/macos-iso-creator

Bash Utility to create macOS/OSX bootable ISOs from .app installers

Primary LanguageShell

⚠️ No longer maintained

Please use an alternative like https://github.com/ninxsoft/Mist

macOS (OS X) ISO Creator

Create bootable ISO images of macOS or .app installers.

Support for the following OS

  • 10.9
  • 10.10
  • 10.11
  • 10.12
  • 10.13
  • 10.15
  • 11 (untested)
  • 12 (untested)
  • 13 (untested)

Options

Optional Flags:
    [-h|--help]
        Display this dialog

Required Flags: [-s|--source] PATH Specifiy the absolute path to source. [inspect|create] Choose an action.

## Examples ##
1. Create an installer from OS X Mavericks:

`./macos-iso-creator -s "/Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app" create`

Output:

Starting Creation process for /Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app Working out of /tmp/creator.sh-1510187298... /dev/disk3 Apple_partition_scheme /dev/disk3s1 Apple_partition_map /dev/disk3s2 Apple_HFS /private/tmp/creator.sh-1510187298/install_app ............................................................................................................................................................... created: /tmp/creator.sh-1510187298/Mavericks.cdr.dmg /dev/disk5 Apple_partition_scheme /dev/disk5s1 Apple_partition_map /dev/disk5s2 Apple_HFS /private/tmp/creator.sh-1510187298/install_build Validating target...done Validating source...done Retrieving scan information...done Validating sizes...done Restoring ....10....20....30....40....50....60....70....80....90....100 Remounting target volume...done "disk3" unmounted. "disk3" ejected. "disk5" unmounted. "disk5" ejected. Reading Driver Descriptor Map (DDM : 0)… Reading Apple (Apple_partition_map : 1)… Reading disk image (Apple_HFS : 2)… ............................................................................................................................................................... Elapsed Time: 34.909s Speed: 209.6Mbytes/sec Savings: 0.0% created: /tmp/creator.sh-1510187298/Mavericks.iso.cdr Your ISO is ready for deployment at /tmp/creator.sh-1510187298/Mavericks.iso