get the following error message:
sudo: /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia:
command not found
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Nye says:
Ive created a Yosemite install disk using this method with no problems but now want to do
the same with Mountain Lion.
In the terminal string what should I change Yosemite.app to?
Is there a way to see what the system name for the installer is?
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joshst says:
I get to the Terminal part and it doesnt work. says:

any ideas?
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Mario says:
I get this reply on terminal:

/Volumes/Untitled is not a valid volume mount point
what do I do?
thanks
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Omg says:
Mario, you should update to OS X Yosemite from the App Store. Thats what you
should do. This is for advanced users with command line experience. If you cant
correct the syntax for your situation, and follow instructions step by step, you most
certainly should not use this, you could break something.
Back up your hard drive and update with the App Store.
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Jonathan says:
August 31, 2015 at 3:52 pm
+1
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Wkenddad says:
After Im finished with the creation instructions and I view the Thumb Drive in Finder all I
see is the Install OS X Yosemite.app file.
Is there a trick to seeing the hidden/system files in the Thats all there is to it. Your freshly
made OS X Yosemite install drive will be visible in the Mac Finder: screenshot above?
Its the 5th screenshot I believe.
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pua says:
Youd have to enable hidden files visibility to see this, its not practical for most users:
http://osxdaily.com/2009/02/25/show-hidden-files-in-os-x/
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Gabbo says:
Help, second time I post this. Anyone have an idea what went wrong and how to solve it.
Thanks!
dmg failed
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Jeremy says:
Strange problem.
I made the boot drive. It worked. However I messed up some transferring of files from my
old user and want to start over with a clean install again. This time the boot drive does not
work. I tried to make another and no dice. Nothing boots, just sits on a black screen.
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Angelo says:
Hello
Followed all the instructions above but Its not working.
At first I had the issue Volumes/Untitled is not a valid volume mount point and now You
must specify both the volume and install application path and the syntax is correct..i copy
and paste: sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\
applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app nointeraction..from Kermop and
I have the same message again..have you got any ideas?
Thank you in advance!
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Matt says:
For me, the Copying Installer files step took a very long time. I thought it had hung. But
you can open Activity Monitor, go to the Disk tab, and find createinstallmedia in the list. If
Bytes Written is still going up, then its still working.
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metsoul says:
January 31, 2015 at 6:34 am
Thanks Matt,
This was super helpful and reduced my stress greatly!
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Mike says:
Hi all
Anybody can help me It appears allways the same error
Thank you all
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Gwp says:
Double-check your command syntax and make sure you are pointing at the proper
EXTERNAL USB drive you want to use, it must be 16GB in size, not locked, and
formatted for GUID. Error -9999 usually means the drive is locked or in use.
You should probably just update with the App Store.
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Anastasya says:
Im a loser
Erasing Disk: 0% 10% 20% 30%100%
What can be wrong?
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Juan says:
Help! same problem here trying to create a flash drive installer. It gives me error
I am on a Mac Pro (early 2008) running 10.6.8. I have already downloaded Yosemite and I
need to have it installed in both my Mac Pros (early 2008) running 10.6.8.
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Swisscheese says:
Juan,
Creating the flash start-up drive may be futile in this case. I cant boot up a Mac Pro
(early 2008) from a working flash drive created on a new mac. aaricus above posted
that these earlier Mac Pros lack some facility that prevents them from recognising the
flash boot drive. I am now resorting to clean-installing Snow Leopard, then updating to
10.6.8 (required), and then updating to Yosemite from the flash drive (no clean install). I
trust that this will work, albeit cumbersome.
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tammy says:
December 5, 2014 at 1:00 am
I did the above but still got the error message

This copy of install OS X Yosemite application cant be verified. It may have been corrupted
or tampered with during downloading
Can anyone help?! This keeps happening
Thanks
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Darwin says:
You should probably add in the article that you shouldnt have another drive named
Untitled also plugged in or partioned o from your main HDD. I blindly copy and pasted
the terminal entry and it formated the wrong drive. Not a big hassle for me, but wasted a
few minutes.
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Rally says:
Disk Utility automatically labels formatted drives as Untitled, who names a hard drive
Untitled by choice? And run who on earth runs a command line code snip without
checking syntax to make sure it applies to them?
Frankly if someone doesnt know how to change a hard drive name they should not be
trying to use the command line let alone making a boot installer or doing anything
complex. Use the App Store and update that way, this is way over their head.
Reminds me of the people with Windows who deleted Internet Explorer and think the
internet is gone, good grief people, this is not for everyone.
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Lars Boldt says:

Hi,
I cant open old backup dvds in Yosemite, anyone with same problem?
When inserting dvds come in emty.
Lars
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Travis says:
POSSIBLE SOLUTION TO: You must specify both the volume and install application path
Ok, Im kind of a noob at this, but I was getting the same error. However, after repeating all
the steps again, I realized I may not have erased the space after renaming the partition
Untitled. I erased the number 1, but not the space. Make sure there isnt a hidden space
after Untitled
I didnt read every comment, so my apologies if this was already covered.
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MoFu says:
I find it smarter to just install Yosemite with the installer to an external hdd or stick (dont
know the required size of the stick) then boot up the recovery partition on the external
device and install/update from that, no need to use terminal, and you will have an external
OSX to boot for diagnostic use as well (very usefull to recover data from an unbootable
internal drive, test software before installing or simply just have your own OS with you
whithout having your to bring your Mac ).
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Arjuna says:
Hiya.
got to the below step
nointeraction
WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss
or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your
typing when using sudo. Type man sudo for more information.
To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.
Password:
please comment what Ive done wrong?
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Julian Woods says:

I wanted to test Yosemite on an external drive before taking the plunge to upgrade my
MacBook Pro from Maverick to Yosemite. I followed the instructions exactly and ended up
with (what looked like) a nice bootable Yosemite installer on a 16GB thumb drive labelled
Install OS X Yosemite. After re-booting my Mac and choosing the installer drive, I chose
to install the Yosemite on a suitably prepared external drive (Mac journaled, GUID partition
etc.). Everything worked fine until the progress bar showed About a second remaining,
Then all progress stopped and I didnt get the promised reboot.
However, as instructed in your other excellent post (http://osxdaily.com/2014/10/17/os-xyosemite-installation-stuck/) I waitedand waited. After about 4-5 hours of this a dialog
pops up saying, This copy of the install OS X Yosemite application cant be verified. It may
have been corrupted or tampered with during downloading. When I click the dialogs OK
button it simply reboots my MacBook Pro into its current system (which is Maverick).
Ive tried to do the install on two separate external drives with the same result.
Guess something went awry with the original download from Apple and I have to try
downloading another copy. What is this verification thats so important at the very end of
an install?
Anyone else had this problem? And is there any fix other than going through the hassle of a
second download from Apple?
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Max says:
I had a similar problem. My issue turned out to be that I had a slightly older version of
the Yosemite installer. I had created it a while back, and it was version 1.65. As of
today (12/26) the version is 1.67. Somehow the installer knows to check to see if you
have the latest version. My suggestion to you is to download a fresh copy, and do it all
over again. I was eventually able to get mine installed, and am using it to reply to you
now. Happy Holidays.
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Richard Ward says:

You could specify the drive name with quotes and remove the need to rename.
Example: volume /Volumes/Untitled 1
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Cheryl says:
tried several times and keep getting this:

unrecognized option `volume/Volumes/Untitled
Usage: createinstallmedia volume applicationpath [force]
Argumentsvolume, A path to a volume that can be unmounted and erased to create the
install media.
applicationpath, A path to copy of the OS installer application to create the bootable
media from.
nointeraction, Erase the disk pointed to by volume without prompting for confirmation.
Example: createinstallmedia volume /Volumes/Untitled applicationpath
/Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app
Please help!!
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Anna says:
Hi there,
Thanks for such a descriptive method to achieve this. I am new to using a mac and was
wondering if you could guide me with a question. I read in the steps described by you
above that in order to boot from the freshly made OS X Yosemite drive, one has to reboot
the Mac and holding down the OPTION key, select the Install OS X Yosemite drive upon
boot.
So my question is that when we select the Install OS X Yosemite drive upon boot, and
boot from there, does it delete the data which is right now on my unbootable internal drive?
I am concerned about loosing data from my internal hdd and at the moment, i cant even
take backups. So any clarity on this is really appreciated
Thanks,
Anna
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Wayne says:
Hi, I have completed your guide correctly and all went well, except when I tried to select
install osx yosemite after boot from usb i get the following error
os x full marketing name cannot be installed on this computer
Can someone please help as my mac is now formatted and out of action with no way of
restoring if I cant get this to work?
Thanks.
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Don says:
Use Internet Recovery to re-install OS X if you screwed up and tried to install the
wrong version, thsi will reinstall a version which works on your Mac:
http://osxdaily.com/2014/12/14/reinstall-os-x-mac-internet-recovery/
Or better yet, use the BACKUPS you made. You did make backups like you are
supposed to, right?
If its telling you the computer can not run OS X Yosemite, then it can not run OS X
Yosemite and there is no about of magic you can do to change that. System
requirements are set system requirements.
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Wayne says:
@Don, thanks for the prompt reply Don.

My macbook pro can run yosemite as I had it running for over 6 months after
performing an upgrade from mavericks, but the system had started to act up a
little probably due to subsequent upgrades over the years so I thought I would
perform a clean install but then I got the error listed above?
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Paul says:
Don has a good recommendation with System Restore. Reboot the Mac
and hold down Command+R or Command+Option+R to start the system
recovery process would be your best bet if your Yosemite install drive does
not work.
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Wayne says:
unfortunately it seems my MacBook pro does not support Internet restore as I only get a
flashing folder icon with a question mark inside?
As I dont have another Mac or a hard copy of any os x, is there a way I can use my
windows 7 machine to make another bootable os x USB or DVD?
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Don says:
Reboot and use Command+Option+R instead, you will need to connect to a wi-fi
router and it will download the restore partition to begin recovery from the internet.
Otherwise use the boot volume you made and choose to Re-install OS X from there.
You can not install OS X from Windows, no.
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Wayne says:
Well I have had to revert back to my snow leopard DVD to get back up and running.
Have now successfully upgraded to Yosemite (again!) but for some unknown reason I can
perform a fresh clean install with Yosemite on my late 2007 MacBook pro 17inch.
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Wayne says:
*cant perform a clean install

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Mike says:
I had problems at first using this to create a bootable USB installer but after I copy/paste
the commands it went smooth after that I must have been typing something in wrong. None
the less its copying installer files now and done!!!
Awesome thanks for the help
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Anonyms says:
IT TOOK 3 DAYS to find these instructions. I found lots of instructions as to how to do this
but they were so filled with crap I had no need for and extraneous other info and junk and
poor graphics, I gave up. THANK YOU TO WHOEVER put this together for your
STRAIGHTFORWARD just simply put the instructions down way. Why is it so fking dicult
for mostly men to set aside their egos and just write the damn instructions and find some
other way to boost their egos or get attention. THANK YOU again for posting this.
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Grant says:
IT TOOK 3 DAYS to find these instructions.

Three days? It took me .62 seconds using Google.
Was glad to find the instructions, too, although I also had problem with the copy/paste. As
Im making a Mavericks bootable USB, I had to replace Yosemite.app with
Mavericks.app. Would have been nice to have it as unformatted text. But after typing in
the command (twice) it appears to be working.
Its been more than 35 minutes, and Im still waiting to find out if it will work. Would also be
good to replace this may take a while with an estimate.
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danar says:
good info thanks

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Mary Coleen says:

THANK YOU VERY MUCH! <3 <3

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DAVIDSDIEGO says:
On installing Yosemite, I also replaced the battery on my old Mac and also received an
error, This copy of the Install OS X Yosemite application cant be verified. It may have been
corrupted or tampered with during downloading..
I found that I had to change the system date in Terminal. The site below helped me out
immensely.
https://bensmann.no/changing-system-date-from-terminal-os-x-recovery/
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AG says:
Thanks for the info.

Is there a way to partition the USB so that the OS X installer only takes up the space it
requires?
I have a 16GB usb drive, but would like to put both the OS X installer and a Windows OS
installer on that usb drive in two dierent bootable partition. Is that achievable?
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Eric says:
Will the terminal command work for Mavericks if I just substitute that for Yosemite and leave
everything else the same?
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PreludePresto says:
January 28, 2015 at 11:54 am
Does this specific command work for a reinstall as well? Id like to do a clean reinstall of the
Yosemite.
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Piernine says:
I followed your directions very carefully, copying and pasting the sudo command, 3 times
with 2 dierent downloads from Apple and 2 dierent USB sticks. I get the following error
every time.
Any suggestions?
Copy complete.
dmg failed.
Done.
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Reginaldo Marcilon says:

July 24, 2015 at 11:59 am
Close the Disk Utility.app and the Finder before execute the command on the
terminal. It works for me.
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Jordan T. Boehm says:

I must note that, pertaining to Ahmed Abunuwaras post, a new drive got rid of the
Mount of outer dmg failed problem. I was using a Toshiba 512GB SSD which was having
that problem, I switched to a Western Digital 250GB (non-SSD), and it worked with no error.
Yay! Hope this helps others with the same issue. Now.. what the hell is up with this Toshiba
drive!?
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kenji says:
I followed directions exactly but upon using Terminal.app the data wouldnt load bringing
back an error:
/Volumes/Untitled is not a valid volume mount point
I did some Googling and figured out naming the USB volume Untitled was the issue. I
changed the name of the USB stick to YosemiteInstaller and exchanged that name for
Untitled in the code typed into Terminal.app and it worked flawlessly.
Something else must be named Untitled on my machine causing the prob.
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Martina says:
Hello,
What can i do if i by mistake installed Yosemite and now I cant find it anywhere. I tried
downloading it again from the app store (waited 4 hours) and still cannot find the OS X
Yosemite.app. Is tehre another way of saving Yosemite on a USB ?
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Yea says:
You can re-download OS X Mavericks or OS X Yosemite from the OS X Yosemite App

Store like this: http://osxdaily.com/2014/12/30/re-download-os-x-mavericks-
installer-from-os-x-yosemite-app-store/
It will be in your Purchases tab to re-download, then end up in the /Applications/
folder
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susie says:
March 8, 2015 at 1:11 am
I ran the terminal message and put in my pswd then got a message that says:-bash:
wonderwoman1: command not found
SusieEsevessMBP:~ suzesteves$
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Bill says:
March 8, 2015 at 2:29 pm
Dumb question but are there blank character spaces in the command line?
As in after the slashes before OS and before X and before Yosemite
ns/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app nointeraction
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Rob says:
March 17, 2015 at 4:11 pm
I know this is an older post, But I am using it to wipe/clean install a mid 2010 Mac Mini. Ive
tried a handful of times and after a long wait with the initial step (before rebooting) I get an
error that says The Copy Of the install OS X Yosemite application cant be verified, It may
have been tampered with during downloading Any Ideas?
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Rob says:
March 17, 2015 at 4:13 pm
I get an error saying This copy of the Install OS X Yosemite application Cant be verified. It
may have been tampered with during downloading
Any Ideas?
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Rob F says:
March 17, 2015 at 4:15 pm
I cant seem to post this in the forum but I got this? This copy of the Install OS X Yosemite
application Cant be verified. It may have been tampered with during downloading
Any Ideas?
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Paul says:
March 17, 2015 at 4:18 pm
Yes, if you get the cant be verified error, you can fix it with this:
http://osxdaily.com/2015/01/19/fix-os-x-install-errors-cant-be-verified-erroroccurred-preparing-mac/
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Lana says:
March 25, 2015 at 7:44 am
Hi,
I have been copying installer files to disk for 1 hour now. And it has still not finished. Is it
normal ? Do you think there is any problem?
HELP
Thanks,
Lana
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Pireday says:
April 10, 2015 at 11:08 am
Great Its worked

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John says:
April 10, 2015 at 3:09 pm
The install onto the USB drive had only one glitch and that may have caused a problem. At
the reboot time the machine just sat there and I could see the USB drive wasnt powered,
as if it had not been seen by the mac as a bootable volume.
So I powered down and powered up the mac forcing reboot
That seemed to work fine, the external drive was powered and recognized immediately and
the install proceeded. Everything works great (though slow) from the external drive.
HOWEVER
When I shut down and disconnected the external drive to boot back into the original
system, it booted up into the installer, trying to install Yosemite on my laptop hard drive. I
made the mistake of halting that install and went back to the external, and rebooted into
Yosemite, then found the app on the old drive installYosemite.app and deleted it.
I think that was my big error.
When I tried to reboot the original disk it clearly wants to find something that is missing now
and it wont boot, and it wont go into any part of the install. I get a kernel level error, then
the multi-language There was a problem message, but no successful progress.
Anyone have any idea how to repair that?
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Tom says:
April 21, 2015 at 3:19 pm
These instructions are much easier to follow:

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srishabh says:
April 24, 2015 at 1:54 pm
I am trying to install a fresh copy of OS X Yosemite on my MacBook Pro, 13-inch, Mid-2012

and the instructions given above are quite what I need. The only thing I have to ask is, does
all my Data and Applications stay? Or do they get deleted since a fresh copy of OS X is
being installed?
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Lucky says:
April 29, 2015 at 12:19 am
I did this with my external hd that had stu on it and it looked like it was deleting my drive
so I pulled the plug and now my drive seems messed up was it gonna erase my drive or is
there away to reverse this action.
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Scott Foster says:

April 29, 2015 at 8:14 am
Hi,
The command does indeed format the drive and then place the installer files.
If you used your external, this would have formatted the drive. Not the end of the
world. You have an arduous task ahead to recover your files.
Good luck.
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Zee says:
April 29, 2015 at 8:11 pm
I have read all of the comments others have left who had the same problem and I have tried
ALL of them; none work. I still have this message:
HELP?
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Ademola says:
May 1, 2015 at 1:58 am
Thank you for such in insight, it work for me though i have to change somethings like my
Flash Drive name, my OS location
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AhitechAztek says:
May 1, 2015 at 1:52 pm
I got it!!!! the whole problem is that when you copy directly from this page you dont get the
only
I manually typed it in and made sure to make the
worked like a charm!!!!
thanks yall!
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AhitechAztek says:
May 1, 2015 at 1:53 pm
I am referring to
2 dashes.
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Liambrexton says:
May 26, 2015 at 3:58 pm
Wow I love this, at least I will now do my stu de way I want it to be,a big thank you to you
guyz
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DannyD says:
June 2, 2015 at 7:56 pm
A big, big, BIG Thank You!! I used an SD Card instead of a thumb drive, and your method
worked flawlessly!! My old HD had frozen, so I went with a new SSD, but Apples free
method wouldnt allow me to download Lion for upgrading to Yosemite. Its all good
now, thanks to you!!
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Angry Mike says:

June 12, 2015 at 11:22 am
Fixing up my wifeys Mac and ran into several issues because I used a Samsung 850 as
replacement for the old drive. What I then realized was that I could use the net installer,
open Disc Utilities and initialize that bad boy. From Lion I went ahead and used this tip and
it is nothing but smooth sailing from here. Thanks a bunch for this guide! You rock.
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wingle says:
June 15, 2015 at 8:25 am
Has anyone operating with Mavericks attempted to make a Yosemite installer USB drive
using the Yosemite installer download?
Apple HT201372 indicates the createinstallmedia command is to work only with the version
of the OS X Installer app it came with. Does this mean to create Yosemite media the system
must be running Yosemite?
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Wombat Commando says:

June 15, 2015 at 9:38 am
Wingle. Considering that users update to OS X Yosemite from OS X Mavericks, hmm I

suspect you did not even read the article here, describing how to make a USB installer
drive for OS X Yosemite, from OS X Mavericks or OS X Yosemite, as long as you have
the Yosemite installer downloaded. This article answers your questions and shows you
how to create the installer drive with a USB disk of your choice.
I would suggest reading the article and then following the steps precisely, if you can
not do that, then you should not try to make a USB installer and you should probably
not install OS X Yosemite either. Maybe wait for the OS X El Capitan installer and use
that in September.
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Harry Roberts says:

June 18, 2015 at 5:06 pm
OMG I am a double E who thinks he can provide this level of help to others. but. I
think I have done died and gone to heaven. THIS IS the way you do it up right. all of the
issues that pop up are outliers that can be addressed in chat and comments as they are
being done here. I followed it exactly and it worked flawlessly. Whoever the hell you are.
well done and you have my complete respect. Good gawd!!!!!!!! Kudos.
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Nahid valli says:

June 28, 2015 at 2:27 am
I get the error of

Mount point
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Averil says:
June 29, 2015 at 7:23 pm
did a copy and paste, entered password and got

command not found
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greatstory says:
June 29, 2015 at 7:56 pm
So basically you did something wrong, or entered something wrong. The command
works if its entered correctly, and if the installer is in place.
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Whales says:
July 2, 2015 at 9:10 am
Hello guys. Im a newbie to mac and ive got a real problem on my hands. I have a 2009
white macbook im trying to upgrade to Yosemite. However, I cannot boot into the macbook
because I mistakenly erased my startup disk. Now I just made a bootable usb disk from a
windows tool called TransMac but my macbook doesnt show this bootable disc when I try
to install from it. Any help please?
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Gery says:
July 8, 2015 at 4:06 am
Is it natural for a 16GB SanDisk to take days to format. I have done it the way you explain
says, but is taken forever? I cant move on yet to partition tab, as this has been going on for
about a day. I didnt expect that it took this long to format, I have Mac OS Extended
(Journaled) highlighted, and it is done about half so far. Any ideas? If this is natural then
cool, but was wondering
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Ron says:
July 17, 2015 at 1:05 am
Mine took 5 seconds. I would put in a dierent machine and give it a dierent format
like fat 32 then go back to the Mac to format properly.
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s2arto says:
July 11, 2015 at 6:19 pm
Most people who are not Terminal savvy (like me) will neglect to delete both the 1 in
untitled 1 AND the space preceding it, as was my problem. This will result in Terminal
reporting that untitled is not a valid mount point. There are several other comments to this
eect, and its pretty much an essential step.
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Ron says:
July 17, 2015 at 1:02 am
Very cool. Thanks for the article, it worked as stated. Mac noob here lol
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Janet says:
July 21, 2015 at 7:33 pm
I got as far as the terminal, cut and pasted the commands, and at first it asked for pw. I
didnt read the part where you indicated that I wouldnt see the pw being entered. I did the
same command again and this time it says:
Now what?
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Mr. Unhappy says:

August 2, 2015 at 4:30 pm
There is an introduced syntax error in the instructions provided here, specifically the
script that will not work when cut and praised into terminal.
These instructions are not valid for many people, even when followed exactly.
Use the instructions:
Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume
/Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\
Yosemite.app --nointeraction
It worked perfectly for me the first time.

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Happy Pappy says:

August 3, 2015 at 10:41 am
Actually, the command is identical. You pasting not following instructions is

probably your problem.
Same commands, identical.
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Janet Geren says:

July 21, 2015 at 8:16 pm
Yay! I did it. I started over, formatted and partitioned the memory stick, renamed it to
Untitled again and started over and this time it worked. Thank you soooo much!!!
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Harpreet Gill says:

July 23, 2015 at 10:39 am
Hi,
Thanks for sharing this great solution.
I wanted clean fresh installation of Yosemite 10.10 on my macbook pro (16 GB Ram, 512
SSD, i7). so, I erased old installation. Followed exact steps you mentioned (on other iMac)
to create bootable usb. It boot the system up start installing Yosemite, but in the middle, it
is failing with following message :
an error occurred while extracting files from the package essentials.pkg
It ask to try again but every time it fails with same error me message.
Please help me. Thanks in advance.
Regards
Harpreet Gill
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Kevin Lloyd says:

August 8, 2015 at 1:29 am
Tried and got this error message. Any suggestions?

dmg failed.
Done.
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Jason says:
August 12, 2015 at 9:05 am
What is the problem with Yosemite?? I get the (error code 112) too and the cannot be
verified every time
Testing is obviously not done properly.. I will forgo installing.
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Brian says:
August 13, 2015 at 11:57 pm
Somebody please send me the Yosemite setup app I cant download mine. It keeps giving
me an error message.
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khgyn says:
August 14, 2015 at 10:31 am
you download yosemite from the app store, its 8gb nobody can send it to you
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JRJRJR says:
August 18, 2015 at 9:34 pm
I followed these instructions exactly twice and both times when I option-boot, I just get
a black screen and have to restart. Is it because Im using only a 8GB drive? Everyone else
said 8GB worked fine.
I have Mountain Lion installer backed up on another 8GB drive, so Ill try that one instead,
for now.
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Kartik Agarwal says:

August 23, 2015 at 2:09 am
Guys, how long did it take for all the files to be installed on to the disk? Mine has been
going on for about 10 minutes now. Is that normal?
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Matt says:
August 23, 2015 at 4:16 am
How long did it end up taking? Mine has been going for 40 minutes so far, still going.
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Corrected says:
August 27, 2015 at 7:15 pm
The article instructions leave your USB drive as Untitled do not add a 1
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Incorrected says:
August 28, 2015 at 9:35 am
If you read the article on how to make a USB installer for OS X Yosemite, which you
apparently have a hard time doing, it explains exactly why the volume is called
Untitled 1 and not Untitled. But whatever, wouldnt want to bother you with literacy
comprehension! Particularly with a technical matter, nah, why read when you can just
assume and break something? LOL.
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WEC777 says:
September 4, 2015 at 12:49 am
I had the same problem until I realized that theres no space between
Resources/createinstallmedia, so if youre typing it in rather than copy/pasting, it makes a
dierence.
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Niall101 says:
September 9, 2015 at 9:27 am
Thanks a lot buddy! Very clear and helpful instructions. You just helped me save an
otherwise perfectly good laptop that was destine for the scrap heap
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Farmani says:
hi
when i was enter this command
nointeraction
in my terminal i saw this problem
You must specify both the volume and install application path
and i cant fix my problem.
what i do ???
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Mohebbi says:
October 12, 2015 at 11:33 am

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Peter says:
October 24, 2015 at 10:07 am
Your article has a mistake. Do not rename the newly-formatted USB drive to Untitled 1. The
terminal command will tell you its not a valid mount point. Renaming the drive to Untitled
fixes the problem and allows the process to proceed. Just sayin
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Pamu Re says:
October 24, 2015 at 11:13 am
No the article is correct, but you have to use the exact command as stated, if you
dont escape Untitled\ 1 it will tell you its not a valid mount point. Youre
experiencing a syntax error which is common if you are less familiar with the
command line.
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YoyoPhilippines says:
October 25, 2015 at 12:20 am
Hey guys! The command is also applicable to OSX EL Capitan, just follow all the steps
given then just use or copy this command line for it to work.
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ EL\ Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia
volume /Volumes/Untitled applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ EL\ Capitan.app
nointeraction
Thanks!!!
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charles ghareh says:

i have a simple problem

Prescott Perez-Fox says:

Prescott Perez-Fox says:

Oops, looks like someone else said the same thing.

OSX noob says:

Make sure your HD partition isnt called Untitled as mine was

LOL thanks for the tip and thats unlucky

Paul Johnson says:

Did you receive a reply Chris?

Awesome. This tip just worked for me, thanks!

Stean Perry says:

I experienced a problem when I followed the directions with an eight GB

charles ghareh says:

i have a simple problem

Not to be a dick, but

Not to be a dick, but lemme just be a dick

Nice advise. DiskMaker is the answer!!!

I was getting the same error until i used this code:

Wharf Xanadu says:

Can you help me?

Lars Justinen says:

It took about an hour for me.

Shilo Watts says:

sudo: /Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia:

sudo /DDMac/Applications/Installer\ OS\ X\

rong? WRONG says:

This is the command:

Mine is still showing:

Are you like me?

You can use DriveMaker X (downloading the corresponding version

i solved my by renaming the Untitled 1 from patition 1 to Untitled in Disk

I was getting the same error until i used this code:

This worked. THANK YOUUUU

I just copied your command and I get the same message:

sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia

Kurt Hanson says:

Another utilitarian tip.

Bill Luckie says:

Thank you guys for fast update on your site.

Ahmed Abunuwara says:

I got an (Error code 112)

Ahmed Abunuwara says:

Is Yosemite installer dose install HD Recovery Partition?

Tried this twice and both time this is the result.

applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app nointeraction

No not unless you overwrite Windows 8

I typed this into terminal

Having the same problem

Diskmaker X App worked like a charm.

Followed the instructions to a tee and it worked like a charm.

Its you thats unbelievable.