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Check the Mac Rumors forums before doing this. I heard that this approach doesn't work anymore because Apple changed some dependencies.

• uxp 13y ago
  I think you might be correct. Apple used to distribute the Lion Recovery app, which basically copied the InstallESD.dmg to a USB stick, but it no longer works with Mountain Lion. Running this command, however, uses a hidden executable inside the installer application to write itself to a USB stick. sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/USBSTICK --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app --nointeraction NOTE: This uses sudo because it needs permission to write to the device. It also has the potential of destroying external drives, internal drives and boot drives. Please change the value for the 'volume' flag to point to the mounted path of the USB stick or SD card you wish to use as the bootable install disk. It will overwrite all the data on that disk. I am not responsible for any data loss using this command. Please double check all paths, all commands and all flags before running this.
  • derefr 13y ago
    What happens when you do that without the --nointeraction flag? Presumably, it explains what it's going to do, and prompts for elevation?
    • jychang 13y ago
      Was the previous comment edited? There's no --nointeraction flag there.
      • nwh 13y ago
        There is, you need to scroll horizontally- there's no text wrapping on <pre> lines.