how to make a dvd from the mavericks form the app store

The following instructions work for all three Lion, Mountain Lion and Mavericks.

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Personally I prefer using a USB Flashdrive or small partition on one of my External HD instead of a DVD.

Don't know, could be either your Superdrive is dirty or the DVD is bad.

Are you using a blank DVD-R..?

If so, try another one.

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

FWIW, den.thed's instructions don't work for Mavericks. Apple changed the procedure. Details in http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/how-to-make-your-own-bootable-os-x-10-9-mav ericks-usb-install-drive/ and http://osxdaily.com/2013/06/12/make-boot-os-x-mavericks-usb-install-drive/

Yeah. The method for Lion for does not work in mavericks. That's why I posted a new method for DVDs (This thread is for DVDs, not USBs). My method for DVDs does in fact work.

But a DVD will boot up slower than a USB though, so a USB would be better.

The 2 methods baltwo linked to however give different results.

The method involving making invisible files visible will not install a recovery partition. But the one using createinstallmedia will. To do it a better way for USBs therefore should be thus:

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.

Got it, but AFAIK, this works for either USB sticks or DVDs. BTW, the Diskmaker X app uses the same set of commands as you're advocating and provides a GUI. See http://diskmakerx.com/.

I've tried createinstallmedia with DVDs too. It will make a bootable DVD but it refuses to actually install from it.

Diskmaker X no longer supports DVD either. I saw this in their changelog: "No more DVD support. DVDs are soooooo 2000"

Yeah they may be soooooo 2000 - but clearly many still use it.

So if you want to make a bootable DVD, I'd suggest you still use my method I posted above at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5498718?answerId=23575424022#23575424022

Thanks for clarifying. You might want to pass that onto Diskmaker X's developer. I find it incredible that it'll make a bootable DVD that doesn't contain a usable installer.

baltwo wrote:

FWIW, den.thed's instructions don't work for Mavericks.

Thanks for the heads up... 😊

I now see the error of my way and used DiskMaker X.

Glad to help. 😉

How about this method: I have downloaded Install OS X Mavericks.app from the App Store. It appeared on my Internal HD > Aplications. (In it's Contents are 9 files/folders.) I have copied OS X Mavericks.app to an external Firewire HD (500 GB capacity, there are other files on it but plenty free space.)

If I need to do another clean installation of Mavericks, can't I just run that app and get Mavericks re-installed on my Internal HD? Its a much simpler way.

(For extra safety, I could also buy an 8 GB thumb drive and put another copy of the app on it.)

Only if you have a bootable system installed on the ext FWHD. To make the 8 GB stick a bootable installer, see http://osxdaily.com/2013/10/23/create-os-x-mavericks-install-drive/

baltwo wrote:

Only if you have a bootable system installed on the ext FWHD. To make the 8 GB stick a bootable installer, see http://osxdaily.com/2013/10/23/create-os-x-mavericks-install-drive/

Thanks. I will do that. However, would it not be possible to simply run the Mavericks installer.app and specify the internal hard drive as the target? ! would loose all settings of course, but that would be be what I wanted if the system had got corrupted and I needed a clean installation.