Aug 13, 2012 I had need of this myself (Yes, it was acquired legally) and I realized I should put together a quick tutorial. Sorry for the cutoff at the end. Here is the link for the UniBeast software.
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Creating a bootable USB drive of OS X Yosemite 10.10 if you want to save it on a external drive for future usage or just want to install it on multiple Mac computers. To make OS X Yosemite bootable USB installer drive, there are few requirements. Lets see what are those.
Note: This guide to make installer USB drive is for OS X Yosemite Developer Preview
See also: Dual Boot OS X Yosemite and Mavericks
Make OS X Yosemite Bootable USB
Requirements
- You must have an external USB drive or storage media with capacity of at-least 8GB (Save data from it because we are going to format it).
- OS X Yosemite installer downloaded (You can join OS X Beta program)
Prepare USB drive for OS X Yosemite
Open Disk Utility from 'Applications' > 'Utilities' or press 'cmd+space' keys form keyboard to find 'Disk Utility'.
Plug the external USB drive into Mac (make sure you save your stuff from it). Once you attached the USB drive, it will shown on the left panel of Disk Utility.
Select the drive and then do the following steps to create a single partition that is required to make USB installer drive for OS X Yosemite 10.10.
Click on 'Partition Layout' drop-down menu and select '1 Partition' option from it.
Then enter the Partition information Name: 'osxyosemite', Format: 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)'.
Click the 'Options' button to select the partition scheme, so select 'GUID Partition Table' option and click OK button.
To complete the creating partition process hit the 'Apply' button and then 'Partition' button. This will take some time to format and making USB drive as a 1 partition. Once done, you will notice a new drive name will be displayed on the left side, the name that you given in the partition information. Now close the Disk Utility tool.
Show hidden files
Showing hidden files is required, because there are few hidden files in the OS X Yosemite installer package that you need to unhide first to write them on bootable USB drive.
Open Mac 'Terminal' command line: press cmd+space keys and type Terminal in the spotlight, click the Terminal from search results or just open the Terminal from Applications > Utilities > Terminal.
Type the following two commands one by one:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
Killall Finder
First command is going to show hidden files and the second one is to restart the Finder so we can see the instant effect of first command. Close the Terminal.
Open Applications, here you will see your downloaded OS X Yosemite file 'Install OS X 10.10'. Cmd+click on it to view the menu, select 'Show Package Contents'.
Open 'Contents' > 'SharedSupport' folder and here you will see 'InstallESD.dmg' file, double click to open the file and OS X may starts verifying this file so let the verification process finished.
After that you will see a folder with the following content in it, 'BaseSystem.dmg' is the file that we need and it was hidden, so now you know that why we show the hidden files in above steps.
Open the Disk Utility again from 'Applications' > 'Utilities' > 'Disk Utility' or by using Spotlight search.
Load the 'BaseSystem.dmg' file into the Disk Utility, right-click on the file and choose 'Open With' > 'Disk Utility' option. Dmg-b15 complex. After doing that open the Disk Utility and you will see the file 'BaseSystem.dmg' is loaded in the Disk Utility on the left side.
Restore Disk Image
Now we are going to restore 'BaseSystem.dmg' disk image on the USB drive.
Select your USB partition that we created in previous first steps, then click the Restore tab.
Under Restore tab there are two fields, Source and Destination.
Click and drag the 'BaseSystem.dmg' to Source field and 'osxyosemite' usb drive to Destination filed, see screenshot below to get more idea. When done hit the Restore button and you need to confirm 'Are you sure you want to replace the content on USB drive with the content of disk image' so click the Erase button to confirm, after that you may need to enter the administrator password. Restoring disk image is time taking process so be patient.
Once the restoring disk image process is finished you will see a folder like this. Here, open the 'System' > 'Installation' folders and move the Packages file to trash.
Copy the 'Packages' folder from the folder where the 'BaseSystem.dmg' exist. and paste it into the Installation folder that you just opened in previous step.
Most external optical drives have an eject button built into the front of the drive's case. . When all else fails, click and hold the mouse or trackpad button while restarting your Mac. Use the Eject menu applet located in the Mac's menu bar. If you don't see the Eject menu applet, you can create one using the instructions in. Mac optical drive cleaner.
How to download visual studio on mac. Hide the system files again using this commanddefaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles NO
How to Boot from USB Drive
You must know the system requirements of OS X Yosemite before installing it, If your system to capable to run this OS X version 10.10 then Shutdown your Mac, plug the OS X Yosemite Bootable USB into Mac. Press the power button again to turn it On and then hold the Alt or Option key from keyboard, when you see this screen release the button. Double click on the USB drive to boot from it.
Congratulations! you successfully perform all steps to make bootable USB drive to install OS X Yosemite on more that one Mac computers without worried of downloading it on each computer separately, you will saved lot of bandwidth and time as well. Thanks for reading if you have any problem we are here to help you just write your problem below in comments box.
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Move to your Applications
Updating the OSX Yosemite Installer
Before you begin it is best to use the latest OSX Yosemite installer which is currently at 10.10.3 Build Number 14D136, download it via but don't install, the installer location will override the previous installer, the dialog box that opens after you click download confirms if you wish to download the full installer, which you do.
When the installer is finished downloading it will prompt you to install, just quit as we will be using the installer to build the image. The actual app should be in your Applications folder called Install OS X Yosemite.app
Creating an AutoDMG 10.10 Yosemite Up To Date Image
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Launch AutoDMG
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Drag in the Yosemite installer to the target area. If you can't find it, do a spotlight search -'Install OS X Yosemite.app'
AutoDMG will check for available updates – click the Download button to get them.
AutoDMG downloads any incremental updates.
When it's done, Build the image.
Save to a destination and let the building begin.
View Log
In the event where things don't go so well check the log under the Window menu for the Why?.
All too easy!, you can deploy with DeployStudio or direct to disk with ASR.
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With Apple Software Restore you can image a disk directly from the Terminal:
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Change the source and target to suit.
