But once it's done, the user will NEVER experience the hangs, unsuccessful installs, and so forth that so many write about here. Yes, it's more work to "set up the master drive". This leaves "ID space #1" ready and waiting for the creation or migration of the actual user account. Once "cloned over", just log into the second dummy account and then delete the first one. Yes, correct about the account ID#, and the workaround you posted is the best way to avoid this.Īctually, one could set up the "master volume" with TWO dummy accounts. IMO it seems like a long way around just to avoid making a USB installer and using that." Then you could successfully migrate in the 501 account from the other Mac. "There is a work around where you could make a second account on the new Mac which would then be userID 502, then from inside that account delete the 501 account. Just put it on the target computer, then use Migration Assistant to "bring over" pre-existing accounts, apps, and data from and old drive or computer.Īnd no - ABSOLUTELY NONE - glitches or hangs when trying to run the "official" Apple installer any more! No, it's not "100% virgin", in that it's not a copy of El Capitan that has "never been booted".īut except for the "temp account" that gets you to the finder, nothing else has been "touched" or "set up" on it. When done, you have a USB flash drive that can "boot itself to the finder", and clone itself to any computer that can boot El Capitan, recovery partition and all. Set up CCC so that it clones the recovery partition, as well. Now, use CCC to clone the contents of the hard drive to the flash drive.
#Diskmaker x 7 high sierra install#
Now you have a tool so that the new install can "replicate itself" to OTHER drives. Next, put CarbonCop圜loner onto the drive.
This will eliminate almost a gigabyte of wasted space. Now, put Monolingual onto the drive, and "strip out" all unnecessary languages. Politely decline any kind of registration, etc.Īll you want is to be able to get to the finder.
#Diskmaker x 7 high sierra password#
Let the OS "introduce itself", but carefully create a "dummy account" - just a username and password and NOTHING ELSE. Let the installer put a fresh copy of the OS onto the drive. Now, launch the El Capitan installer and "aim it" at the drive. I used an ancient firewire drive with a 40-pin IDE drive inside.Ĭonnect the drive to a good Mac and re-initialize it with Disk Utility. Here's "a better way" to create a "universal" El Capitan USB flash drive.Ĭan be any capacity, new or old, USB, Firewire, doesn't make a difference.
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