I have been contacted by a user who pointed out that the link to this blog in my YouTube video:

How To Make A Apple Mac OS X Yosemite Installation Boot DVD

was no longer working.

I've deleted the original link and replaced it with a fully working link to this link.

Yosemite CD Terminal Commands 

If you find any further faults, please report them to me and I'll be happy to fix them ASAP.

Many thanks for your continued support.

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fixed1t Apple Mac Support Renamed To Apple Mac Support Fixes

fixed1t Apple Mac Support Renamed To Apple Mac Support Fixes

Hi, as you know I've been publishing 'Working' Mac Support Fixes and associated 'How I Do It' Youtube videos for some years, but realised that having fixed1t at the start of the title reduced Blog traffic and views.

Therefore, I've renamed the Blog to:

Apple Mac Support Fixes 

Please delete your previous fixed1t Mac Support Bookmark and updated your bookmarks to this page.  I've also taken the opportunity to embed some links in some of my youtube videos, as a banner note in the top right hand corner, to take you to a playlist of fixed1t videos on the related topic, so you won't have to search around for the next videos.  Please try it out by selecting one of my recent Apple Mac Yosemite videos and let me know if this works. by leaving a note on this post, thanks.




I've also decided this blog shouldn't only be about the fixes I've already created, but should be an active tool for others to post items on, so if you find an Apple Mac Support problem that you'd like me to investigate and try and find a fix for, just post a question on this Blog and I'll try and take a look, if I solve it I'll post the solution.

Thanks for your continued support.

Malcolm (aka fixed1t)

Clean Installing OS X Yosemite On An External Hard Disk

Don't risk installing a Yosemite over a working system install it on an external drive for testing first, thats what I do.

Yosemite Google Chrome Bookmarks Recovery

If you have installed Yosemite and accidentally deleted your Google Chrome Bookmarks this is a method I worked out to recover mine.

How To Make A Mac OS X Yosemite Installation Boot DVD

Yosemite Mac OS X system is free as a 6+ gig download so you only want to do it once and keeping a backup makes sense, here is how to make a Dual Layer Installation Boot DVD.




The terminal commands needed to do this are on:

This Blog Page

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Terminal Commands To Create A OS X Yosemite DVD iso image

The following commands typed into the Mac Terminal Windows will create a Mac OS X Yosemite installation boot DVD iso image file that can be used to create a standalone Yosemite Installation DVD.  The fixed1t YouTube video:

How To Make A Mac OS X Yosemite Installation Boot DVD

will guide you through this process and subsequent step to make the DVD from the iso image file.   Here are the Terminal Commands for copying and pasting, this first command stretches of two lines, click at the end of it and drag all the way to the start of the first line before copying.

The Commands

hdiutil attach /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg -noverify -nobrowse -mountpoint /Volumes/install_app

hdiutil convert /Volumes/install_app/BaseSystem.dmg -format UDSP -o /tmp/Yosemite

hdiutil resize -size 8g /tmp/Yosemite.sparseimage

hdiutil attach /tmp/Yosemite.sparseimage -noverify -nobrowse -mountpoint /Volumes/install_build

rm /Volumes/install_build/System/Installation/Packages

cp -rp /Volumes/install_app/Packages /Volumes/install_build/System/Installation/

cp -rp /Volumes/install_app/BaseSystem.chunklist /Volumes/install_build

cp -rp /Volumes/install_app/BaseSystem.dmg /Volumes/install_build

hdiutil detach /Volumes/install_app

hdiutil detach /Volumes/install_build

hdiutil resize -size `hdiutil resize -limits /tmp/Yosemite.sparseimage | tail -n 1 | awk '{ print $1 }'`b /tmp/Yosemite.sparseimage

hdiutil convert /tmp/Yosemite.sparseimage -format UDTO -o /tmp/Yosemite

rm /tmp/Yosemite.sparseimage

mv /tmp/Yosemite.cdr ~/Desktop/Yosemite.iso

Once this is completed, a Yosemite.iso disc image file should appear on the desktop.

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