{"repo":"BITespresso/createinstalliso","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/BITespresso/createinstalliso","clone":"git clone https://github.com/BITespresso/createinstalliso.git","description":"Creates a bootable ISO image from a macOS installer application. This image can then be used to install macOS on a physical or virtual machine.","language":"Shell","stars":165,"topics":["bootable","macos","osx","installer","createinstallmedia","bash","script","virtual-machine","vmware","mavericks"],"license":"GPL-3.0","category":"cli-tools","readme_excerpt":"createinstalliso Creates a bootable ISO image from a macOS installer application. This image can then be used to install macOS on a physical or virtual machine. Table of Contents - Introduction - Requirements - Compatibility - Installation - Usage - Command line arguments - Example - Troubleshooting - Alert during macOS installation - References - Installer application types - Required external commands - Exit status and messages - License Introduction If you have ever needed to install macOS on a new computer, you have probably discovered the ability to create a bootable USB flash drive or other volume by using the createinstallmedia command included in the downloaded macOS installer: Create a bootable installer. In case you need a bootable ISO image instead, you can find a lot of shell scripts in forums that create such an ISO image for certain macOS versions. However, they are often only written for a single macOS version and cannot adapt to the specific macOS version contained in the installer. The purpose of this program createinstalliso is to create a bootable ISO image from a downloaded full macOS installer. In addition, the program should: Automatically adapt the strategy used to create the ISO image to the installer application type, thereby supporting a wide range of macOS versions (see: Compatibility). Look and feel like Apple's createinstallmedia command (e.g. handling of command line arguments, wording for error and progress messages, status codes used when exiti","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/BITespresso","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/BITespresso/createinstalliso/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}