

Terminal displays the progress of the erasure. When you’re asked, type Y to confirm that you want to erase your bootable installer volume, then press Return.Note that for security, Terminal doesn’t display characters as you type your password. You’ll be prompted to type your administrator password and press Return again.Once the command has been entered, press Return.NOTE (*): If your Mac is using macOS Sierra or earlier, include the “–applicationpath” argument and installer path, as shown in the command for El Capitan.

For my example, I replaced it with Installer.īig Sur:* sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Big\ Sur.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia -volume /Volumes/MyVolume Catalina:* sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Catalina.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia -volume /Volumes/MyVolume Mojave:* sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Mojave.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia -volume /Volumes/MyVolume High Sierra:* sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia -volume /Volumes/MyVolume El Capitan: sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia -volume /Volumes/MyVolume -applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app In each command, replace the name MyVolume with the name of your volume. These commands are dependent on the installer being in your Applications folder.

Purchase OS X Mountain Lion installer on the Apple Store This version of DiskMaker X is not able to build a Mavericks installer from Mac OS X 10.6.8.
