Download Hackintosh Yosemite Intel + AMD Support. Hackintosh Yosemite Installer can be used to install OS X Yosemite On PC without the need of a Mac. HP Processors with Insyde Bios. Use the DMG for Flash drive installation and use ISO for DVD Installation or Installing on a Virtual Machines. Many Improvements from 10.10.
Generally, another Mac is the best way to 'build' a bootable USB flash drive. I've heard that it can be done using a PC, but doing it that way is a difficult process. Another option: - Go on ebay and buy a bootable USB flashdrive with the OS of your choice pre-installed and ready to go. Cost will be about $20. How to clean install OS X Yosemite via bootable USB flash drive. Download OS X 10.10 Yosemite Final from the Mac App Store and save it to the Applications folder – its default location. Plug the bootable installer into a Mac that is connected to the internet and compatible with the version of macOS you're installing. Turn on your Mac and continue to hold the power button until you see the startup options window, which shows your bootable volumes. Select the volume containing the bootable installer, then click Continue. How to make your own bootable OS X 10.10 Yosemite USB install drive. This app is free to download, but. The finished Yosemite boot drive, which also includes OS X's handy startup utilities.
Update: Go to Install macOS Sierra Using Bootable USB Flash Drive if you want to install macOS 10.12 Sierra instead.
Update 2: The instructions below will work to manually create a Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan USB installation drive. I needed to upgrade my sister’s 2008 Macbook Pro and found that the existing Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard did not support the “createinstallmedia” tool; I got a “Failed to start erase of disk due to error (-9999, 0)” error. I followed the instructions below to successfully create a bootable installer for Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan, which is the last version to support the 2008 Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro.
In this post, I will go over instructions on how to create a bootable USB flash drive containing the Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite installer. These instructions will also work for Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks (excluding a Yosemite-specific step) and differ significantly from the instructions for creating a Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard installer. You will need an 8GB USB flash drive for Mac OS X Yosemite or Mavericks.
I tried several methods which failed to create a bootable USB flash drive before finding one that succeeded. The instructions I found that worked, using Disk Utility, were located at How to Make a Bootable OS X Mavericks USB Install Drive and How to Create a Bootable Install USB Drive of Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite.
Download the Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite
First, download the latest Mac OS X version, which is 10.10 Yosemite. It is the version currently available for download from the “App Store”. (If you want an earlier version like Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks, you’ll need to get it from elsewhere.)
Launch “App Store” and search for “OS X Yosemite”. Download it. (It is 5.16GB in size.)
Note: If you run the Yosemite installer to upgrade your Mac, the downloaded installer file will be deleted automatically after the upgrade is completed. To keep that file, you will want to move it out of the Applications folder so it won’t be deleted after an upgrade. Launch the “Terminal” app and run this command to move the downloaded installer app to your user’s “Downloads” folder:
Create Bootable USB Flash Drive Installer
By default, the Finder will hide system files which we will need to see. Run these commands in the “Terminal” app to expose the hidden files:
Prepare the USB flash drive:
Restore the Yosemite installation image to the USB flash drive:
Re-configure the Finder to hide system files. Run these commands in the “Terminal” app:
Boot With USB Flash Drive
To boot a Mac with the USB flash drive:
Hopefully, this post will help you to create your own bootable USB flash drive installer for Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite or Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks.
Click on this link.
Go to Section 4 and click on Download OS X Yosemite.
This downloads InstallMacOSX.dmg to your Downloads folder.
The next section can only be done on a mac that is capable of running Yosemite,
a mac that came preinstalled with an OS later than Yosemite will refuse to do the next bit.
When downloaded open to InstallMacOSX.pkg, double-click on
that and an installation window will open, this does not install Yosemite
but converts the InstallMacOSX.pkg to the Install OS X Yosemite.app which
you will find in your Applications folder.
(If the installation window asks which disk you want to install to, you must pick
the disk that you are booted to at the time. Not any internal or external disk that
you want to eventually install Yosemite on, that is for later.)
To start the installation of Yosemite double click on the Install OS X Yosemite.app.
The copy of the install app self deletes after installing Yosemite, so make sure you keep a copy of the InstallMacOSX.dmg if you need it in future, or you could just make a copy of the Install OS X Yosemite.app
prior to installing and moving it to an external drive for safe keeping. It is also possible to create a bootable USB installer disk using the Install OS X Yosemite.app in the Applications folder and the createinstallmedia command in the Terminal app.
Read the instructions here,
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