TechnesstivityHOW TO: Make A Mountain Lion Bootable USB Stick or SD card Installer
Apple’s latest operating system, OSX Mountain Lion which was just released on July 25, will be sold and distributed via Apples Mac App Store only which means no DVD installation disks or USB installation thumb drives and which also means that if you have more than one machine you have to download the 4GB OS over and over and that isn’t going to look very pretty on your data plan bills not to mention the time wasted in downloading the OS especially in countries where broadband isn’t exactly 4G standard.
It is possible to copy the OS onto a USB stick. Lion Diskmaker has been updated to allow you to make a bootable USB or SD Card installer on a 8GB piece of media and it is quite easy.
The process is as follows:
1. Download Mountain Lion from the Mac App Store (Note: the default install deletes the installer image after installation, so you will need to re-download it from Mac App Store/Purchases if you already deleted it.)
2. Download the latest version of Diskmaker (4MB), and then open it. Select “Mountain Lion (10.8)”.
3. It should find the image. If it does not, browse to the image in your applications folder (or wherever you moved it), and then select “Create a boot disk”.
4. Make sure your 8GB or greater USB Stick/Drive/SD card is mounted. Choose partition and go.
That saves a lot of time if you have many machines to update or do not have broadband.
