Create A Bootable OS X Yosemite DVD/USB Drive

Well, as a word of advise if an Apple method exists (like a single command line), we can't encourage to people to rely on third party apps.

Good luck!

this method worked the best thanks, i was able to create an ISO image🙂

Hi there folks,

thank you for sharing this with us. If you're interested in an YOSEMITE install DVD that will also create a recovery HD (will not be created with the method described here) have a look at my post at MacRumors:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=20901162#post20901162

Regards, Mike Lite

ETA: Actually in response to woodmeister50

This works really well for a re-install. But is there a way to tweak it to create a totally clean install, removing previous user(s)?

You can make a bootable USB stick to install using this free program which will do all the work for you.

Bootable USB Flash Drive – Diskmaker X

You should have a backup of your current Mavericks partition on an external drive, in which case, there is no need to create a bootable USB drive or DVD.

Brilliant!!!

Would you have a script that would execute the commands in sequence? Any help or direction on how to create a script would be greatly appreciated.

TIA

You are absolutely correct, but this thread is more catered to people who did not have such foresight and are in the unfortunate position of having to recover their one and only partition.

Hello! How do you make an iso of El Capitan with terminal?