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BACKGROUND: I periodically reformat and partition the hard drive on my iMac. Followed by reinstalling OS X and software. QUESTION: Where can I get the.dmg file for Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10 so I can reinstall Yosemite from an external hard drive where 10.10 will be located. I do have the.dmg for 10.10.1 but this is an update. Jan 06, 2016 Not even sure if it's even possible with Yosemite to still make DVD media, since it need the boot files/installer files which i'm sure are not part of the dmg image. I could be wrong of course. I remember when i did it manually on mac, u had to 'show all files' when drag over some hidden system folders outside the dmg image itself, in addition. Feb 01, 2017  This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Nov 05, 2014  Mac OS X Yosemite Clean Install. Hiding files, mounting Base Systems DMG, etc. This is just a copy and paste command into terminal. How to install OS X Yosemite on your Mac.

As you know, Apple releases a new OS X operating system every year, and the new OS X can only be downloaded via the Mac App Store (currently OS X Yosemite). The older versions of OS X are still supported by Apple, but it should be more difficult to download. My following tip can help you easily download and create USB installer for OS X – Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion, and Lion.

Before doing, you need to prepare 2 things:

  • An USB – at least 8Gb or higher.
  • A MacBook to run Disk Utility in OS X.

How to create USB installer for Mac OS X

Step 1: Download installer of OS X Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion, and Lion

We are still able to download Yosemite from Apple store:

Go to Mac Apple Store > use your Apple ID and login > Find and download OS X Yosemite. After downloading, OS X Yosemite Installerwill appear in /Applications. To get the InstallESD.DMG, go to Application > right mouse on OS X Yosemite > select “Show Package Contents“.

OS X – Mavericks, Mountain Lion, and Lion can be downloaded through Torrent method:

Firstly, Get μTorrent or Folx Pro (Folx Pro 3 full version download), then use following torrent file to download the OS X version you desire.

  • Download OS X Lion 10.7.5 (4,3 GB) – Torrent.
  • Download OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 (4,1 GB)- Torrent.
  • Download OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 (4,9 GB)- Torrent.
  • Download OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 (5,3 GB)- Torrent.

Step 2: Format and make USB bootable

1. Plug USB into Macbook and run Disk Utility > Select the USB drive in the left side > Click on Erase > Choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format > Apply.
2. Go to Partition tab > Select 1 Partition at Partition Layout.
3. Change the name to Untitled 1 from Untitled > Click on Option.

5. Choose GUID Partition Table and click OK.

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6. Click on Apply to format USB > End the Disk Utility when the process is completed.

Step 3: Make USB OS X installer

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Run OS X installer.DMG download in step 1 to mount it’s virtual hard drive into system > Launch Disk Utility, select the right USB in the left side > Click pn Restore > Drag and drop OS X installer.DMG into Source > Drag and drop USB into Destination > Click on Restore button.

After the restore process is completed, we have obtained the USB stick containing the installer of OS X Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, or Yosemite at your choice.

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Notice: Once the USB stick should only contain one OS X installer version. You should have several USB stick if you want to create many installers.

Creating a bootable USB drive of OS X Yosemite 10.10 if you want to save it on a external drive for future usage or just want to install it on multiple Mac computers. To make OS X Yosemite bootable USB installer drive, there are few requirements. Lets see what are those.

Note: This guide to make installer USB drive is for OS X Yosemite Developer Preview

See also: Dual Boot OS X Yosemite and Mavericks

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Make OS X Yosemite Bootable USB

Requirements

Mac os dmg to usb. Jan 24, 2018  However, in this topic, we share two methods to download and get MacOS Sierra.DMG, then convert Sierra.DMG to Sierra.ISO (available solutions in both Mac OS X and Windows). First way, users can obviously download Sierra App from Apple store.

  • You must have an external USB drive or storage media with capacity of at-least 8GB (Save data from it because we are going to format it).
  • OS X Yosemite installer downloaded (You can join OS X Beta program)

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Prepare USB drive for OS X Yosemite

Open Disk Utility from “Applications” > “Utilities” or press “cmd+space” keys form keyboard to find “Disk Utility”.

Plug the external USB drive into Mac (make sure you save your stuff from it). Once you attached the USB drive, it will shown on the left panel of Disk Utility.

Select the drive and then do the following steps to create a single partition that is required to make USB installer drive for OS X Yosemite 10.10.

Click on “Partition Layout” drop-down menu and select “1 Partition” option from it.
Then enter the Partition information Name: ”osxyosemite”, Format: “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)”.
Click the “Options” button to select the partition scheme, so select “GUID Partition Table” option and click OK button.

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To complete the creating partition process hit the “Apply” button and then “Partition” button. This will take some time to format and making USB drive as a 1 partition. Once done, you will notice a new drive name will be displayed on the left side, the name that you given in the partition information. Now close the Disk Utility tool.

Show hidden files

Showing hidden files is required, because there are few hidden files in the OS X Yosemite installer package that you need to unhide first to write them on bootable USB drive.

Open Mac “Terminal” command line: press cmd+space keys and type Terminal in the spotlight, click the Terminal from search results or just open the Terminal from Applications > Utilities > Terminal.

Type the following two commands one by one:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

Killall Finder

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First command is going to show hidden files and the second one is to restart the Finder so we can see the instant effect of first command. Close the Terminal.

Open Applications, here you will see your downloaded OS X Yosemite file “Install OS X 10.10”. Cmd+click on it to view the menu, select “Show Package Contents”.

Open “Contents” > “SharedSupport” folder and here you will see “InstallESD.dmg” file, double click to open the file and OS X may starts verifying this file so let the verification process finished.

After that you will see a folder with the following content in it, “BaseSystem.dmg” is the file that we need and it was hidden, so now you know that why we show the hidden files in above steps.

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Open the Disk Utility again from “Applications” > “Utilities” > “Disk Utility” or by using Spotlight search.

Load the “BaseSystem.dmg” file into the Disk Utility, right-click on the file and choose “Open With” > “Disk Utility” option. After doing that open the Disk Utility and you will see the file “BaseSystem.dmg” is loaded in the Disk Utility on the left side.

Restore Disk Image

Now we are going to restore “BaseSystem.dmg” disk image on the USB drive.
Select your USB partition that we created in previous first steps, then click the Restore tab.
Under Restore tab there are two fields, Source and Destination.
Click and drag the “BaseSystem.dmg” to Source field and “osxyosemite” usb drive to Destination filed, see screenshot below to get more idea. When done hit the Restore button and you need to confirm “Are you sure you want to replace the content on USB drive with the content of disk image” so click the Erase button to confirm, after that you may need to enter the administrator password. Restoring disk image is time taking process so be patient.

Once the restoring disk image process is finished you will see a folder like this. Here, open the “System” > “Installation” folders and move the Packages file to trash.

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Copy the “Packages” folder from the folder where the “BaseSystem.dmg” exist. and paste it into the Installation folder that you just opened in previous step.

Hide the system files again using this command
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles NO

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How to Boot from USB Drive

You must know the system requirements of OS X Yosemite before installing it, If your system to capable to run this OS X version 10.10 then Shutdown your Mac, plug the OS X Yosemite Bootable USB into Mac. Press the power button again to turn it On and then hold the Alt or Option key from keyboard, when you see this screen release the button. Double click on the USB drive to boot from it.

Congratulations! you successfully perform all steps to make bootable USB drive to install OS X Yosemite on more that one Mac computers without worried of downloading it on each computer separately, you will saved lot of bandwidth and time as well. Thanks for reading if you have any problem we are here to help you just write your problem below in comments box.

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