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make bootable USB el capitan

Does Apple have an official and proven method of creating a bootable USB stick image of El Capitan?

MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on Feb 9, 2016 10:25 PM

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Feb 9, 2016 10:36 PM in response to mhaseler

Here is a way to create such a bootable USB drive.

http://osxdaily.com/2015/09/30/create-os-x-el-capitan-boot-install-drive/

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Feb 9, 2016 10:38 PM in response to mhaseler

Here is Apple's writeup on this subject:

Create a bootable installer for OS X - Apple Support

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