Making ISO of Big Sur in terminal

Hello,


I've tried several different attempts to complete this task, always with the same result, saying

sudo: /Applications/Install macOS Big Sur/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia: command not found

after successfully creating the file in /tmp using hdiutil and attaching. I can't see why I have the issue, I've seen the same steps listed on several websites, and I have also set my shell profile to use bash instead of zsh. I thought this might be why I was not permitted to use sudo so I switched. Please any help would be greatly appreciated, I had completed the same process on my other macbook with High Sierra without any issues. Please let me know what, if anything I'm doing wrong. Thank you!

MacBook Air (2020 or later)

Posted on Dec 12, 2021 12:46 PM

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Dec 12, 2021 2:24 PM in response to paddy_detox

Below command, in Terminal, will ONLY WORK if the full installer called " Install Big Sur " is located in the Applications folder of the computer.


Further, the " Untitled " ,in below command, is the Name given to the destination drive that should become the Bootable Installer of Big Sur


Lastly, below command should be run from an Admin Account and Without Quotation Marks.


" sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Big\ Sur.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled "

Dec 12, 2021 3:03 PM in response to Owl-53

I have downloaded the installer file for big sur on the command line as an app file so it is in the Applications folder, but I realize I may not have changed the destination since I formatted and named the USB drive on my Linux laptop. I will try again after doing a full format on the thumb drive on the mac and starting over, making sure to check the destination name.

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