Click on the Options button and, in the dialog that opens, select the Master Boot Record partition scheme and click OK. Using the ancient art of inserting a CD/DVD installer, booting, installing, You can partition the disk as a single partition if desired. This technqiue is hundreds of time faster, better, more up-to-date than run NetRestore, clone from your ASR disc image Boot off a OS X mac (by firewire drive, target disk mode etc) Then all you need to do in the future to restore is as follows: The most useful part of your answer was There is no command in macOS to format a partition to use a linux file system. Carbon Copy Cloner your beautiful OS X to an ASR compatible Disc image Since I have access to a machine running Linux (a Chromebook with Gallium OS), rather than create a bootable USB drive for my Mac, I was able to use that. Boot, create user, test, update (Apple CDs are out of date anyway)ģ. Onto a clean firewire drive partition (need a firewire bootable mac)Ģ.
#MAC OS MAKE ISO OF PARTITION BOOTABLE INSTALL#
Install OS X (with full options, BSD, your chosen Languages etc) This tutorial guides you to create a bootable partition manager to USB with EaseUS Partition Master and flexibly manage partitions without booting up Windows.
#MAC OS MAKE ISO OF PARTITION BOOTABLE MAC OS X#
Mac OS X ASR disc image using a firewire drive, carbon copyġ. Rather than making CD copies, why not create a clean virgin (and updated) When I tried it that way I invariably received an error message that the media was not writable.
I would expect this method to also create bootable DVDs but have not yet tried it.īTW, you might intuitively think that opening Disk Utility and executing steps 4 - 6 and inserting a CD would provide the same results but this seems to not be the case.
When the Finder dialog appears, select "Open other application" for the desired action.Insert a blank CD into a supported burner.Now that Disk Copy is merged into Disk Utility, this seems to work reliably if you have an existing ISO image: I made a couple of coasters before trying this particular approach. Change the size of the partition you wish to use by dragging the resize controls. Click the Add partition button it looks like a plus (+) symbol. This is simple - but I haven't seen it described quite this way before. You will be prompted to either add an APFS volume or a Partition.