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These advanced steps are primarily for system administrators and others who are familiar with the command line. You don't need a bootable installer to upgrade macOS or reinstall macOS, but it can be useful when you want to install on multiple computers without downloading the installer each time.
What you need to create a bootable installer
- A USB flash drive or other secondary volume formatted as Mac OS Extended, with at least 14GB of available storage
- A downloaded installer for macOS Big Sur, Catalina, Mojave, High Sierra, or El Capitan
Download macOS
- Download: macOS Big Sur, macOS Catalina, macOS Mojave, or macOS High Sierra
These download to your Applications folder as an app named Install macOS [version name]. If the installer opens after downloading, quit it without continuing installation. To get the correct installer, download from a Mac that is using macOS Sierra 10.12.5 or later, or El Capitan 10.11.6. Enterprise administrators, please download from Apple, not a locally hosted software-update server. - Download: OS X El Capitan
This downloads as a disk image named InstallMacOSX.dmg. On a Mac that is compatible with El Capitan, open the disk image and run the installer within, named InstallMacOSX.pkg. It installs an app named Install OS X El Capitan into your Applications folder. You will create the bootable installer from this app, not from the disk image or .pkg installer.
Use the 'createinstallmedia' command in Terminal
- Connect the USB flash drive or other volume that you're using for the bootable installer.
- Open Terminal, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder.
- Type or paste one of the following commands in Terminal. These assume that the installer is in your Applications folder, and MyVolume is the name of the USB flash drive or other volume you're using. If it has a different name, replace
MyVolume
in these commands with the name of your volume.
Big Sur:*
Catalina:*
Mojave:*
High Sierra:*
El Capitan:
* If your Mac is using macOS Sierra or earlier, include the
--applicationpath
argument and installer path, similar to the way this is done in the command for El Capitan.After typing the command:
- Press Return to enter the command.
- When prompted, type your administrator password and press Return again. Terminal doesn't show any characters as you type your password.
- When prompted, type
Y
to confirm that you want to erase the volume, then press Return. Terminal shows the progress as the volume is erased. - After the volume is erased, you may see an alert that Terminal would like to access files on a removable volume. Click OK to allow the copy to proceed.
- When Terminal says that it's done, the volume will have the same name as the installer you downloaded, such as Install macOS Big Sur. You can now quit Terminal and eject the volume.
Use the bootable installer
Determine whether you're using a Mac with Apple silicon, then follow the appropriate steps:
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- Plug the bootable installer into a Mac that is connected to the internet and compatible with the version of macOS you're installing.
- Turn on your Mac and continue to hold the power button until you see the startup options window, which shows your bootable volumes.
- Select the volume containing the bootable installer, then click Continue.
- When the macOS installer opens, follow the onscreen instructions.
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- Plug the bootable installer into a Mac that is connected to the internet and compatible with the version of macOS you're installing.
- Press and hold the Option (Alt) ⌥ key immediately after turning on or restarting your Mac.
- Release the Option key when you see a dark screen showing your bootable volumes.
- Select the volume containing the bootable installer. Then click the up arrow or press Return.
If you can't start up from the bootable installer, make sure that the External Boot setting in Startup Security Utility is set to allow booting from external media. - Choose your language, if prompted.
- Select Install macOS (or Install OS X) from the Utilities window, then click Continue and follow the onscreen instructions.
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A bootable installer doesn't download macOS from the internet, but it does require an internet connection to get firmware and other information specific to the Mac model.
For information about the
createinstallmedia
command and the arguments you can use with it, make sure that the macOS installer is in your Applications folder, then enter the appropriate path in Terminal:Apple can be crafty. Just ask Google. But I’m not here to write about corporation-on-corporation smackdowns. Rather, I’m referring to a Mac OS X trick that pairs FileVault 2 with iCloud’s Find My Mac service to trap a thief. Specifically, OS X 10.7.2 (Lion) offers an option to lure in ne’er-do-wells by providing what seems like a reasonable path to start up a Mac…but then phones home.
As I explained in our complete guide to FileVault 2, FileVault 2 lets Lion users encrypt their entire startup drive. When a Mac with FileVault enabled starts up or restarts, a special login screen appears; only an authorized user account can get past this screen. Enter such an account’s name and password, and the encrypted key is unlocked and the Mac restarts from the boot drive.
Behind the scenes, Apple is taking advantage of Recovery HD, an invisible partition of your startup drive (created as part of the Lion installation process) that’s used for both emergency and routine activities. FileVault 2 encrypts only the main partition of a Lion disk, using the unencrypted Recovery HD partition to handle the aforementioned entry screen.
New features with Lion 10.7.2
My original FileVault article was researched and written using Mac OS X 10.7.1. Soon after the article was published, Apple released version OS X 10.7.2, which includes some significant changes to FileVault, as well as some nifty interactions with the new Find My Mac feature. One of these changes is a new Guest User option on the FileVault entry screen. This option appears only when you’ve previously booted your Mac under OS X 10.7.2 and logged into iCloud (in the iCloud pane of System Preferences).
Before I proceed, it’s useful to understand what’s going on behind the scenes: During normal use, Lion copies certain settings to Recovery HD, such as information about, and password validations for, FileVault-authorized accounts, as well as the passwords for Wi-Fi networks to which you’ve connected and opted to save the password. (The reason for storing Wi-Fi passwords is that doing so makes it easier to use Lion Recovery to reinstall Lion, or to use the standard Get Help Online mode, since both require an Internet connection.) But in OS X 10.7.2, Lion also stores on Recovery HD your credentials for iCloud and the status (enabled or disabled) of the Find My Mac feature.
Put these things together, and it means that whenever someone is using your Mac via the Guest User feature, your Mac can connect to the Internet, log in invisibly to your iCloud account, and report your location via Find My Mac. This is where I believe Apple is being crafty on our behalf: If someone steals your FileVault-protected Mac and boots it up, they won’t be able to access any user accounts, so they’ll be tempted to boot into the Guest User account to see if they can access data, or perhaps just to try to erase the drive. As soon as they connect to a Wi-Fi network (which might even happen automatically—for example, if you previously used an AT&T/Starbucks access point, your Mac can automatically connect the next time you’re in range of a Starbucks), the location of the computer is revealed, iCloud can send you an email alert, and you can then send a remote message, a lock command, or even a wipe command using Find My Mac.
(Of course, this is also useful if a good samaritan finds your lost MacBook: They’ll presumably try to start it up to see if they can find any information that would help them contact you. In the background, your Mac is doing the work for them.)
Extra protection
Even if your Mac is already booted up, you get some protection here. For starters, when you enable FileVault, it automatically enables the Require Password After Sleep Or Screen Saver Begins option in the Security & Privacy of System Preferences, and it disables automatic login. (In fact, you can’t even enable automatic login if FileVault is on.) This means anyone who procures your Mac won’t be able to use it, and will likely try to reboot it…leading them right into the aforementioned startup sequence and the Guest User trap, if you will.
But I also recommend enabling, in that same preferences screen, Require An Administrator Password To Access System Preferences With Lock Icons. This ensures that anyone who happens across your awake-and-unlocked Mac won’t be able to change system-level settings unless they have a valid administrator account.
You should also enable the Show A Message When The Screen Is Locked option, and then include your contact information in the text box. This text appears not just on the lock and login screens, but also in the initial FileVault login screen, giving good samaritans and guilty-conscience thieves a way to contact you. Finally, you should make sure the Disable Restarting To Safari When Screen Is Locked option is disabled—enabling this option prevents the Guest User option from appearing at startup.
Find My Mac’s options
If you ever lose your Mac, or if it’s ever stolen, immediately log in to Find My Mac (on the iCloud website or via the Find My iPhone iOS app). Whether or not your Mac can be found immediately, you can choose any of the Find My Mac options: Play Sound or Send Message, Remote Lock, or Remote Wipe. If your Mac has been located, the action will occur immediately. If it can’t be found, the action will occur as soon as your Mac next connects to the Internet.
Tip: If your Mac’s location can’t be found immediately, tap the blue info [i] button next to your Mac in the devices list, and then slide the Email When Found button to On. With this setting enabled, iCloud will email you, at your iCloud email address, as soon as your Mac connects to the Internet. You can then log in to Find My Mac to see the computer’s location.
The Play Sound or Send Message option is mainly useful if you know you left your Mac in a trusted environment and you want to alert a friendly soul. In situations where you don’t know who has your Mac, or what access they have to it, the Remote Lock option is a better choice, as it reboots the computer as soon as the command is received, requiring a six-digit (if you issued the command from iCloud.com) or four-digit (if you used the iOS app) passcode for access. Space courier mac os. Apple continues to play tricks on absconders here: When the Mac restarts after a Remote Lock with FileVault 2 enabled, the Guest User option is disabled, but the computer still automatically connects to any known Wi-Fi networks and sends location information!
The Remote Wipe command is, of course, a last resort, as it instantly destroys the boot drive’s contents by erasing the encrypted volume’s key, rendering the drive’s contents unusable. However--and this is an important note—once you’ve used the Remote Lock option, the Remote Wipe action is no longer available. So choose wisely.
As soon as the computer obtains network access and the Recovery HD system talks to iCloud, your computer is roughly located. The location, determined by nearby Wi-Fi networks, is displayed on Find My Mac, and any action you took is immediately carried out. Once you have the location in hand, if it’s not someplace you know to be friendly, your next step should likely be a visit to a police station, especially if you suspect the computer is in the hands of a putative blackheart.
Security in mind
I kid throughout this article about Apple’s craftiness, because FileVault’s Guest User option is absolutely and decisively designed to allow your computer to report its location to iCloud’s Find My Mac servers—and, thus, to you—without the person operating the laptop being any the wiser.
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But FileVault’s Guest User feature is also a way to let someone else use your computer for basic Web browsing without giving them an account—or, thus, access to anything on your computer. In fact, FileVault disables the normal Guest option, found in the Users & Groups pane of System Preferences, that would allow a guest to use a temporary account with access to applications and to public areas of your drive. With Fast User Switching enabled, that option even lets you stay logged in to your normal account (or accounts). FileVault’s Guest User is thus significantly more secure, as it makes your boot drive completely inaccessible and gives the guest user access only to Safari.
But for most people, the major benefits here involve keeping your data secure and helping you find a lost or stolen computer. Apple doesn’t want to advertise its Find My Mac tracking as a feature, as it may lose some of its effect if thieves are too aware. But I don’t think most people stealing computers are also dedicated readers of marketing materials or Macworld. (Prove me wrong, people.) Forearmed is forewarned, and your machine, absconded with, may be more recoverable than we thought.
[Senior contributor Glenn Fleishman thinks horrible thoughts about those who would steal his data. He is the author of Take Control of Your 802.11n AirPort Network, recently updated for Lion.]