
(I use 12 GB for the installer, 42.1 GB for a “Rescue Drive” with a fully bootable OS, installer, Drive Genius, etc. You could also use a secondary internal partition that has at least 12GB of available disk space for the installation files. Mount your USB flash drive or other volume.The installer will be in your Applications folder. Quit the installer if it opens automatically after downloading. Download the macOS installer from the Mac App Store.Go to Apple’s CreateInstallMedia support page for up to date instructions.Use the ‘createinstallmedia’ command in Terminal
#MAKE BOOTABLE MAC USB FROM ESD INSTALL#
I tried using Apple’s CreateInstallMedia instructions, and finally was able to create a working Install device and Utility drive per my additional instructions below.
#MAKE BOOTABLE MAC USB FROM ESD MAC OS#
After letting Diskmaker X do it’s thing, the drives (when I try using the whole drive as the installer) and partitions (how I normally do it) are not seen by Mac OS as bootable in the “Startup Disk” System Preference or when holding down the Option key on boot/restart.
