Q: make a boot disk
I am trying to make a boot disk, a startup disk. I have several usb drives, 1, 2, 3 TB, or I could use a flash drive, if it would fit on a 32 GB flash drive that is. I assume that it would, as people are selling them online all over the place to assist people who are having trouble installing el crapitan. A lot of them must be as one of the amazon sellers showed 4000 available, 39 left. Yikes. I can't get el crapitan to install to save my life. it hangs, never works. The extent of apple's support is suggest that I say "Yes" when I start, as I must "accept" the apple agreement before starting, even though I told her not the problem, she sent me a three page instruction paper on how to start el crapitan and that to proceed with the install you must say yes, and you must acceptt their agreement. I did. no problem with that part. but that is what she things, and the two girls before, and the two afterwards were in the same boat. Sir, let me send you instructions on how to download it. "No I say, I did that. Do you really think anyone has trouble pressing a button that says "Download?" Evidently, yes. because she sent me instructions, again, no joke, on how to press the button, to get it to "download." Complete with how to do it with your finger, and how to do it if you have a plug in mouse, with a separate section if you had a cordless mouse. Darn me silly.
O.K. HELP! el CRAPITAN will not complete the upgrade process. Please tell me if it normally takes 8 to 12 hours on your systems. I assume it had hanged, and killed the process. rebooted, retried... same thing. nothing after 12 hours or more. Yes, I used the track pad on my Apple Macbook Air 11", i7, 4gb ram, 250 GB SSD. I did not use a wireless mouse. I did not use a cordless mouse. I did not have trouble pressing download, and after I did, it was successful because it changed to read "DOWNLOADING..." If there are any apple employees here who don't... never mind. if you work for Apple, leave, just freaking leave I do not have any more time or patience for you. Just trust me the FREAKING DOWNLOAD COMPLETES O.K.. O.K.? As it gave an error message when I tried an install from the same disk. So I tried installing it from a second disk, a WD 3 TB usb drive. Seems to hang. (Tell me know if I should EXPECT TO WAIT 15 HOURS OR MORE for the thing to verify. Anyway, it doesn't work. So I found a TON of listings, some already selling thousands of them, for small usb thumb flash drives of various sizes, they call them BOOT disk, so....
I am assuming that el Crapitan must be installed on a BOOTABLE DRIVE OR PARTITION. Something that it would have been so freaking sweet if they would have SAID THIS SOMEWHERE SOMETIME ANYTIME IN THE DESCRIPTION OF THE PACKAGE ON THEIR SITE. O.K., so I'm guessing I ned a formatted boot disk in some way. Color me cheap, stupid, whatever. But instead of buying on online from Amazon, I thought how hard can it be? I can do that. Big mistake. Making a disk a startup disk, or bootable used to be in the old days an easy as pie thing...
However Apple's support website, the help in the programs of terminal, the man pages diskutil, the accessory disk utility program apple supplies, do NOT HAVE ANY HELP FILES THAT REFERENCE BOOK DISK, START UP DISK, or any combination of the same, you know... how do you, how can you make a.... whatever. nothing. not there. And here, in the consumer customer help pages. no posts that can be found either.
This isn't rocket science. It can be done. How do I make a startup disk? how to I format a disks a startup disk. or a book disk, whatever.
And if y'all are Apple support people, and if you tell me that I pressed the download button wrong or that I pressed the single button in the wrong sequence... I am taking my mac to a shooting range and filming it being shot to pieces, and posting it on iTunes. And never, ever, never ever, buying a mac or an apple anything. ****, this whole experience has so soured me I might never do that either.
What do you know?
MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), it's old
Posted on Aug 25, 2016 6:08 AM
Maybe you should switch back to Windows.
You don't need a bootable installer in order to install OS X. You have some problems that are preventing you from installing. None of us can tell from you long and whiny road what that might be. Creating a bootable installer will not alter the problems inherent on your Mac that are preventing the install.
Posted on Aug 27, 2016 4:53 AM