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.
