What do you think about the method of creating a bootable USB flash drive? Sound off with your thoughts and opinions down below. In future tutorials I will show you different methods for installing OS X El Capitan on your Mac, including via Virtual Machine and on a separate partition, using this bootable drive. To create a bootable USB fo Mac OS X El Capitan you need to be able to convert the InstallMacOSX.pkg to the Install OS X El Capitan.app, this can only be done on macs that are capable or running El Capitan, this includes macs that have been upgraded to later OSs. Since DiskMakerX doesn’t yet have an El Capitan option, it will name it Yosemite. You may choose to rename the name of the drive to El Capitan instead of Yosemite. You can now eject your USB key and keep it handy for future usage. To create a bootable Mac drive you need any disk with Mac OS X 10.11.0 El Capitan or newer (10.12 Sierra, 10.13 High Sierra, 10.14 Mojave, 10.15 Catalina) either running as your main system, or just being installed on a drive that's connected to your Mac at the moment. Step 12: Once the process is completed, click Quit Ideally, download the installer, but dont use it. Step 11: Enter your administrator password when requested First, you need the OS X or macOS installer on your Mac. Step 8: Select your USB flash drive and click Choose this disk Step 6: In the Applications folder, select Install OS X 10.11 and click Choose Step 4: Click Yosemite (10.10) since there is no option available for El Capitan currently

Step 2: Download and install the latest version of DiskMakerX Step 1: Connect the flash drive to your Mac The drive creation take about 30 minutes total, but your mileage may vary. Ensure that there’s nothing on the drive that you wish to keep, as this process will completely erase the drive including any volumes. Note: your USB flash drive must be at least 8GB in size.

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