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This is an introductory tutorial on using InstaDMG, a OSX package and image maker, to create clean never booted disk images of OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion.
Previous tutorials on InstaDMG and OSX 10.7 has three parts, base image, base image + user, base image + user and system modifications.
For those not familiar InstaDMG is a powerful command line tool application used to produce clean never booted OS X images, these images can include OSX incremental upgrades as well as 3rd party software and scripts.
This guide is for getting a clean never booted up to OSX 10.8.4 Mountain Lion Image. You will need the OSX 10.8 installer which is named the InstallESD.dmg
Dec 6 09:15:54 MacBook-Pro InstallAssistant493: Hardware: MacBookPro12,1 @ 3.10 GHz (x 4), 16384 MB RAM. Jun 17, 2012 have downloaded my copy of Mountain Lion DP4 (yes i am part of the apple seed program). Trying to burn the InstallESD.dmg to a USB stick to do a clean install. I'm using the same instructions i used for Lion - Disk Utility create 1 partition with GUID then restore the DMG to the USB stick.
Oct 23, 2013 This guide deals with 3 ways of making a boot disk from OSX 10.9 Mavericks the first one is the fastest and is done via the Terminal from a new command already in OSX Mavericks called createinstallmedia, the other 2 are older ways when Mavericks was in development and are done with a mixture of finder using Disk Utility and command line.
Get InstaDMG
Navigate to your home and create a directory name ‘instadmg’ and change directory to it.
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Updating InstaDMG
As new OSX updates are made available the InstaDMG code is changed to include the new upgrades, to update InstaDMG, move into the directory it is installed in and run the svn update command:
Preparing the Base OS X 10.8 Image
After the InstaDMG is downloaded the next step is to make a base installation image of OS X 10.8 Extract the InstallESD.dmg from the Lion.app after it is downloaded from the App Store and before it is installed, as when it is installed the app is then deleted – this guide shows how to reveal the InstallESD.dmg and also a guide to burn a generic copy of 10.8 to disk.
Move the InstallESD.dmg file from Mountain Lion in the path below in your InstaDMG location and move onto the next section:
Using the Catalog File
The catalog file is the all important file that contains the installer build numbers plus all the incremental OSX updates, the latest version of InstaDMG now has an OSX Mountain Lion 10.8 catalog file as at version revision 480.
– The OSX 10.8 Build number for the initial build is at the top, 12A269, 12B19, 12C54, 12D78, 12E55
– Below are the OSX incremental updates in the format of name, download link and SHA1 encryption key – these are tab separated on one line per item (grab shows them soft wrapped).
– If you don’t want to include a certain update in the build just add a comment (#) to the beginning of the line.
If you only have an older install build you can add the latest OSX 10.8.4 combo, by adding in the update in the OS Updates section just paste in the line below.
Make The OSX Image
Move into the InstaDMG location and to build the image you run the all important instaUp2Date command with sudo.
The .catalog extension does not need to be added in running the command. The command will take a while to run depending on your RAM and processor power. The OS X incremental updates are downloaded and stored on your local drive, future builds will only pull down new updates.
The disk image is spat out in the directory – “~/InstaDMG/OutputFiles” named “10.8 Vanilla.dmg” which is the all-encompassing new master image. The final output at the tail of the command in the Terminal will be like this:
And there you have it one OSX 10.8 image ready for deployment, which can be used in any deployment method including ASR, DeployStudio or as a NetBoot image.
You may get errors when running the command above such as:
But you do have the installer disc filed in the right place! – just reboot and try again.
Restoring via ASR
You could push this image to another drive using ASR – this will erase your target Volume:
Part 2 of this InstaDMG tutorial takes you through setting up a local user account on the images and adding files that allow you to bypass registration process.
This guide deals with 3 ways of making a boot disk from OSX 10.9 Mavericks the first one is the fastest and is done via the Terminal from a new command already in OSX Mavericks called createinstallmedia , the other 2 are older ways when Mavericks was in development and are done with a mixture of finder using Disk Utility and command line.
Quickest Way
Download Mac OSX 10.9Mavericks but don’t install.
Attach your USB stick/drive.
Launch the Terminal from /Applications/Utilities and enter the command below and then your password when prompted, be sure to change the ‘Untitled‘ name in the below command to your external disk name:
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Let it do its thing and there you have it, one bootable Mac OSX 9 drive.
This really is a super simple way – however if using the Terminal fills you with fear and dread, there are some GUI apps that can get the job done namely DiskMakerX and a new imaging tool that can clone a new disk very quickly – AutoDMG.
Alternative Ways of building a Bootable Mavericks OSX Disk.
To make a boot disk of OSX 10.9 Mavericks, first of all get the app or download via the App store, if downloaded it will file in the folder Applications.
Control / Left click Options, Show in Finder to get to the app, don’t install at this stage.
Located in the Applications Folder
Finding the InstallESD.dmg
To find the actual InstallESD.dmg file, control/left click the ‘Install OS X Mavericks’ app and choose show contents – then navigate to Shared Support folder.
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Control/Right click to show contents
Navigate to Shared Support folder to see the InstallESD.dmg file
Mount InstallESD.dmg
Double click to mount the image.
Make Invisible Files Visible
We need to see the BaseSystem.dmg inside the InstallESD.dmg
Crank open Terminal and run:
This will show all invisible files have a look inside the mounted InstallESD.dmg
Mount an External Disk
Attach a USB/external drive – this guide uses the external drive name calledBootDisk, you need to make sure the format is correct, it needs to be Mac OSX Extended Journaled – it its not you can format that in Disk Utility.
Launch Disk Utility
Launch Disk Utility as found in Applications/Utilities and go to the Restore tab.
Drag BaseSystem.dmg to the Source field and your external disk to the Destination and click Restore.
This will mount your new OSX 10.9 external disk and name it OSX Base System – but we need to add the packages.
Fix the Packages
Couple of things to fix in the newly created boot disk, remove the Packagealias at System/Installation/ folder
Now from the previously mounted InstallESD.dmg copy over the Packages folder to the same location where we just removed the alias above.
Will take a while as it holds all the install packages.
Job done now you can boot from the OSX 10.9 disk.
Make the Visible back to Invisible
If you want all to return back to normal and hide the system files run a couple more commands in the Terminal
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Just for the crazy ones……after Mavericks is downloaded….and again this assumes you external disk is named BootDisk
Mount the InstallESD.dmg buried deep in the app
Dec 10, 2018 Click 'Load DMG' to import your DMG file into the program. Insert a blank DVD and click Burn against the DVD option to write the DMG to the disk. In three simple steps, your bootable DVD is ready. You won't find that many tools that are so easy to operate. How to burn dmg file to bootable dvd. With PowerISO, you can manipulate dmg files on Windows PC. PowerISO can burn dmg file directly to a CD / DVD disc. You needn't convert dmg to iso file before burning. To burn dmg file on Windows PC, please follow the steps, Run PowerISO, and insert a blank or rewritable optical disc in the drive. Oct 08, 2013 This video explains how you can extract, and burn InstallESD.DMG, the Mac OS X installer file for OX 10.7 Lion, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, to a bootable DVD in Windows 7, 8 or Windows 10.
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Swap to the newly mounted image
This puts you back in the Finder in front of the newly mounted InstallESD.dmg, go back to Terminal and clone the BaseSystem.dmg to the remote USB drive
This will change ‘BootDisk‘ to ‘OS X Base System‘
Remove the existing Packages alias link from the newly restored image
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Copy the full OSX Mavericks Packages over to the new image….takes a while
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And there it is! – to eject the new bootable USB OSX Mavericks 10.9 disk ‘cd’ to home and eject
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Now you can boot up from your newly bootable disk and either Install OSX10.9 on another device or use the Terminal/Disk Utility or Firmware Password Utilities on another device.