Yup ! 100% success with DiskMaker X 5 on OS 10.7 and later. I could also make the process much faster as we return to the block-copy way-of-life. MUCH more reliable.Īnd how is the process reliable on every OS since 10.7? Here are the facts:
DISKMAKER X 5 THE CAPITAN INSTALL
I will not dare to say that DiskMaker X 5 is a complete rewrite of DiskMaker X: I’m really too lazy for that ? However, by eliminating pre-OS X 10.9 from the equation, I could rely only on createinstallmedia to build the install disks for OS X 10.11, 10.10 or 10.9. And I was also a bit demotivated, maybe (4 years on the same product may seem a bit annoying for someone like me who loves jumping from one project to another). And this made my work much more difficult.Īdd to this that the language I use (AppleScript) is not always the easiest one to deal with, and… well, it made thing very difficult to manage internally. So the first version of Lion DiskMaker just had to find the Install OS X app, then block-copy the DMG on a physical drive, and everything was done.īut with Mavericks, things became much more convoluted, with different OS relying on different tools, especially a new one: the createinstallmedia command. It made building a boot disk easier (sort of), but it was not backward-compatible with previous OSes.
DISKMAKER X 5 THE CAPITAN MANUAL
Skip them if you feel overhelmed ? )Īt the beginning of DiskMaker X, things were pretty easy : I was relying on the hdiutil tool, which uses the DiskImages framework to manipulate disk images (as it says in its manual page). (WARNING: fairly technical and annoying things below. However, it’s interesting to understand why things were harder this time. I hardly had enough time to fix them, I’ve been quite busy on other things, and, well… Not a good year, not a good release. Though I spent quite a lot of time on DiskMaker X these last years, version 4 was far from being excellent. And this year will not be very different.
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It’s been like a little song coming back every year now for 5 years… A new version of OS X is released, and with this version, comes a new release of DiskMaker X ( né Lion DiskMaker).