(A beta version, 1.7b1, of Lion DiskMaker allows you to use a partition on a multi-volume drive without affecting the other partitions.)Ĭlick Erase Then Create The Disk to proceed. But that warning also notes that if you’ve chosen a partition of a drive, the process will also erase all other partitions on that drive, as Lion DiskMaker will repartition the drive into a single volume. After doing so, you also see a big, scary warning that this procedure will of course erase the contents of the chosen volume. But I can’t talk about it right now.Choose Create A Boot Disk, and you’re prompted to choose a volume: a USB thumb drive, an external hard drive, or a partition on another drive. The way Lion DiskMaker works now requires to have the full OS X Mavericks Install app.Īccording that there is no major bug in this beta, the next one will concentrate on cleaning the code, localization and… oh, something very important.
– Be aware that single DMG support (without the app) won’t be there for Mavericks, and that’s sealed. – Removed all references to DVD support in LDM. So LDM will work with the three major OS released since 2011! – 10.7 and 10.8 are now both officially supported. – Lion DiskMaker will now detect if a connected disk was already built using Lion DiskMaker, and therefore propose to replace it with the new OS you chose, avoiding to choose the disk manually. Avoid though to put it in disks/folders with exotic names (especially, using quotation marks or quotes may make Lion DiskMaker bite you. – You don’t have to put the Install OS X Mavericks app in /Applications anymore.
I’m working on it to make it a bit smarter 🙂 However this is quite messed up as it does not take into account the version of OS X you will use to build the disk later. Newer than the one you are running, in fact. – It will also warn you if a newer version of OS X is available.
– LDM will warn you at startup if a new version is available. This is true only for Mavericks, 10.7 and 10.8 are not affected. I would have prefered to stay in a user domain, but it was not possible to get some files from the OS directly using the old method and the process risked to be less reliable. This implies that you have to authentify once as an admin account to be able to build a Mavericks disk, as this tool requires root access. The first one, and more prevalent, is that LDM now uses the Apple provided tool to build the disk for Mavericks. And it seems… quite good! However, there are some quite big changes compared to beta 2.
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