Mac OS X Base System???

BESM ALLAH

IF I BOUGHT A BRAND NEW MAC LAPTOP AND DID NOT CONNECT TO THE INTERNET AT ALL AND BOOTED TO THE ULTILITY DISK COMMAND - R

DO YOU FIND THE MAC OS X BASE SYSTEM DRIVE ?

IF THE ANSWER WAS POSITIVE THEN IT IS NOT AN INTERNET DRIVE.

AND ALLAH KNOWS BEST 🙂

IN THE NAME OF ALLAH

NOW I HAVE A QUESTION.

I MADE IT TO COPY THE IMAGE INSIDE THE MAC OS X BASE SYSTEM DRIVE AND PAST IT ON ONE DRIVE INSIDE THE HARD DRIVE AFTER I PARTITIONED IT TO MULTI PARTITIONS HARD.

I THEN REBOOTED IN TRAGET DISK REBOOT HOLDING THE ALT KEY ONLY WHILE STARTING UP

THEN CHOOSED THE PARTITION I PASTED THE IMAGE TO WHICH WAS ONLY ONE THAT SHOWS ON THE PANE.

IT REBOOTED THEN A PROGRESS PAR SHOWS AND IT TOOK ONE NIGHT AND NOTHING HAPPENED AFTER THE PROGRESS PAR COMPLEATED !!!!!!!!!! NONE. ....... I COULD NOT BE PATIAINT MORE THAN THAT SHUT IT DOWN THEN WENT TO SLEEP.

HAVE I DONE SOMETHING WRONG ?

THANK YOU FOR READING

Your image didn't make it into the poast

That's the USB drive.

ctrl-click it & choose 'Reveal in Finder'

I can no longer see your screenshot. Please repost it.

This partition mounts as part of the install process. If you are performing a clean installation then you can use Disk Utility to partition to a single partition, and when you then continue to install OS X the system will create the recovery partition on the internal drive.

I can see the screenshot now. The answer you marked correct is wrong. The item named "Mac OS X Base System" is on a netboot volume. Were you booted in Internet Recovery mode at the time?

I am assuming that this drive is actually on a server somewhere and not my SSD.

That's right.

The information being given to you here is incorrect.

This disk is very much part of the normal installation of OS X, and in your case is a networked volume because you booted the system into "Internet Recovery" mode, which loads the recovery drive and its tools from a server at Apple instead of from your local drive. This happens if the system cannot find a valid local boot volume when you instruct it to boot to the Recovery partition (ie, by holding Command-R at startup), or if you have forced the system to load in Internet Recovery mode by holding Option-Command-R. Again, a normal part of the installation process.

If you would like to boot from your manually created USB drive, then instead of holding Command-R or Option-Command-R at startup, simply hold the Option key and you will be presented with a boot menu, in which you can select your USB drive and load directly to it.

You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is a couple of years old, less people are likely to look at it. A new post would be much more visible. You can link to this one.

You need to install using an installer, not copy a disk image.