Dear owners of Apple devices, this article is written especially for you. If the operating system has stopped loading on your i-Mac or Mac-book, now you will find out how quickly and quickly Mac OS is installed from a USB flash drive. "Why from a flash drive?" - you ask. And everything is very simple.
Judge for yourself, it would be fair to say that the era of di-vi-di and, especially, CDs is living out its last days. Progress does not stand still. And since the time of these disks has passed, it's time to learn how Mac OS is installed from a USB flash drive. This process has a number of obvious advantages. First, it happens much faster. Secondly, you no longer need to rummage through your cabinets and drawers, and also puzzle over where the installation disk has gone.
Everything is much simpler. Create an installation flash drive for yourself. Put it in a safe place so that you always know where it is if necessary. Now I will describe in detail how Mac OS X is installed from a USB flash drive.
So, for this we need to fulfill several conditions. First, you need an Apple computer or laptop (i-Mac or Macbook). Without them, you definitely won't be able to do anything. If you have any of these, then you will also have to get a removable flash drive (flash drive). Its size should not be less than eight gigabytes. Well, in order for the installation of Mac OS from a USB flash drive to be successful, you will need to purchase the appropriate distribution kit for this system. If you have prepared all this, then you can proceed.
The first thing we do is convert our flash drive to bootable. To do this, go to your distribution and find another file called "InstallESD.dmg". To do this, right-click on the Install Mac OS X Lion.app icon. Open the Contents directory, then SharedSupport, there you will see the file you are looking for. After that, you need to mount this disk image. To do this, just double-click on this file, you will find the created image on your desktop.
In order for the installation of Mac OS from a USB flash drive to be implemented in this way, you need to do the correct formatting. Insert a removable device into the port, and then open the disk utility located in the appropriate folder. On the left, select your flash drive and click "Empty". Just do it carefully. If you choose the wrong device, you risk losing all your information. The file system must be Mac OS Extended. If there is a desireassign a name to this volume. Press "Clear" again.
When the procedure is completed, we will have a ready-made flash drive to which you need to restore the image you created before. In the same utility on the left, select your device again, only this time click "Recovery". Drag and drop the installation image into the Source field, and the distribution kit into another field called Destination. Check your actions and click "Restore".
That's basically it. Now you can boot your device by holding the options button. This will take you to the menu to select the desired boot disk. Is it possible to install Mac OS on a flash drive? Oh sure. But this is already a topic for a separate article.
