Install Disk Creator Yosemite

  1. If you don't want to use Diskmaker X, Apple has actually included a terminal command that can create an install disk for you. Assuming that you have the OS X Yosemite installer in your.
  2. May 03, 2021 How to get older macos installation files. Use the restore disk image to drive dialog box to browse for the dmg file with the installation files for mac os x yosemite in this case and click the ok button to create a bootable usb of the operating system. Launch the mac app store on your mac.

This will be downloaded as a disk image named InstallMacOSX.dmg. On a Mac that is compatible with El Capitan, open the disk image and run the installer within, named InstallMacOSX.pkg. It will install an app named Install OS X El Capitan into your Applications folder. Sep 11, 2020 Locate the file named Install OS X Yosemite, and then right-click the file and select Show Package Contents. Open the Contents folder, then open the Shared Support folder. Here you will find the disk image that contains the files you need to create a bootable installer. Double-click the InstallESD.dmg file. Doing so will mount the InstallESD. What’s needed for a clean install on a Mac. A backup of the disk before it’s erased. Two options are to use Duplicate (a free utility which can copy and paste an entire bootable volume), or Mac Backup Guru (a paid, fully featured backup utility with unique incremental backups capability) for that. Here is a detailed guide for the process.; A Mac operating system installer.

Which mac are you wanting to download Mac OS X Yosemite on, model and year.

Some macs that came preinstalled with an OS newer than Mac OS X Yosemite cannot

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do the conversion from InstallOSX.pkg to Install OS X Yosemite.app.


If the 'donor' mac is too new to convert the InstallOSX.pkg to Install OS X Yosemite.app

do you have a copy of the Snow Leopard DVD install disk.


If the mac running Big Sur is the right age to create the Yosemite installer app

click on the link below.

Go to Download macOS and click on OS X Yosemite 10.10

this downloads InstallMacOSX.dmg to your Downloads folder.

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The next section can only be done on a mac that is capable of running Yosemite.

This includes macs that have the potential to run Yosemite but have been upgraded to a newer OS.

A mac that came preinstalled with an OS later than Yosemite will refuse to do the next bit.


When downloaded open to InstallMacOSX.pkg, double-click on

that and an installation window will open, this does not install Yosemite

but converts the InstallMacOSX.pkg to the Install OS X Yosemite.app which

you will find in your Applications folder.


(If the installation window asks which disk you want to install to, you must pick

the disk that you are booted to at the time. Not any internal or external disk that

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you want to eventually install Yosemite on, that is for later.)

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Create a bootable USB installer disk using the Install OS X Yosemite.app

in the Applications folder and the createinstallmedia command in the Terminal app.

Mac Yosemite Install


Read the instructions here,


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