The Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks download script is now hosted on Mavericks Forever. To download Mavericks, open a Terminal on any Mac and run:
curl mavericksforever.com/get.sh | sh
Or, navigate directly to mavericksforever.com/get.sh to read what the script does.
So great news , after a few failed attempts (Could Not Unmount Volume etc.) , I found that having the finder window open showing the volume stopped it being unmounted for some weird reason. Also at the end I got an ASR error , but I think that was just trying to rename the USB.
Odd, I'm not immediately sure what to do about that. (I know you got it working but it's a shame it wasn't a smoother experience.)
One last question , any guess why the Installer I can download from an old OS App Store will not just work using the createmedia tool? and any idea why when I try to look inside the app contents the shared system InstallESD.dmg is reporting itself as corrupt?
If I recall correctly, the InstallESD.dmg inside the App Store's Mavericks installer was never restorable, even when Mavericks was current. But of course createinstallmedia worked at one point.
From what I understand, Apple updated the App Store Mavericks installer some years back to re-sign a certificate or something, but ended up breaking it. Or something like that, haven't looked into this closely—but It's not only broken for you!
Many thanks , that explains a lot.
Congrats again with the great work in automating the whole process. 👍👍
Last login: Mon Dec 1 01:16:03 on ttys000
/Users/alex/create-bootable-installer.command ; exit;
alex@Louises-MacBook-Air ~ % /Users/alex/create-bootable-installer.command ; exit;
Checksumming partition of size 0 blocks...done
Block checksum: ....10....20....30....40....50....60....70....80....90....100
successfully scanned image "/Users/alex/InstallMacOSXMavericks.dmg"
Please enter the volume name of your USB flash drive: Untitled
WARNING: All data on Untitled will be erased. Continue? (yes/no) yes
Password:
Started partitioning on disk2
Unmounting disk
Creating the partition map
Waiting for partitions to activate
Formatting disk2s2 as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with name Untitled
Initialized /dev/rdisk2s2 as a 57 GB case-insensitive HFS Plus volume with a 8192k journal
Mounting disk
Finished partitioning on disk2
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *61.9 GB disk2
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1
2: Apple_HFS Untitled 61.5 GB disk2s2
Validating target...done
Validating source...done
Retrieving scan information...done
Validating sizes...done
Restoring ....10....20....30....40....50....60....70....80....90....100
Verifying ....10....20....30....40....50....60....70....80....90....100
Restored target device is /dev/disk2s2.
Remounting target volume...done
asr: Couldn't personalize volume /Volumes/OS X Base System - State not recoverable
Saving session...
...copying shared history...
...saving history...truncating history files...
...completed.
[Process completed]