Create a Bootable USB Drive with Multiple macOS Installers ! Monterey, Big Sur, Catalina, etc.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ค. 2024
- Behold: The Drive of Power! A single USB thumb drive with 4 bootable macOS Installers! In this video, I will give you a step-by-step walkthrough of downloading all necessary installers, and creating the drive. Easy! My drive includes High Sierra, Catalina, Big Sur, and Monterey, but you can use almost any macOS.
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You made my day! Since Apple did not allow me, to install High Sierra on an older Macbook Pro again, where I had installed Monterey and where even the recovery program did not work anymore, your insructions worked flawless. Thanks a lot!
Wow! I had no idea you could partition the thumb drive to create multiple installers on a single thumb drive. This will be so much easier than hunting for the version I’m looking for, they’re all on one now. Thanks so much! 😊
Glad to help! Thanks for watching!
I was looking for this exact tutorial. Thank you so much! I'm going to make the usb with the last 4 or 5 macOS installers on it.
Your a blessing! Now i wont be bringing too many drive thank you.😊
Thank you ! It was very well explained.
Thanks for watching. Glad it helped!
I found a 2015 Macbook Air for $60 sans hard drive, and your videos have walked me through upgrading to a 1tb SSD and getting him a fully operational system for about $100. He loves it. I am not a tech person and your explanations are just perfect! Thank you!
This comment is EXACTLY why I make these videos. There are bargains to be found out there. Any you may have found the best yet! Thanks for watching, and thanks for taking the time to leave such a nice comment!
Very helpfull video.Thank you very much
Thanks a lot sir i have searching for this video from long time
Most welcome
Thanks for your work. It will be a great help :)... Danke dafür :)...
Glad to help! Good luck. And thanks for watching!
Excellent!!
This was brilliant and got my died Mac working. Thank you.
You’re very welcome! Thanks for watching.
Thank you sir
thank you life saver 👍
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching!
Great!!
LEGEND!
Thank you! QUESTION… I have an already made bootable drive that was made exactly the way you instructed. If I simply want to move that one to a *different* thumb drive, can I just *drag & and drop* the installer onto a newly formatted thumb drive? Meaning one that’s been formatted correctly as Mac OS Extended Journaled.
The original one was created properly via the terminal, and I’ve even used it to restore my iMac. So I’m hoping since that part of the job was already done, that I can just drag & drop the installer to the new drive. Or do I actually have to do the whole creation process all over again?
Hi, thank you for your awesome videos. I have a MBP 15 inch early 2011 with macOS Sierra currently in a boot loop. Can I use High Sierra as a bootable? If not, how can I make the os Sierra bootable as os Sierra is not on your list? Thank you.
I couldn’t get 2 of the operating systems, I got that message you mentioned. I just downloaded them from off torrents
Thanks for the tutorial. I do hate working in terminal if I can avoid it.
Yeah, it helps when you can just copy/paste the commands (and it works, lol). Thanks for watching.
Picked up a "flashy ? folder" 21.5" 2013 i7 4770, 8gb ram, 250 blade (failed) SSD, GTX 750M gpu iMac for $50! After many failed attempts to make a USB boot? I was able to use a USB 3.0 to SATA cable and Kinston 500gb SSD in recovery mode and load up Mavericks. Obviously just a temp fix till I get all the upgrades and tools, but I will say this vid at least inspired me to initially give it a go. Thanks!
Awesome! Great job, and great deal. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for this, well explained.
pls, i mistakenly format my bootable drive, pls, can i recover it back in any way?
thanks!
Do you have a link for OS Sierra please?
You caught my attention....😀
I could not get El Capitan, Big Sur or Monterey to download. Otherthan that I love it.
The download links link back to App Store from where the old Mac os were dimmed. I cannot download the older versions for my older Mac
That seems like an even better reason to have an older Mac around. LOL
Everyone should have an old Mac or two lying around! Thanks for watching!
If you I just want install one MacOS like Monterey, could I just drag and drop the installer onto the USB drive after I've erased and formatted it? I followed the instructions for the terminal and it says "Mac is not a valid volume mount point."
Thank you for these videos. Apparently, my SSD is corrupt and I need to replace it. My issue is, with the corrupt SSD I can't get my System Preferences to open at all - it gives me an error message, which makes downloading the OS impossible because it tries to open the System Preferences.
Is there a way to download the OS without going through the App Store?
what macOS version you are doing? I tried to do this with my 2010 MacBook Pro with Catalina and nothing, and I tried with my M1 Air and nothing? please help
Hi, Im trying to download a version of high sierra onto my Macbook pro OS Montery, but it wont allow me to. Im trying to download it onto this , then onto a usb drive and then try to reboot an old mac mini from high sierra up to Os Catalina. im in over my head, Please Help !!
Yea I can not get the Terminal to recognize by password nor find the copy and paste for High Sierra
Hopefully you solved this by now but for anyone else… just type the account password you use to boot your device, then press return/enter. If it doesn’t work, it will say incorrect password. Try again. You will NOT see characters appear as you type in the password in terminal.
Hope that helped someone.
Thanks for the tutorial very clear . I got stuck on password, when l tried to type it is not allowed me to do it. Any recommendation? Thanks again
I would check your user accounts password settings in System Settings.
your links arent working anymore?
virtualization is more simple give the current processor power
Hi, I am running Mojave on my MacBook Pro 15". I managed top download Mojave, High Sierra and Monterey, but cannot download Big Sur and Catalina as the response says either "Not available" or "cannot run on this computer" so I have those Partitions unfilled... on my Sandisk 128 USB/USBC thumb drive. Does this happen to anyone else?
Hi, can use an external ssd as usb drive? Thx
Any idea what to do if the copying to disk sticks at 0%?
How well does this work with older Mac OS's? Such as Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard?
I also would like to know how to do it for Snow Leopard
From the store it doesn’t allow download reporting the purchase could not be completed
Good tutorial. I am able to make a bootable installed for Monterey, but I am unable to download older OS's do you know why that is?
Probably the machine you are using is too new and it doesn't support the older OS, so it won't allow you to download OR install them.
I have this issue, I currently own a 2023 MacBook Pro M3 Pro chip and can only create OS Sonoma and OS Ventura install media with it. To create Catalina, High Sierra, Mojave media I am currently using a 2015 Retina 13' MacBook Pro (A1502) model that I bought to fix up and sell, it's not ideal and it means when I have partitioned the drive into 5 partitions, I created OS Sonoma and OS Ventura install media on my own Macbook and then have to create the other 3 install medias on the same drive from the 2015 MacBook I am fixing up... pain in the backside, but it works.
I wish apple would just allow you to download (not necessarily install) any older OS to create install media.
@@thefiestaguy8831 Thank you, I was able to sort it out.
Question - I tried to do this on a old MBP that is running Catalina (the newest for that model) how do i get Monterey or Big Sur?
How to Install macOS Monterey on Older Unsupported Macs, MacBooks, etc.
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This method does not work with ElCapitan, when downloaded and moved to app folder, it does not have same icon as High Sierra. Help???
I did all the steps but when I get ready to install the os it doesn’t let me because it says the usb drive is locked. How is that possible when I formatted it exactly the way you showed 😢
the big sur terminal command has extra "/" in it? I just keep getting errors, on all the installer commands in Terminal
The extra “\” is to escape the space between Big and Sur. Catalina, Mojave, etc doesn’t need it because they are single word titles.
Is it normal, when i hold option in the boot picker there is efi partition appear, so you got the internal disk, macOS Installer, and EFI partition? And then when the macOS is choosen, it is not going to the installer, but to the recovery.
I found that if I created the bootable media this way, it works fine and shows the icons.
BUT when I cloned the bootable USB, to another bootable USB, some of the installers had missing icons and weren't named properly and just said "EFI Boot" when I put that USB into a Mac and tried to boot from them.
As I understand booting into the recovery section is normal - after all the first thing terminal does when creating a bootable USB is to copy the OS Recovery system onto the USB. The idea being it's not JUST a bootable USB that you can ONLY install an OS from, it's a USB that you can install an OS from and also launch terminal to run commands, or launch Time Machine to restore from a backup, etc.
Ideal for someone who has an OS on their existing Mac with loads of applications and files they don't want to lose, but need to run a repair command or tweak something in terminal.
I don’t have enough storage on my Mac mini to download the OS in the first steps. What would you recommend?
You can create the boot disk on any computer. But if you just have the mini, then I guess you’ll need to free up some room first. Good luck and thanks for watching!
@@FamilyGeekery thanks for the great video and quick feedback. I have both 2014 and 2018 minis. But was also hoping I can find a tutorial on upgrading my 2018 storage. Looks like this one is locked down more. Have you experimented with this one?
No, I really wanted a 2018, but they were too expensive for me, lol. But with the Thunderbolt ports, you could use an external drive on the 2018 with nearly the same speed as an internal, as long as you buy the drive (and not a cheap thumbdrive).
@@FamilyGeekery Yeah. I really wish I had watched your video before buying the 2018!
zsh: killed sudo --volume /Volumes/Boot
I get this error from the terminal. NB: Boot is my volume name
zsh:killed usually means the OS you are trying to create install media for, is not compatible with the OS you are currently running on that Mac device.
I.E I cannot create OS Big Sur or OS High Sierra install media on my 2023 MacBook Pro M3 Pro laptop as it's too new, I can only create OS Sonoma and OS Ventura install media. I got the same error when trying to create OS Catalina, OS Mojave and OS High Sierra install media.
The work around was to create OS Sonoma and OS Ventura install media using terminal on my 2023 Mac and then eject and disconnect the USB and run the three relevant commands in terminal using in my case a 2015 Retina MacBook Pro 13' that I am in the process of repairing to sell.
It is a bit ridiculous and a pain in the backside to have to use two laptops to create a single USB with 5 different OS installers on it, but it does work.
How do you get the High Sierra Installer with a computer running Ventura ? It won't allow me to download the installer from the App Store using this method. It keeps trying to run my software update and says everything is updated. I also directly downloaded the dmg file from Apple but I can't run the installer to get the app because it says not compatible. I'm trying to install on an old Mac MIni. I also can't run recovery mode on the Mac MIni. The date and time are correct but it just keeps saying the server is not available.
You can't.
I've got the same problem as I own a 2023 MacBook Pro M3 Pro chip laptop. I can only create OS Sonoma and OS Ventura install media from it.
I happen to own at the moment a 2015 Retina MacBook Pro 13 inch (A1502 model) and a 2012 MacBook Pro 13 inch unibody (A1278 model) both of which I am fixing up to sell - as such I can download some older OS versions from them.
So for a bootable installer I made today with OS Sonoma, OS Ventura, OS Mojave, OS Catalina and OS High Sierra. I did exactly the same as he did here, but for OS Sonoma and OS Ventura I made the install media in terminal on my 2023 Mac laptop, then once done ejected the drive, then connected it to the 2015 retina MacBook Pro I currently have, and plan to sell, to then create the OS Catalina, OS Mojave and OS High Sierra install media on using the three relevant sudo commands in terminal.
It's a pain in the backside having to use two different Mac laptops to create a single USB with 5 different OS installers on it, but it does work.
The website is down; any new link?
The only thing odd on mine is it doesn’t show all the icons, only Catalina had the icon, the others were generic usb drive icons.
I had this issue when I tried to clone the USB bootable to another USB to create a second bootable USB.
When I ran all of the commands one by one to create install media onto the same drive, all of the icons showed correctly.
I can only assume the clone system (I own a copy of Carbon Copy Cloner) doesn't always work 100% and sometimes the icons are missing or don't transfer properly if you clone one bootable USB to another.
How come i don’t see “Scheme” as an option when I go to erase my USB? Also, when I click “Get” after finding Catalina in the app store, it says “the requested version of MacOS is not available.” I click OK and then it stops downloading and says “Your Mac is up to date - Cataline 10.15.7” What do I do?
Same thing happened to me. I would like to know what to do also please.
me too. I want to download High Seirra for my older Mac but the "get" is dimmmed.
I don't seem to be able to open any of your links
I am getting Monterey is not available for my old Mac Pro 5,1. Seems Apple are blocking these links
Have you tried downloading on a separate computer? I'm sure Apple can block links if they know what computer you're on. But try another if you have one. Let me know how it goes!
How do I delete the installers off my machine after i'm done building the boot drive?
They will likely be in your applications folder.
Open finder.
On the left hand side, find "Applications" tab, click on that.
You will see icons for all your installed applications.
IF when creating the media, you did what most people do like myself, and put the installers into the applications folder, you should see "Install macOS Sierra" for example or the name of any other versions of macOS you created install media for in the applications folder. To delete it just drag the installer icon to the trash icon and then empty the trash.
Left out the part about you need to copy the installers to the application folder
Normally, if you download them from the App Store they end up there, but you’re right. If you download them any other way, they need to end up in whatever folder you’re using in the command line commands.
@@FamilyGeekery Thanks
I am going to add a windows install to the drive as well.
Can you do this from a windows computer?
I’m sure there are partition tools for Windows (and Linux) that would allow you to create something similar. But this video only focuses on using Mac’s built in drive tools.
FYI. The download link for High Sierra and Mojave won't download on M1 or M2 Macs.💻
Good to know. Thanks! I may pin this comment to inform others.
Bro now I knew who ate the Apple
you have had your page taken down I think...........links are not working...?
I keep getting "command not found" after entering my password.
Often means the installer isn't in the place you specified in the terminal command.
I.e the default place that everyone uses is to put the installers into the "Applications" folder on your Mac, however when you download them by default they might not go into the applications folder...
When you open the .dmg file and click on the .pkg make sure to install the installer to the applications folder. Then in terminal make sure the command in the first part specifies "/Applications" folder, as it should do be default.
I had the same issue and it transpires I was trying to create OS Catalina bootable USB but I hadn't actually got a Catalina installer in the applications folder - so there's no way it can create the install media since the source files to create the installer don't exist.
can you just sell me the drive bro?
there is no terminal commands for elcapitan
It’s formatted a little different than the others since it’s older. But I just edited the page and added the command line for it.
@@FamilyGeekery thanks bro why apple is difficult in everything
@@FamilyGeekery thank you so much only it dont want to work for me
i have installed the file to the applications folder where the my apps are installed,
no succes
after open the terminal and at this commands (i have changed the name of the usb drive after i formatted and did 2 partions one with the name Sandiskcapitan)
i opened terminal and past this command:
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Sandiskcapitan --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app
( this message is what i get after i write my password,)
sudo: /Applications/Install OS X El Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia: command not found
macbook@MacBook-Pro-van-Macbook ~ %
something is not working for me is there easier options i hate apple so much dude, i will never purchase apple products anymore.
I guess my first question is why are you trying to create a boot disk for El Capitan versus using the internet recovery method? But as far as your command line goes, looks like it can’t find the install app. Did you download it and leave it in your application folder?
@@FamilyGeekery I have a similar issue:
≥ ls /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Big\ Sur.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia 8:50
/Applications/Install macOS Big Sur.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia
mattotoole in /Volumes
≥ sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Big\ Sur.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/BigSur
/Applications/Install macOS Big Sur.app does not appear to be a valid OS installer application.
Bro what the password
The password is the same password you use to login to the Mac. It's the same as an "Administrator" password in windows, since it requires elevated privileges to write files to a USB.
I need help
Tell us something new :). I already sell bootable OSX USB Stick with ALL versions! All OSX versions (Tiger upwards) on a SINGLE USB flash drive! Jaguar, Panther, Puma and Cheetah won't work on same format, unfortunately.