Remove the existing Packages alias link from the newly restored image rm /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/System/Installation/PackagesĬopy the full OSX Mavericks Packages over to the new image….takes a while cp -R /Volumes/OS\ X\ Install\ ESD/Packages/ /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/System/Installation/PackagesĪnd there it is! – to eject the new bootable USB OSX Mavericks 10.9 disk ‘cd’ to home and eject cd ~/ hdiutil eject /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/ Diskpart is a command-line utility in Windows 10, which enables you to operate disk partition by using Diskpart command prompt, including create, merge, extend, shrink, format, delete, wipe disk partition, and other features. This will change ‘ BootDisk‘ to ‘ OS X Base System‘ After open cmd, you need to type diskpart for disk partitioning. This puts you back in the Finder in front of the newly mounted InstallESD.dmg, go back to Terminal and clone the BaseSystem.dmg to the remote USB drive sudo asr restore -source /Volumes/OS\ X\ Install\ ESD/BaseSystem.dmg -target /Volumes/BootDisk/ -erase -noverify
Credit Apple Working for Mac OS X 10.9 to 10. and had no partitions, just as OSX would have be believe. Command Line EFI Mounter This is a simple app that helps you to mount any EFI partition Inside Mac OS X. Swap to the newly mounted image cd /Volumes/InstallESD.dmg Satisfied the data was still there, I went back to my Mac and started poking around.
Mount the InstallESD.dmg buried deep in the app hdiutil attach /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg -noverify Just for the crazy ones……after Mavericks is downloaded….and again this assumes you external disk is named BootDisk For Apple Mac users, there are two ways to format a USB flash drive to FAT32, namely Disk Utility and Terminal command line. So, if users anticipate using the flash drive with more than one operating system, they will definitely benefit from the FAT32 file system.
If you want all to return back to normal and hide the system files run a couple more commands in the Terminal defaults write AppleShowAllFiles FALSE killall Finder How to create the OSX 10.9 Mavericks Bootable Drive just via Terminal Its a universal format that is compatible with Mac OS X/macOS, Windows, Linux, and DOS systems.