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Hi All
I'm currently looking the Installation DVD for Mavericks. Reason being, that our company use's over 100 MacBook Pro's and we can't download 6GB everytime we want to upgrade a user's laptop. We would like it to be on DVD. Where can i get the installation DVD from or even download it?
Regards
Desiganp
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
I think you will be better off with a bootable USB instead. They boot faster and are easier to make. But I've also included instructions for making a bootable DVD if you want that too.
USB
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.
Note that this will also install a recovery partition.
DVD
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
Try booting it up with option key. It will take you to the startup manager. Then select the dvd. If successful it will take a while to boot up. Then you may install mavericks from the dvd.
I meant if this was a correct look of burned OS like that on the screenshot above? I don't want to boot up from DVD right now, as for now I'm satisfied with 10.9.5.
Yes. That's what it is supposed to look like but the only way to see if it really is bootable is to test it out the way I said.
And what is that Russian word установка? Is it Install?
My installer app on the dvd is called Install OS X Mavericks.
Apart from that, your dvd and mine look the same.
Yes, that word is "Install" 🙂 After the burn process succeeded I now feel comfortably. I'm sure I'll successfully boot up from the DVD.
TDK was the hero.
Excellent. I have no idea why the Verbatim disks were giving you so much trouble. I use those, and Sony discs all the time with no issues. Oh well, as long as it works.
As tywebb13 mentioned, you should boot to the DVD just to make sure it will boot. There's zero harm to the system in trying. When it finally finishes booting to the DVD (it will take a while), all you have to do is note to yourself, "Yup, here I am at the install screen. It works.", then choose to restart.
"I have no idea why the Verbatim disks were giving you so much trouble", not Verbatim but Think Xtra that nobody heard of 🙂 The cheap media was causing such pain. I'd be glad to have Verbatim but the only choice for DVD DL to buy in stores of my residence location 🙂 was TDK and it confirmed its reputation.
So if I'm trying to boot up (and if DON'T want to install) I'm going to hold these keys and just stop in the middle of it prior to the start of installation procedure? I don't want to disorganize my files etc...
You can't stop in the middle. It will simply startup to the minimal boot OS on the disk and finally display a menu asking what you want to do. It will be virtually the same menu you see if you do a Recovery Mode startup from the hidden partition on the hard drive. Then it will just sit there and wait for you to pick something. Instead, go to the Apple menu at the top left and choose to restart.
Everything is OK. Pressed Option, it displayed the startup screen with my start-up disk (Macintosh HD), Recovery Partition for 10.9 and my DVD-ROM (OS X Base System). Chose the first one and presto!
But you will have to choose the third one, i.e., OS X Base System, to boot up from the dvd.
So, the second time I risked to boot from the third and during ~15 most nervous minutes in my life when I feared of loss of all my data it went through all the steps up to Install Screen with all these options. It's functional as expected. Feel relieved. Thank you both endlessly, your help was beyond price as was this thread that proved to be of great use even after a year since was started!!! Hope it will help someone else.
Mavericks Install DVD
