The installation process is simple and fast, but today we will teach you a little shortcut to save some time.We will learn to create an OSX El Capitan installation pen.
Apple's decision not to distribute its operating systems on physical media is not new. Everything is on the Internet and accessible in a simple way.
If this idea works well for installations on a single machine, can be tricky in a situation where we have to do so on multiple Macs. We want at all costs avoid being unloading 6 GB on each machine that needs the update.
But there is a simple solution, created with the support of Apple, and that allows us to create a OSX installation pen. Let's try to do it for OSX El Capitan.
Necessary requirements
- A Mac with a recent version of OSX. Supported versions range up to OSX 10.7. It is still needed an account with Administrator permissions on that Mac.
- A USB flash drive with at least 8GB of space or an external drive with a partition that size.
- Image of El Capitan OSX installation. If you already have installed, they can return to the App Store and make it again download .
- The software DiskMaker X. The version to use is to 5, the only officially supported for OSX 10:11. Can be downloaded directly here
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If you have already installed OSX El Capitan on the machine which will create the USB flash point not seek the installer folder in Applications . It is deleted as soon as the installation is completed.
The DiskMaker X, formerly Lion Diskmaker, is the most application to be used to create this USB stick installation. It is a very intuitive application and only requires the user to have the folder Applicationsinstalled OSX and USB stick on.
Create a USB pen of OSX El Capitan installation
The first step to be followed, and assuming that the treaties have requirements, is the launch of DiskMaker X. No need to install, since er will use a point, just to create this OSX El Capitan installation pen. Carry so in the DiskMaker X icon and open the application.
When launching the X DiskMaker a first application window will be displayed where they will be questioned about which version of OSX who want to use. Of course, this step should choose the El Capitan (10:11).
Then the DiskMaker will seek the installation image of El Capitan, which unloaded before. This will be the folder applications, but may be used other having another paste. They only need to indicate that they want to use the copy found in the path indicated.
The next step is the USB pen of choice where the OSX installer will be placed. Once the USB memory is already connected to the Mac need only indicate that they want to use a 8GB drive. If the option is to use an external drive, then you should select this option and indicate the disk.
It is important to bear in mind that in the case of USB pen its contents will be deleted permanently. For discs, only the selected partition will be deleted.
The next step is the simplest of all. It is only necessary to wait for the DiskMaker X finishes copying the files to the USB stick and the ready for use in other Macs.
If for some reason see the DiskMaker X is stopped or take more than is normal, it can use the key sequenceCmd + q to unlock the process.
At the end and after the end DiskMaker X can use the USB stick. To test immediately if the process went smoothly, may open the pen in the Finder and click on the application Install OS X El Capitan.
The window that opens is the OSX El Capitan installation process. This is the same process that must use the Macs where you will want to install the new OSX.
You are so ready your OSX El Capitan installation pen. The target machine have two options for using a making simple update through an older version or a clean installation, eliminating all machine data.
In the first case only need to put pen and run the application Install OS X El Capitan, the second need to put the pen, restart the Mac and press the Alt key (Option) during startup. Choose the disk that will be the USB pen, and do the installation.
It is thus explained the process that can be use to avoid discharging the 6,08GB OSX El Capitan for each Mac where you want to install.
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