Q: Mavericks Install DVD

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Ok, I'm not going to go into details, regarding Terms of Use and its applicability, however as a user who obviously has been experienced enough helping other users and who happened to reply in this discussion could you, please, review my first question? I would really be grateful.

With all respect,

I.S.

I did indeed completely misread the post I responded to. I saw .iso, and jumped to the wrong conclusion. We see many posts here from users asking about installing an .iso image they downloaded from a torrent site, or P2P network. My mistake to botch reading the post so badly. Though as I said, I was asking, not accusing.

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We obviously aren't able to come to understanding with one another So, I better repeat my question:

I performed all of these commands that were marked as the solution by the OP (see the top of the very 1st page of this discussion) and it did create Mavericks.iso but it's 8.5 GB in size and in the process of running commands in Terminal  I got a message

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

hdiutil: resize: unable to read -size parameter in "b"

Usage: hdiutil resize <sizespec> [options] <image>

  hdiutil resize -help

Should I worry about that? Is the .ISO corrupted or smth? I know this is an old thread but I started mine couple of days ago and haven't received answers yet, I need very much to know what to do and what the problem is (if it exists)?

I would have to presume something's wrong since the .dmg file is 5.35 GB, and an .iso created from that should be pretty much the same size. Can't say I've ever tried it, though.

You could try using Disk Utility. With the .dmg file within the Mavericks installer's SharedSupport folder mounted on the desktop, highlight it in the left pane of Disk Utility's interface, then click the New Image button at the top. Choose DVD/CD Master in the drop down menu and save the file.

This will create a file ending in .cdr, but according to a couple sources I looked up, all you have to do is change the extension to .iso and it will work (supposedly).

Thanks very much! I just at the moment was trying to burn installed.dmg to DVD but it constantly saying it fails to do this. So I accidentally stumbled upon this thread Error message trying to burn InstallESD.dmg but to no avail as I quite don't understand how to run an app with admin account. Does the latter mean to run as root user? If yes then then new bunch of questions appears as I enabled root user but don't know how to run an app (Disk Utility in my case) in this mode? I'm completely lost

If yours is the only user account on your Mac, then it will already be an admin account. Never enable root. If there's anything you need to do that requires root access, then use the sudo command (in Terminal). That gives you temporary root powers without actually enabling it. There are a couple of things Apple's own online documents note that can only be achieved by enabling root, but the need to do that is rare. Using sudo covers pretty much anything else.

Unless you use a dual layer DVD, it will always fail since a standard single layer disk can't hold all of the data in the .dmg file.

Um, ok, so I had already disabled root user and yes, I use double-layered DVD. See what I'll when follow your recommendations

I have solved your problem. I saw your other thread and it seems you used the commands from this website instead of mine earlier in this thread:

http://www.technobuzz.net/create-bootable-mavericks-os-x-iso-step-step-guide/

Most of the commands are exactly the same as mine, except the one causing you trouble.

In that article, they use the command

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

and I use

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

They look the same, but they are using different quote symbols around { print $1 }. Tecnobuzz's is ‘{ print $1 }’ which is incorrect. It should be '{ print $1 }'

It's quite hard to see the difference, but look hard enough and you will see it.

If you make an iso for 10.9.5 with the correct commands it should be about 6.1GB.

Okay, just noting since you hadn't specifically stated using a dual layer DVD.

Creating the image with Disk Utility will also create an oversized file for a single layer DVD. I presume you need the file on a disk so you can install Mavericks in a VM such as Parallels? But since you're asking in the Mavericks forum, then no?

If not, and your intention is to have a bootable means of installing Mavericks instead of using Recovery, or Internet Recovery mode, then an 8 GB flash drive is much simpler. DiskMaker X works great for that. There are manual methods to do the same thing, but I've used DiskMaker X for Lion, Mountain Lion and Mavericks. It works just fine. Still haven't made a Yosemite drive for myself. I can recycle my Mountain Lion flash drive for that since I highly doubt I'll ever install ML again.

I was just trying to make bootable DVD of Mavericks. Yes I know about the USB method but I wanted to try with DVD just out of wish to explore different opportunities given by OS X and because I don't have any other drive like USB, e-Card (or whatever its name is) at hand.

Great many thanks to you!!!! I noticed that difference, it's so tiny. I already made the .iso by Kurt's method and now I'll definitely try out yours.

Thanks to both of you and Happy New Year!!

But I just wonder for the sake of future, why the simple burning of .dmg to DVD went wrong?

I had originally gone the DVD route for Lion (that was just small enough to fit on a single layer disk). But booting from one is maddeningly slow. It took an older iMac (2008 model, I think), at least 15 minutes to boot from a DVD, and only 30 seconds or so from a bootable flash drive. It installs a heck of a lot faster from a flash drive, too.

Just putting a copy of the installer onto dvd isn't enough to make it bootable. That's why we make the bootable iso first and then burn the iso to dvd instead.