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The installer software will take up nearly 5GB of storage space. You can create a bootable USB flash drive with the macOS Sierra installer that’s now available. When I need to tend to a bunch of Macs, it’s much faster to use a bootable drive instead of going to each Mac, launching the App Store, searching for the operating system, downloading it (after entering my Apple ID), and then running the installer.

That’s why I like to make a bootable external drive for the sole purpose of installing the Mac operating system. And if you have multiple Macs, it’s inefficient to download the new OS to each and every Mac. It’s convenient, but sometimes it can take a while for a download to finish. How to create a bootable macOS Sierra installer driveīy Roman Loyola at Senior Editor, Macworld | 1:32 PM PDTĪpple uses its App Store to distribute its software, like new Mac operating systems. Select the drive in Disk Utility and then thePartition Tab.*Quick note from Save Apple Dollars - Older OS X Images can now be downloaded directly from Apple at please right click on the image link and select “save as”.

In Disk Utility, prepare the USB drive to be bootable.

Plugin your USB Drive, for this effort I used a 8gb USB drive, and open Disk Utility.

You will need this file to create the USB drive.

In the Finder window displaying the package contents select the Contents folder, then the SharedSupport folder.

Find the downloaded App package in Finder, right or control click it and select “Show Package Contents”.

How To Create an OS X Lion USB Installation Drive Below you will find the steps to install OS X Lion via a USB drive.

In fact, it is still very easy to create a USB installation disk for OS X Lion.

Starting with OS X Lion, the only way to get new software will be to download and install it through the Mac App store.įortunately, it does not appear that Apple has limited our ability to create our own installation media for OS X installations. No longer would you be able to buy the latest and greatest software from Apple on DVDs or other media. When Apple announced at their World Wide Developers Conference the release of OS X Lion, they shared that they were moving forward with a new way to distribute software to their customers.