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Q: how to make a dvd from the mavericks form the app store

hi all need step by step on how to make a dvd from the mavericks osx i downloaded from app store .

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 28, 2013 6:14 PM

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  • by den.thed,

    den.thed den.thed Oct 28, 2013 6:20 PM in response to freeway29
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    Oct 28, 2013 6:20 PM in response to freeway29

    The following instructions work for all three Lion, Mountain Lion and Mavericks.

     

    How to Burn a Lion Install DVD and Create Bootable Thumb Drive | Mac|Life

  • by freeway29,

    freeway29 freeway29 Oct 28, 2013 7:33 PM in response to den.thed
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    Oct 28, 2013 7:33 PM in response to den.thed

    did what the thread said and half way through verifying disc it spat it out and said failed, but i tried the disk anyway restarted imac and held down c button till apple logo came up and it just spat disc out any i deas.

  • by den.thed,

    den.thed den.thed Oct 28, 2013 7:52 PM in response to freeway29
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    Oct 28, 2013 7:52 PM in response to freeway29

    Personally I prefer using a USB Flashdrive or small partition on one of my External HD instead of a DVD.

     

    Don't know, could be either your Superdrive is dirty or the DVD is bad.

     

    Are you using a blank DVD-R..?

     

    If so, try another one.

  • by tywebb13,

    tywebb13 tywebb13 Oct 28, 2013 11:51 PM in response to den.thed
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    Oct 28, 2013 11:51 PM in response to den.thed

    After downloading the Install OS X Mavericks.app file from the Mac App Store, run these 12 commands in Terminal to create a Mavericks.iso file and then burn it to a dual layer DVD with Disk Utility. You may then boot up from it by holding the option key down and then install mavericks. This will not install a recovery partition. To do that, uncompress and run the script file https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13872235/Musings/Recovery%20Partition%20Crea tor%203.7.zip

     

    hdiutil attach /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg -noverify -nobrowse -mountpoint /Volumes/install_app

     

    hdiutil convert /Volumes/install_app/BaseSystem.dmg -format UDSP -o /tmp/Mavericks

     

    hdiutil resize -size 8g /tmp/Mavericks.sparseimage

     

    hdiutil attach /tmp/Mavericks.sparseimage -noverify -nobrowse -mountpoint /Volumes/install_build

     

    rm /Volumes/install_build/System/Installation/Packages

     

    cp -rp /Volumes/install_app/Packages /Volumes/install_build/System/Installation/

     

    hdiutil detach /Volumes/install_app

     

    hdiutil detach /Volumes/install_build

     

    hdiutil resize -size `hdiutil resize -limits /tmp/Mavericks.sparseimage | tail -n 1 | awk '{ print $1 }'`b /tmp/Mavericks.sparseimage

     

    hdiutil convert /tmp/Mavericks.sparseimage -format UDTO -o /tmp/Mavericks

     

    rm /tmp/Mavericks.sparseimage

     

    mv /tmp/Mavericks.cdr ~/Desktop/Mavericks.iso

  • by baltwo,

    baltwo baltwo Oct 29, 2013 2:37 PM in response to freeway29
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    Oct 29, 2013 2:37 PM in response to freeway29
  • by tywebb13,

    tywebb13 tywebb13 Oct 29, 2013 2:52 PM in response to baltwo
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    Oct 29, 2013 2:52 PM in response to baltwo

    Yeah. The method for Lion for does not work in mavericks. That's why I posted a new method for DVDs (This thread is for DVDs, not USBs). My method for DVDs does in fact work.

     

    But a DVD will boot up slower than a USB though, so a USB would be better.

     

    The 2 methods baltwo linked to however give different results.

     

    The method involving making invisible files visible will not install a recovery partition. But the one using createinstallmedia will. To do it a better way for USBs therefore should be thus:

     

    Your 8 GB USB drive should be called Untitled and formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). The installer should be called Install OS X Mavericks.app and should be in your Applications folder. 

    After downloading Mavericks from the Mac App Store, run this in terminal and wait about 20 minutes: 

     

    sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app --nointeraction 

     

    You should see something like this: 

    Erasing Disk: 0%... 10%... 20%... 100%...
    Copying installer files to disk...
    Copy complete.
    Making disk bootable...
    Copying boot files...
    Copy complete.
    Done. 

     

    You can then boot up from the USB by holding down the option key, then install Mavericks from the USB. 

  • by baltwo,

    baltwo baltwo Oct 29, 2013 3:45 PM in response to tywebb13
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    Oct 29, 2013 3:45 PM in response to tywebb13

    Got it, but AFAIK, this works for either USB sticks or DVDs. BTW, the  Diskmaker X app uses the same set of commands as you're advocating and provides a GUI. See http://diskmakerx.com/.

  • by tywebb13,

    tywebb13 tywebb13 Oct 29, 2013 4:26 PM in response to baltwo
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    Oct 29, 2013 4:26 PM in response to baltwo

    I've tried createinstallmedia with DVDs too. It will make a bootable DVD but it refuses to actually install from it.

     

    Diskmaker X no longer supports DVD either. I saw this in their changelog: "No more DVD support. DVDs are soooooo 2000"

     

    Yeah they may be soooooo 2000 - but clearly many still use it.

     

    So if you want to make a bootable DVD, I'd suggest you still use my method I posted above at https://discussions.apple.com/message/23575424#23575424

  • by baltwo,Helpful

    baltwo baltwo Oct 29, 2013 4:47 PM in response to tywebb13
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    Oct 29, 2013 4:47 PM in response to tywebb13

    Thanks for clarifying. You might want to pass that onto Diskmaker X's developer. I find it incredible that it'll make a bootable DVD that doesn't contain a usable installer.

  • by den.thed,

    den.thed den.thed Oct 29, 2013 5:01 PM in response to baltwo
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    Oct 29, 2013 5:01 PM in response to baltwo

    baltwo wrote:

     

    FWIW, den.thed's instructions don't work for Mavericks.

     

    Thanks for the heads up...

     

    I now see the error of my way and used DiskMaker X.

  • by baltwo,

    baltwo baltwo Oct 29, 2013 5:17 PM in response to den.thed
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    Oct 29, 2013 5:17 PM in response to den.thed

    Glad to help. 

  • by freeway29,Solvedanswer

    freeway29 freeway29 Oct 29, 2013 6:30 PM in response to freeway29
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    Oct 29, 2013 6:30 PM in response to freeway29

    Thanks to all that has helped.

  • by SteveKir,

    SteveKir SteveKir Nov 5, 2013 4:37 AM in response to baltwo
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    Nov 5, 2013 4:37 AM in response to baltwo

    How about this method: I have downloaded Install OS X Mavericks.app from the App Store. It appeared on my Internal HD > Aplications. (In it's Contents are 9 files/folders.) I have copied  OS X Mavericks.app to an external Firewire HD (500 GB capacity, there are other files on it but plenty free space.)

     

    If I need to do another clean installation of Mavericks, can't I just run that app and get Mavericks re-installed on my Internal HD? Its a much simpler way.

     

     

     

    (For extra safety, I could also buy an 8 GB thumb drive and put another copy of the app on it.)

  • by baltwo,

    baltwo baltwo Nov 5, 2013 10:14 AM in response to SteveKir
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    Nov 5, 2013 10:14 AM in response to SteveKir

    Only if you have a bootable system installed on the ext FWHD. To make the 8 GB stick a bootable installer, see http://osxdaily.com/2013/10/23/create-os-x-mavericks-install-drive/

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