- #How to download os x yosemite on a windows machine install#
- #How to download os x yosemite on a windows machine trial#
- #How to download os x yosemite on a windows machine zip#
Notice how it's used in the above command at the end of the first line. In this case the backslashes instead tell the shell to wait for further user input. When you use quotes the shell recognizes everything in the quotes as the argument and doesn't need backslashes. In this case it tells the shell that the space isn't being used to separate arguments but is actually part of the argument. Backslashes, when used without quotes, inform the shell (the command line) to ignore any special aspects of the character that follows it. You got the ">" prompt because of the quotes you don't need to backslashes "\" before the spaces if you use quotes. Volumes/32GB/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia \ -applicationpath "/Volumes/32GB/Install OS X Yosemite.app" -volume /Volumes/16GB Copy it to the larger thumb drive.ĭid you name the thumb drives "16GB" and "32GB"? Those were just example names but they certainly would work. Amazon Drive link to uncompressed Yosemite installer select the checkbox next to the ".app" folder to download it. Lets start from scratch, I don't like that you got errors when unzipping.
#How to download os x yosemite on a windows machine zip#
Recovery doesn't have zip available to it so those part have been removed, and also fixed some formatting issues that appear with Old Reddit. Let me know if it doesn't work and we'll do some troubleshooting. Or you can change the boot disk from Recovery, but I can't remember exactly where that option is in Yosemite Apple has changed up the placement of menu items in later releases. To use it, reboot the iMac while holding down the "option" key, and once prompted select the thumb drive as the boot disk.
#How to download os x yosemite on a windows machine install#
And that's it you should now have a thumb drive that you can use to install Yosemite. Volumes/32GB/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia \ -volume /Volumes/16GB -applicationpath "/Volumes/32GB/Install OS X Yosemite.app"
Sit back and wait, it's going to take a few minutes. Unzip /Volumes/32GB/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.zip I'm also going to assume that you didn't unzip the installer yet. Once you're booted back into Recovery, launch Disk Utility and make a note of what the "mount point" for each thumb drive is if there isn't one then select the partition of the drive and click the "Mount" button.įor the purposes of this I'm going to pretend that "/Volumes/32GB" is the mount point for the 32GB drive and "/Volumes/16GB" for the 16GB drive. Plug both thumb drives into the iMac and boot into Recovery.
#How to download os x yosemite on a windows machine trial#
I'm not a Windows person so I don't know if it can unzip natively, but you can use the trial version of WinZip if not. Once you have the installer copied onto the thumb drive you can unzip it via Windows or Recovery. zip onto the larger of the thumb drives and be prepared to have the smaller one reformatted during the process.