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So where can I go to download an ISO? I'd like to burn a bootable DVD, and load it up as a non-networked offline install. Is such a thing even possible?

pat2man 13y ago
There are a few tools that will do this for you, basically copying the hidden restore partition onto a USB stick. Bootable DVD though? Really?
- barake 13y ago
  As of Mountain Lion, the recovery partition doesn't contain the full OS. Just enough to bootstrap and download the whole thing from Apple. They also do not sell the update on physical media (thumb drives, DVDs, etc.) in store.
- qwerty_asdf 13y ago
  > Bootable DVD though? Really? In light of recent events involving the NSA and leaked documents, yes. A bootable DVD. Really. For some heavy-duty discussion on the withertos and wherefores, take a quick gander at a recent thread, over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6532642 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6532642 Remember that part where GCHQ stormed the offices of The Guardian, and took an angle grinder to one of their laptops? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/20/nsa-snowden-files-drives-destroyed-london http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/20/nsa-snowden-fil...
  - wtallis 13y ago
    Still, why not just use a USB drive? DVDs are painfully slow compared to flash drives.
  - falcolas 13y ago
    In light of the recent NSA revelations, I'd want to use Linux, not Mac, for an ephemeral offline OS. Of course, Schneider uses Windows, so to each his own.
    - nwh 13y ago
      Offline means nothing in a world where NSA slides reference jumping airgaps with hardware backdoors.
      - gohrt 13y ago
        How exactly will their hardware backdoor transmit its secrets back to the NSA? By sneaking out your apartment backdoor?
        nwh 13y ago
        If you'd read any of the background on it rather than down voting me, you'd know!
    - qwerty_asdf 13y ago
      And I definitely agree with you on that. Just sayin'...
LX-350 13y ago
Lion DiskMaker has a beta for creating a Mavericks GM disk. It should be updated soon to support the release. You just download the installer from the App Store and run Lion DiskMaker. http://liondiskmaker.com/ http://liondiskmaker.com/
- nearengine 13y ago
  The installer itself can do this: sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia –volume /Volumes/WHATEVER_DISK –applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app –nointeraction
  - kstrauser 13y ago
    I used: sudo "/Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia" --volume /Volumes/Mavericks/ --applicationpath "/Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app" Note the double hyphens before the keywords. The quotes just make it easier to read.
    - nearengine 13y ago
      Good catch! I think it tried to format my double hyphens as a dash. Should've thrown it in a code tag.
Groxx 13y ago
Probably the same way as I've done with Mountain Lion, but with a dual-layer DVD instead: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/apple-in-the-enterprise/how-to-create-a-bootable-usb-to-install-os-x/ http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/apple-in-the-enterprise/how... (not that exact link, but the same basic thing is all over the internet) If you want to do this for an older OS version you've purchased, you can option-click on the Purchases tab-button-thing in the App Store, and it'll show everything. (totally undiscoverable, but at least it exists) Works great, much faster installs than a disk.
tvon 13y ago
You can't download an ISO, you'll need a working OSX install to download it from the App Store. From there I believe you can burn an install DVD and AFAIK you've always been able to do a non-networked install. edit: Un-tested by me, but I've heard this is how you do it: http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=18081307&postcount=3 http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=18081307&postcoun...
- nearengine 13y ago
  That is the method I used on an 8GB flash drive, worked great.
masklinn 13y ago
Download the installer from MAS, it's a .app within which you'll find a `createinstallmedia` binary. As its name indicates, that binary can be used to create a bootable install media. Not sure it can create a DVD, but it can create a bootable USB key.

pat2man 13y ago

There are a few tools that will do this for you, basically copying the hidden restore partition onto a USB stick. Bootable DVD though? Really?

barake 13y ago
As of Mountain Lion, the recovery partition doesn't contain the full OS. Just enough to bootstrap and download the whole thing from Apple. They also do not sell the update on physical media (thumb drives, DVDs, etc.) in store.
qwerty_asdf 13y ago
> Bootable DVD though? Really? In light of recent events involving the NSA and leaked documents, yes. A bootable DVD. Really. For some heavy-duty discussion on the withertos and wherefores, take a quick gander at a recent thread, over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6532642 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6532642 Remember that part where GCHQ stormed the offices of The Guardian, and took an angle grinder to one of their laptops? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/20/nsa-snowden-files-drives-destroyed-london http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/20/nsa-snowden-fil...
- wtallis 13y ago
  Still, why not just use a USB drive? DVDs are painfully slow compared to flash drives.
- falcolas 13y ago
  In light of the recent NSA revelations, I'd want to use Linux, not Mac, for an ephemeral offline OS. Of course, Schneider uses Windows, so to each his own.
  - nwh 13y ago
    Offline means nothing in a world where NSA slides reference jumping airgaps with hardware backdoors.
    - gohrt 13y ago
      How exactly will their hardware backdoor transmit its secrets back to the NSA? By sneaking out your apartment backdoor?
      - nwh 13y ago
        If you'd read any of the background on it rather than down voting me, you'd know!
  - qwerty_asdf 13y ago
    And I definitely agree with you on that. Just sayin'...

LX-350 13y ago

Lion DiskMaker has a beta for creating a Mavericks GM disk. It should be updated soon to support the release. You just download the installer from the App Store and run Lion DiskMaker. http://liondiskmaker.com/ http://liondiskmaker.com/

nearengine 13y ago
The installer itself can do this: sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia –volume /Volumes/WHATEVER_DISK –applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app –nointeraction
- kstrauser 13y ago
  I used: sudo "/Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia" --volume /Volumes/Mavericks/ --applicationpath "/Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app" Note the double hyphens before the keywords. The quotes just make it easier to read.
  - nearengine 13y ago
    Good catch! I think it tried to format my double hyphens as a dash. Should've thrown it in a code tag.

Groxx 13y ago

Probably the same way as I've done with Mountain Lion, but with a dual-layer DVD instead: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/apple-in-the-enterprise/how-to-create-a-bootable-usb-to-install-os-x/ http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/apple-in-the-enterprise/how... (not that exact link, but the same basic thing is all over the internet) If you want to do this for an older OS version you've purchased, you can option-click on the Purchases tab-button-thing in the App Store, and it'll show everything. (totally undiscoverable, but at least it exists) Works great, much faster installs than a disk.

tvon 13y ago

You can't download an ISO, you'll need a working OSX install to download it from the App Store. From there I believe you can burn an install DVD and AFAIK you've always been able to do a non-networked install. edit: Un-tested by me, but I've heard this is how you do it: http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=18081307&postcount=3 http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=18081307&postcoun...

nearengine 13y ago
That is the method I used on an 8GB flash drive, worked great.

masklinn 13y ago

Download the installer from MAS, it's a .app within which you'll find a `createinstallmedia` binary. As its name indicates, that binary can be used to create a bootable install media. Not sure it can create a DVD, but it can create a bootable USB key.