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Screenshot above, the process has finished.Ĭreateinstallmedia will have renamed your drive from Untitled to To 30 minutes, depending on how fast your Mac can copy data to theĭestination drive. The procedure can take as little as a couple minutes, or as long as 20 Program’s tasks as they occur: Copying installer files to disk. Textual representation of a progress bar: Erasing Disk: 0%. The Terminal window displays createinstallmedia’s progress as a Return:” If so, type the letter Y and then press Return. If you wish to continue type (Y) then press You may see the message “To continue we need to erase the disk at /Volumes/Untitled. Type your admin-level account password when prompted, and then press Return. Paste theĬopied command into Terminal and press Return. Warning: This step will erase the destination drive or partition, so make sure that it doesn’t contain any valuable data. Launch Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities). Volumes/Untitled -applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia -volume Select the text of the following Terminal command and copy it. Main Applications folder (/Applications). Make sure the El Capitan installer (or at least a copy of it), called Install OS X El Capitan.app, is in its default location in your (The Terminal commands I provide hereĪssume that the drive is named Untitled.

Instructions on how to create such an installer are here: How to make a bootable OS X 10.11 El Capitan installer driveĬonnect to your Mac a properly formatted 8GB (or larger) drive, and rename the drive Untitled. All you need is an 8 GB USB drive and a computer running OS X. You need to use OS X Recovery or a USB drive to re-install El Capitan, which is relatively simple to create. Apple does not sell an optical media version of El Capitan.