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uxp on Oct 23, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: OS X Mavericks App Store link

I think you might be correct. Apple used to distribute the Lion Recovery app, which basically copied the InstallESD.dmg to a USB stick, but it no longer works with Mountain Lion. Running this command, however, uses a hidden executable inside the installer application to write itself to a USB stick.

  sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/USBSTICK --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app --nointeraction

NOTE: This uses sudo because it needs permission to write to the device. It also has the potential of destroying external drives, internal drives and boot drives. Please change the value for the 'volume' flag to point to the mounted path of the USB stick or SD card you wish to use as the bootable install disk. It will overwrite all the data on that disk. I am not responsible for any data loss using this command. Please double check all paths, all commands and all flags before running this.

derefr on Oct 23, 2013 [–]

What happens when you do that without the --nointeraction flag? Presumably, it explains what it's going to do, and prompts for elevation?

jychang on Oct 23, 2013 | [–]

Was the previous comment edited? There's no --nointeraction flag there.

nwh on Oct 23, 2013 | | [–]

There is, you need to scroll horizontally- there's no text wrapping on <pre> lines.

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