How to make a bootable Mavericks install drive
[Editor's note: This article is part of our series of articles on installing and upgrading to Mavericks.]
[Note: We’ve updated this article with a third—and faster—method (using createinstallmedia in Terminal) now that we’ve had a chance to test it on the final release of Mavericks.]
Like Mountain Lion (OS X 10.
and Lion (OS X 10.7), Mavericks (OS X 10.9) doesn’t ship on a disc—it’s available only as an installer app downloadable from the Mac App Store, and that installer doesn’t require a bootable installation disc. But there are a good number of reasons you might want a bootable Mavericks installer on an external hard drive or a thumb drive (USB stick).
For example, if you want to install Mavericks on multiple Macs, a bootable install drive can be more convenient than downloading or copying the entire installer to each computer. Also, if your Mac is experiencing problems, a bootable install drive makes a handy emergency disk. (The OS X Recovery feature, known as Lion Recovery prior to Mountain Lion’s release, is a big help here, but not all Macs get it—and if your Mac’s drive is itself having trouble, recovery mode may not even be available. Also, if you need to reinstall Mavericks, recovery mode requires you to download the entire 5.3GB installer again.) Finally, if you need to install Mavericks over Leopard—assuming you have the license to do so—a bootable install drive makes it easier to do so.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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