#MAC OS X STARTUP DISK INSTALL#

#MAC OS X STARTUP DISK INSTALL#

Since it's just a drag-and-drop install anyway, you can just drag-and-drop it into the Applications folder and it should work (as long as you can establish a network connection). It worked for me (no need to change the date and boot off line from external drive). Note that some application in fact do not need to work this way. In the OS X Utilities, the Reinstall OS X option, installs the most upgraded and compatible OS for your MAC model. So what you should do is mount the disk image after it is created (don't bother adding any applications), and use Pacifist to install all the necessary components of the application you want to use (Pacifist is available at It seems that maybe the BootCD application is trying to make as stripped down a system as possible, so it omits things that might be needed for even the Terminal. You'll actually need all of the resources.

This can be invoked by holding Option + Command + R. Also, most systems shipped after 2010 support Internet Recovery. The one thing I've learned about BootCD is that it copies only the application itself. If your system runs OS X 10.7 or later, you can also boot directly to the recovery drive by holding Command + R on startup. It seems that most people are having the application failures kind of problem. Step 4: Double-click or press the Return key to boot your Mac from the volume you just selected. Step 3: Highlight the volume you want to use by using your mouse or trackpad, or left and right arrow keys. Dac9779: Does the boot CD actually start up into a Finder and work but the application you are trying to run does not, or is it that you can't even get into a functional Finder? Startup Manager will scan connected drives and will present drive icons of any volumes it finds, as shown below.

Mac os x startup disk