Installing OS X Yosemite Offline via USB stick


Yosemite OS X is the latest version of the Mac operating system that was released on October 16, 2014. The upgrade or installation of OS X Yosemite can be done for free through the App Store. However, the process of upgrading or installation through the App Store is certainly less than ideal for the following conditions:

  1. Upgrade or installation is done on multiple computers
  2. Installing OS X clean install, or install Mac OS X outside the engine (Hackintosh).
Installation via USB Flash Drive is a better way to advance the above conditions with internet access are inadequate considering the OS X installer Yosemite which amounted to 5.17 GB. The following article shows how to load a USB bootable OS X Yosemite as an installer to update or install OS X Yosemite.

Preparation

To create a USB Bootable needed USB drive with a capacity of 8 GB, or can also use a Firewire / Thunderbolt drive or SD-Card.
Installer OS X Yosemite can be obtained through the update process in the App Store, after the update process is completed usually the installer file is automatically deleted from Application folder, to save the installer file press the Option (alt) while clicking options Download:


Click Continue when the confirmation form appears, enter your Apple ID and password when emerging form Sign in download from the App Store and then click Sign in.
The results of downloading the installer OS X Park will be stored in the Application folder as shown below:


Result installer download a file with a filename: Install OS X Yosemite.app, the file that will be used in the production of USB bootable OS X. There are several ways you can do to make the USB bootable OS X, the easiest way is to use an application DiskMaker X ,

DiskMaker X

DiskMaker X is in the form of an AppleScript application that aims to create a bootable installer OS X. The latest version as of this writing is version 4b4 which can be downloaded via the following address: http://diskmakerx.com/downloads/DiskMakerX4b4.dmg
Install DiskMaker X by double click DiskMakerX4b4.dmg downloaded, drag and drop files into folders DiskMaker X 4b4 Application:


Run DiskMaker X applications through the Launcher by clicking the icon DiskMaker X 4b4 or through the Application folder by creating double-click the application DiskMaker X 4b4:


Click Yosemite (10:10), further confirmation of the existence form will appear in the folder OS X installer Application:


Use this copy will be automatically selected if the OS X installer file is located in the Application folder
Use another copy ... is used to select the installer to another location.
Click Use this copy to continue the process. Confirmation form USB drive that will be used will be shown:


Make sure the USB drive is in place, click option An 8 GB USB thumb drive, USB drive further confirm the selection will be displayed:


Select the option USB drive that will be used (if there is more than one USB drive), Click option Choose this disk to continue the process. Warning process of deletion of data on the USB drive will be shown as follows


Click option Erase then create the disk to remove the USB data drive, and then click the option Continue to start the process:



Fill in a form the password when the password is displayed. The process of making a bootable USB will require considerable time to view the process as follows:



Once the process is completed will be shown the following form:


Options Open the Startup Disk Preference is used to perform system options that will be used when the startup process boot. Select Quit to terminate the application DiskMaker X.
Here are the contents of a USB drive that can function as a USB bootable OS X Yosemite:


In addition to using aid application form DiskMaker X, USB bootable OS X can also be created using the command via the Terminal command.

Terminal

Command (command) through Terminal can be used to create a USB bootable if we do not want to use DiskMaker X (or other applications) or when DiskMaker X can not be installed on a Mac with a variety of reasons.
Here are the steps that can be done to make the USB bootable OS X via command in Terminal:

Download OS X installer Yosemite;
Make sure the USB drive has been formatted using OS X Extended (Journaled). Use Disk Utility to format the USB drive. Name the USB drive, the following example uses the name: Yosemite


Run terminal via Spotlight or double-click the icon Terminal in the folder Applications / Utilities.
Type the following command (or copy and paste) in Terminal (replace Yosemite with a name that matches the name of the USB drive), and then press Enter.
sudo / Applications / Install \ OS \ X \ Yosemite.app / Contents / Resources / createinstallmedia --volume / Volumes / Yosemite --applicationpath / Applications / Install \ OS \ X \ Yosemite.app --nointeraction
Fill in the password when prompted, and then press Enter.


Wait until the process is completed characterized by Done on the command line before returning to the prompt. The process of making USB bootable this will take approximately 30 minutes.

Upgrade or installation of OS X Yosemite can be done in a way to boot a Mac or PC using a USB bootable that have been made ​​by holding down the Option key when doing boot the computer.

By making a USB bootable OS X Park, the upgrade or installation of OS X Yosemite can be done more easily. The author himself prefers to use DiskMaker X to create a USB bootable OS X Park will be used in the upgrade process on multiple machines Mac there.

USB bootable OS X Park can also be used as a backup system operation for recovery if an operating system that has been installed has failed.

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