[MacTUG] How to Create an OS X Mavericks USB Installation Drive

[Mark Byerley]

Does anyone have the command line cached somewhere from Step 5?
Macrumors.com appears to be down for maintenance and I don't have that
much patience (or attention span) to wait. :)
Mark


On 2013-10-23 8:50 AM, "Marlon A. Griffith"
<m3griffi at engmail.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

>"""
>Sadly, the old method for Lion and Mountain Lion doesn't work anymore,
>but thanks to MacRumors forum user tywebb13, we've got another simple
>method for Mavericks. Here's what you need to do:
>
>     Download OS X Mavericks from the Mac App Store, if you haven't
>already. If it tries to start the installation, just close it.I
>     nsert your USB drive (you'll need one that's 8GB or larger) and
>open Disk Utility.
>     Select your drive in the sidebar and go to the Erase tab. Format
>the drive as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" and name the drive "Untitled."
>     Click the Erase button and wait for Disk Utility to finish.
>     Close Disk Utility and open up a Terminal window. Copy and paste
>the command from this forum post into the Terminal.
>     Press Enter. The process should take about 20 minutes, so don't
>cancel it or eject your USB drive while it's doing its thing.
>     When it's done, you should get a message stating the process is
>finished. Now, you can restart your computer, hold the Option key to
>access the boot menu, and select your new USB drive to install a clean
>copy of OS X Mavericks.
>
>Check out the video above to see the process in action, and good luck!
>
>http://lifehacker.com/how-to-create-an-os-x-mavericks-usb-installation-dri
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>"""
>
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