Created a bootable USB with El Capitan installer
- HOW TO CLEAN INSTALL OS X EL CAPITAN WITH A BOOTABLE USBIn this video I will teach you how to make a bootable USB drive an SD card, or any other +8 GB stora.
- Aug 12, 2021 El Capitan:. If your Mac is using macOS Sierra or earlier, include the -applicationpath argument and installer path, similar to the way this is done in the command for El Capitan. After typing the command: Install El Capitan From Usb Terminal. Press Return to enter the command. When prompted, type your administrator password and press Return.
- Create Bootable El Capitan USB Install Drive with DiskMaker X for Mac. Because the application sets up more than 6GB of installer data via a USB connection (most thumb drives use USB 2 which has a maximum data rate of 50MB/s), this process will take a while. In our test, Step 8 took 32 minutes.
booted from it, erased my MBP (mid 2009), clean install from USB installer
Preparation - get OS X El Capitan installer and USB flash drive. Download El Capitan installer (Install OS X El Capitan.app in Applications folder) available in Mac App Store. Prepare a flash drive with OS X Disk Utility. Format it with GUID Partition Table and name it as Untitled. The minimal capacity of flash drive must be 8 GB.
decided to use migration assistant, most apps not working plus all the clutter from pre clean install
decided to do another clean install but MBP won't boot from USB and uses the recovery version instead.
tried to get Maverick back and basically ended up with a non-working MBP that went into a boot loop
did a reinstall from MAS, ended up DLing the entire Installer again, went to bed and in the morning and 'working'
MBP again, plus all the clutter and non working apps.
Install El Capitan From Usb Drive
Made a new bootable USB key using terminal and yes it finished and yes it said bootable at the end as well as in Disk Utilities.
However when trying to boot from USB, start+Option, or start+cmd+r still no sign of the USB stick, which i guess would leave me
with a non clean install again.
Any help, suggestions.....?
Cheers
Can't Install El Capitan From Usb
Ralf
MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2009), OS X El Capitan (10.11)
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Posted on Oct 4, 2015 7:57 AM