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MacOs Sierra Installation Drive

If you are having problems to create an installation media for MacOs Sierra here is the solution

  • First you need to download installation, if you have DMG File, run the PKG in DMG Image.
  • This will copy your installation to your /Applications/ folder.
  1. This command will fix the installation to make your USB Drive
sudo plutil -replace CFBundleShortVersionString -string "12.6.03"  /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sierra.app/Contents/Info.plist
  1. List your volumes to find your Drive. It might be something like "NO NAME" or something else.
ls /Volumes/
  1. Use your drive path in this command below to create your drive. This process formats the drive.
sudo  /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/NO\ NAME --applicationpath  /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sierra.app

If you are having issues with the drive, try using Disk Utility to format as "MacOs Journaled" then try step 3 again.

sudo  <Install Package Path>.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/<DRIVE_NAME> --applicationpath  <Install Package Path>.app

If you have space character in anywhere try placing \ character before the space to escape it.

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