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Now you can boot up from your newly bootable disk and either Install OSX10.9 on another device or use the Terminal/Disk Utility or Firmware Password Utilities on another device. Remove the existing Packages alias link from the newly restored image rm /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/System/Installation/PackagesĬopy the full OSX Mavericks Packages over to the new image….takes a while cp -R /Volumes/OS\ X\ Install\ ESD/Packages/ /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/System/Installation/PackagesĪnd there it is! – to eject the new bootable USB OSX Mavericks 10.9 disk ‘cd’ to home and eject cd ~/ hdiutil eject /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/

This will change ‘ BootDisk‘ to ‘ OS X Base System‘ This puts you back in the Finder in front of the newly mounted InstallESD.dmg, go back to Terminal and clone the BaseSystem.dmg to the remote USB drive sudo asr restore -source /Volumes/OS\ X\ Install\ ESD/BaseSystem.dmg -target /Volumes/BootDisk/ -erase -noverify Swap to the newly mounted image cd /Volumes/InstallESD.dmg Click on the EFI Boot, so it will be used as the Startup disk. Insert the USB Flash Drive, hold the option key and press the power button, this allows you to choose the Startup disk instead of booting right into the default disk. Mount the InstallESD.dmg buried deep in the app hdiutil attach /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg -noverify Step 5 Boot up MacBook with the USB flash drive.

Just for the crazy ones……after Mavericks is downloaded….and again this assumes you external disk is named BootDisk

After this finishes you will now have a bootable copy. Steps 2 - 4 are necessary because if you just clone the Apple USB stick the new USB stick wont be bootable. If you want all to return back to normal and hide the system files run a couple more commands in the Terminal defaults write AppleShowAllFiles FALSE killall Finder How to create the OSX 10.9 Mavericks Bootable Drive just via Terminal Use carbon copy cloner to then clone the Apple USB stick to the new USB stick.