Hi there,I have been in IT for 10+ years, worked as IT Support, System Admin, IT Admin etc. Learning Enterprise Architecture - in Infrastructure.I can download any newer version of OSX for free in the app store so I'm getting content I can get for free anyway, just paying someone else to save me 2-3 hours of my time because Apple make everything so f*cking complicated! You don't need to 'hack around Apple's limitations' to make a USB disk, if'd upgraded to a slightly higher version of OSX I could have made this myself. I wasted a good couple of hours on this and looked at many sites They've been hacked to workaround Apple's limitations, and you do NOT know what else they could, may and very well have done.Yes, I did Google it, which is why I know the command you posted doesn't work in Snow Leopard, which is why I couldn't make the disk on the version of OSX the Mac that I wanted to upgrade was running Opens a new window There are many hacked builds out there (also - technically violating Apple's terms of use) for building a 'Hackintosh,' that should never - EVER - be trusted. No-one with any sense of and concern for security would trust some Joe Q 'Just trust me' illegal sale of OS X. Had to mess about to get it to enable then run as root but still no luck.Īny simple way of getting an ISO image like there is with Microsoft Volume Licensing? I've followed the instructions to the letter but it doesn't seem to like the syntax for some reason. There is a second method on that page but that won't work wither.

I've tried using Disk Maker X, but the older versions don't build El Capitan disks and the newer ones won't run on snow lepord Opens a new window

Apparently this is because older versions of OSX don't support this command.

I've tried using terminal to do it as per Opens a new window, but I get error (9999, 0) formatting the disk. We have a 2011 iMac with OSX 10.6.8 on it, and I'm wanting to do a clean install of El Capitain (the newest version of OSX that our backup software will support.) However, I'm having a nightmare creating a bootable USB.įirst issue was getting my hands on a download through the app store, it only really wanted me to download Seria.

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