Popular Post fusion71au Posted November 20, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted November 20, 2017 (edited) Making a High Sierra USB Installer Entirely From Scratch in Windows This is a proof of concept tutorial, to show it's possible to create a vanilla High Sierra installer, entirely from scratch, in Windows (even without App Store downloaded "Install macOS High Sierra.app" from a real Mac ). @PikeRAlpha's link to Apple's Software Catalog provides us with all the URLs necessary to download the needed files directly from Apple instead of some dubious source from the internet... Pre-Requisites 8GB or larger USB drive. Edit: Recommend 16GB or larger for macOS Catalina 10.16 Boot Disk Utility v2.1.2017rev021b from @CVAD TransMac (free 15 day trial) Paragon Hard Disk Manager Free Download Installer Files Directly from Apple 1) Browse Apple's Regular Software Catalog and find the URLs to download the following 6 installer files... BaseSystem.dmg BaseSystem.chunklist InstallInfo.plist InstallESDDmg.pkg AppleDiagnostics.dmg AppleDiagnostics.chunklist (Hint - search page for "InstallESD" to find its URL and others nearby) to a folder named "SharedSupport" on your Windows NTFS drive. A browser download manager (eg Chrono for Chrome, dTA for FireFox) is handy since InstallESD is >4GB ---> allows you to pause/resume interrupted download... 2) Rename InstallESDDmg.pkg to InstallESD.dmg 3) Edit InstallInfo.plist with WordPad/text editor to remove the chunklistURL and chunklistid keys for InstallESD, and renaming it from InstallESDDmg.pkg to InstallESD.dmg (example of edited file attached to this post)... Note: You can verify the SHA1 checksum of your InstallESD.dmg and BaseSystem.dmg with the correct ones at this website. Boot Disk Utility to format the Installer USB and Restore OS X Base System HFS partition 1. Format USB with BDU & latest Clover ---> creates boot files in CLOVER partition + second FAT partition 2. Extract 4.hfs from \SharedSupport\BaseSystem.dmg with BDU --> save to it's local folder 3. Restore 4.hfs to USB second partition with BDU ---> 2nd partition becomes bootable "OS X Base System" Paragon Hard Disk Manager to extend HFS Partition to its Full ExtentOpen Paragon Partition Manager Free and resize the second partition of the USB drive to the full size allowed. Don't forget to apply the changes at the end... Transmac to Copy "SharedSupport" folder to OS X Base System 1. Open the TransMac program and navigate to the HFS+ Volume/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents folder. Right click anywhere in the empty space on the RHS pane and select "Copy Here"... 2. In the next stage, select the "SharedSupport" folder we created above as the "Files and Folders to be copied to the Mac Volume"... Clover Settings Clover configuration is required now. The default config.plist (in the Clover FAT32 partition of the USB) maybe sufficient to boot your machine if you’re lucky. If not, the hackintosh-vanilla-desktop-guide has some good explanations on the various settings available and also offers sample configuration files based on CPU type. Also, look at the Clover Wiki, Clover Instructions and Clover Configuration Thread for pointers and edit /EFI/Clover/config.plist accordingly with Wordpad or Notepad. The location of the important configuration files for Clover are summarized below config.plist--->EFI/CLOVER folder DSDT.aml with or without SSDT.aml--->EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched (don't need one if your DSDT is auto patched by Clover in config.plist) Kexts eg FakeSMC, NullCPUPowerManagement --->EFI/CLOVER/kexts/<osx version> or /Other. NB BootDiskUtility by default already has FakeSMC.kext installed here. You may need to add VoodooPS2Controller for your laptop keyboard/trackpad to work. If UEFI booting, you will most likely need one of the OsxAptioFixDrv-64 drivers copied from /EFI/CLOVER/drivers-off/drivers64UEFI to /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI. If you want to use the installer to run High Sierra in Windows on VMware, you can follow my guide to set up the Virtual Machine and replace Clover's default config with EFI_Clover for VMware (which is compatible to run in VMware). In the screenshots below, I have attached the USB Installer (in this case PhysicalDrive7) to my macOS Virtual Machine. Reboot the system to the USB installer to install High Sierra ... What happens if we don't have access to TransMac or Paragon Hard Disk Manager? Not a problem, as long as we get "OS X Base System" bootable, we can launch terminal from the Utilities Menu to copy the SharedSupport folder over to the Installer app. In essence, we will build the full installer app = 5GB+ on the target HD eg "Macintosh HD", by copying both the "small" installer app = 15MB (on "OS X Base System") and the SharedSupport folder from the NTFS volume (mounted in this example on /Volumes/DATA)... -bash-3.2# cd / -bash-3.2# cp -R Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/ -bash-3.2# cp -R /Volumes/DATA/SharedSupport /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/ ...then start installation with the startosinstall utility... -bash-3.2# /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/startosinstall --volume /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD --converttoapfs NO --applicationpath /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app The above steps can be automated with the attached "startosinstall.command" script, which will assemble "Install macOS High Sierra.app" on "Macintosh HD" and launch the startosinstall utility targeting the "Macintosh HD" volume. Copy/download to "Macintosh HD", then run in terminal (after attaching DATA USB with /Shared Support folder)... cd "/Volumes/Macintosh HD" chmod +x startosinstall.command ./startosinstall.command Updated Download Links for macOS Mojave 10.14.6_18G103 Browse Apple's Regular Software Catalog and find the URLs to download the following 6 installer files... BaseSystem.dmg BaseSystem.chunklist InstallInfo.plist InstallESDDmg.pkg AppleDiagnostics.dmg AppleDiagnostics.chunklist Note: In Mojave, Apple has removed the --converttoapfs NO and --applicationpath arguments from the startosinstall utility.... eg to use startosinstall for the above section "What happens if we don't have access to TransMac or Paragon Hard Disk Manager?", the syntax is now -bash-3.2# /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Install\ macOS\ Mojave.app/Contents/Resources/startosinstall --volume /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD This basically means that for Mojave, the default installation will always convert the target volume to the apfs file system. Updated Download Links for macOS Catalina 10.15.6_19G73 Browse Apple's Regular Software Catalog and find the URLs to download the following 6 installer files... BaseSystem.dmg BaseSystem.chunklist InstallInfo.plist InstallESDDmg.pkg AppleDiagnostics.dmg AppleDiagnostics.chunklist startosinstall.command.zip InstallInfo.plist_edited_10.13.6.zip InstallInfo.plist_edited_10.14.6.zip InstallInfo.plist_edited_10.15.6.zip Edited July 15, 2020 by fusion71au Updated download links 20 8 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/329828-making-a-bootable-high-sierra-usb-installer-entirely-from-scratch-in-windows-or-linux-mint-without-access-to-mac-or-app-store-installerapp/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 Amazing! Thank you fusion 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/329828-making-a-bootable-high-sierra-usb-installer-entirely-from-scratch-in-windows-or-linux-mint-without-access-to-mac-or-app-store-installerapp/#findComment-2537387 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fusion71au Posted November 23, 2017 Author Share Posted November 23, 2017 (edited) Making a High Sierra USB Installer Entirely From Scratch in Linux Mint Prerequisites 8GB or larger USB drive Linux Mint (virtualized is also OK, tested with Mint 17.3 & 18.1) and the following installed packages: hfsplus, hfsprogs, gparted, gdisk, p7zip and dmg2img... Download Installer Files Directly from Apple and Clover from SourceForge 1) Open terminal, create SharedSupport folder in ~/Downloads mkdir ~/Downloads/SharedSupport 2) Browse Apple's Regular Software Catalog and find the URLs to download the following 6 installer files... BaseSystem.dmg BaseSystem.chunklist InstallInfo.plist InstallESDDmg.pkg AppleDiagnostics.dmg AppleDiagnostics.chunklist (Hint - search page for "InstallESD" to find its URL and others nearby) into ~/Downloads/SharedSupport. A browser download manager (eg Chrono for Chrome, dTA for FireFox) is handy since InstallESD is >4GB ---> allows you to pause/resume interrupted download... 3) Rename InstallESDDmg.pkg to InstallESD.dmg mv ~/Downloads/SharedSupport/InstallESDDmg.pkg ~/Downloads/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg 4) Edit InstallInfo.plist with a text editor to remove the chunklistURL and chunklistid keys for InstallESD, and renaming it from InstallESDDmg.pkg to InstallESD.dmg (example of edited file attached to post#1)... Note: You can verify the SHA1 checksum of your InstallESD.dmg and BaseSystem.dmg with the correct ones at this website. 5) If you don't already have Clover installed, download the latest Clover.iso from SourceForge. Extract the EFI folder to ~/Downloads... 6) Determine the size of the "OS X Base System" HFS partition by listing contents of BaseSystem.dmg with 7z l command. Here, 4.hfs=2008506368 bytes=1915.5 MB (1024x1024 bytes per MB) or 3922864 sectors (512 bytes per sector)... fusion71au@fusion71au-VirtualBox ~ $ 7z l ~/Downloads/SharedSupport/BaseSystem.dmg 7-Zip [64] 9.20 Copyright © 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18 p7zip Version 9.20 (locale=en_US.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,1 CPU) Listing archive: ~/Downloads/SharedSupport/BaseSystem.dmg -- Path = ~/Downloads/SharedSupport/BaseSystem.dmg Type = Dmg Method = copy[16]-13636K zero2[202]-593M zlib[503]-1436M-455M Blocks = 721 Date Time Attr Size Compressed Name ------------------- ----- ------------ ------------ ------------------------ ..... 512 30 0.MBR ..... 512 75 1.Primary GPT Header ..... 16384 116 2.Primary GPT Table ..... 3072 0 3.free ..... 2008506368 491582140 4.hfs ..... 134221312 0 5.free ..... 16384 116 6.Backup GPT Table ..... 512 76 7.Backup GPT Header ------------------- ----- ------------ ------------ ------------------------ 2142765056 491582553 8 files, 0 folders Prepare USB with GParted and Restore OS X Base System with dmg2img 1) Open GParted. In this example, I have an 8GB installer disk, /dev/sdb, initialized as GPT from Device Menu... 2) Create the following 2 new partitions Part 1 200MB FAT32 labelled EFI Part 2 5817MB HFS+ labelled Installer_App Leave 2174MB free for OS X Base System restore (=1916+129+129 MB of loader space before and after to keep Apple's Disk Utility happy) 3) Use gdisk to set correct partition type, name and attributes for the EFI System Partition and create new sdb3 for OS X Base System... fusion71au@fusion71au-VirtualBox ~ $ sudo gdisk /dev/sdb [sudo] password for fusion71au: GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.8 Partition table scan: MBR: protective BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: present Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT. Command (? for help): t Partition number (1-3): 1 Current type is 'Microsoft basic data' Hex code or GUID (L to show codes, Enter = 8300): EF00 Changed type of partition to 'EFI System' Command (? for help): c Partition number (1-3): 1 Enter name: EFI Command (? for help): x Expert command (? for help): a Partition number (1-3): 1 Known attributes are: 0: system partition 1: hide from EFI 2: legacy BIOS bootable 60: read-only 62: hidden 63: do not automount Attribute value is 0000000000000000. Set fields are: No fields set Toggle which attribute field (0-63, 64 or <Enter> to exit): 0 Have enabled the 'system partition' attribute. Attribute value is 0000000000000001. Set fields are: 0 (system partition) Toggle which attribute field (0-63, 64 or <Enter> to exit): Expert command (? for help): m Command (? for help): n Partition number (3-128, default 3): 3 First sector (34-16777182, default = 12324864) or {+-}size{KMGTP}: +129M <--- For Disk Utility loader space Last sector (12589056-16777182, default = 16777182) or {+-}size{KMGTP}: 16511920 <--- Equals 12589056+3922864 sectors for Base System Current type is 'Linux filesystem' Hex code or GUID (L to show codes, Enter = 8300): AF00 Changed type of partition to 'Apple HFS/HFS+' Command (? for help): p Disk /dev/sdb: 16777216 sectors, 8.0 GiB Logical sector size: 512 bytes Disk identifier (GUID): 10D5C66B-C765-5247-9DF4-358C0FEB2208 Partition table holds up to 128 entries First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 16777182 Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries Total free space is 531468 sectors (259.5 MiB) Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 2048 411647 200.0 MiB EF00 2 411648 12324863 5.7 GiB AF00 3 12589056 16511920 1.9 GiB AF00 Apple HFS/HFS+ Command (? for help): w Final checks complete. About to write GPT data. THIS WILL OVERWRITE EXISTING PARTITIONS!! Do you want to proceed? (Y/N): y OK; writing new GUID partition table (GPT) to /dev/sdb. The operation has completed successfully. 4) Open Terminal, type lsblk to show the system's attached disks, partitions and their mount points... fusion71au@fusion71au-VirtualBox ~ $ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 50G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 200M 0 part ├─sda2 8:2 0 350M 0 part /boot ├─sda3 8:3 0 15G 0 part / ├─sda4 8:4 0 32.5G 0 part /home └─sda5 8:5 0 2G 0 part [SWAP] sdb 8:16 0 8G 0 disk ├─sdb1 8:17 0 200M 0 part ├─sdb2 8:18 0 5.7G 0 part ├─sdb3 8:19 0 1.9G 0 part sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom 5) Change directory to access the SharedSupport files in ~/Downloads cd ~/Downloads/SharedSupport 6) Type dmg2img -l BaseSystem.dmg to list the "partitions" in the compressed disk image file "BaseSystem.dmg"... fusion71au@fusion71au-VirtualBox ~/Downloads/SharedSupport $ dmg2img -l BaseSystem.dmg dmg2img v1.6.5 (c) vu1tur (to@vu1tur.eu.org) BaseSystem.dmg --> (partition list) partition 0: Protective Master Boot Record (MBR : 0) partition 1: GPT Header (Primary GPT Header : 1) partition 2: GPT Partition Data (Primary GPT Table : 2) partition 3: (Apple_Free : 3) partition 4: disk image (Apple_HFS : 4) partition 5: (Apple_Free : 5) partition 6: GPT Partition Data (Backup GPT Table : 6) partition 7: GPT Header (Backup GPT Header : 7) 7) Use the command sudo dmg2img -v -i BaseSystem.dmg -p 4 -o /dev/sdb3 to write the 4.hfs image to your "OS X Base System" volume ie sdb3 partition. fusion71au@fusion71au-VirtualBox ~/Downloads/SharedSupport $ sudo dmg2img -v -i BaseSystem.dmg -p 4 -o /dev/sdb3 [sudo] password for fusion71au: dmg2img v1.6.5 (c) vu1tur (to@vu1tur.eu.org) BaseSystem.dmg --> /dev/sdb3 reading property list, 52391 bytes from address 491582553 ... partition 0: begin=203, size=430, decoded=284 partition 1: begin=948, size=430, decoded=284 partition 2: begin=1695, size=430, decoded=284 partition 3: begin=2424, size=430, decoded=284 partition 4: begin=3137, size=42778, decoded=28804 partition 5: begin=46198, size=430, decoded=284 partition 6: begin=46926, size=430, decoded=284 partition 7: begin=47671, size=430, decoded=284 decompressing: opening partition 4 ... [715] 100.00% ok Archive successfully decompressed as /dev/sdb3 You should be able to mount the image [as root] by: modprobe hfsplus mount -t hfsplus -o loop /dev/sdb3 /mnt 8) Create mounting folders in /media/your_username sudo mkdir /media/fusion71au/EFI sudo mkdir /media/fusion71au/Installer_App 9) Mount the Installer_App volume (corresponding to sdb2) and copy the SharedSupport folder to its root ... sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /media/fusion71au/Installer_App sudo cp -R ~/Downloads/SharedSupport /media/fusion71au/Installer_App/ 10) Mount the EFI partition, sdb1, and copy the EFI folder containing Clover into it... sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/fusion71au/EFI sudo cp -R ~/Downloads/EFI /media/fusion71au/EFI/ Clover Settings Clover configuration is required now. The default config.plist (in the EFI partition, /EFI/Clover folder of the USB) maybe sufficient to boot your machine if you’re lucky. If not, look at the Clover Wiki, Clover Instructions and Clover Configuration Thread for pointers and edit /EFI/Clover/config.plist accordingly with a text editor. The location of the important configuration files for Clover are summarized below config.plist--->EFI/CLOVER folder DSDT.aml with or without SSDT.aml--->EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched (don't need one if your DSDT is auto patched by Clover in config.plist) Kexts eg FakeSMC, NullCPUPowerManagement --->EFI/CLOVER/kexts/<osx version> or /Other. You may need to add VoodooPS2Controller for your laptop keyboard/trackpad to work. If legacy booting, you need to install legacy boot sectors on the drive (boot0af, boot1f32 and boot6). There is an automated install for this here by @StarBrilliant If UEFI booting, you will most likely need one of the OsxAptioFixDrv-64 drivers copied from /EFI/CLOVER/drivers-off/drivers64UEFI to /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI. Hint: For newbs, you don't necessarily need Clover to boot the installer in a VMware virtual machine. Just attach the installer (without Clover) to a macOS guest running on a VMware Windows host (patched with @Donk's unlocker program - to create the VM guest, see my VMware guide). Boot to OS X Base System, build "Install macOS High Sierra.app" then startosinstall in Terminal 1) Unmount sdb1 & sdb2, sudo umount /dev/sdb1 sudo umount /dev/sdb2 then reboot your system to the USB Installer using the system's boot device selection key eg F12 for Gigabyte motherboards, F8 for ASUS motherboards, F11 for ASrock motherboards ... 2) Launch Disk Utility from the macOS Utilities main screen and prepare the target hard disk to install High Sierra eg "Macintosh HD", erase/formatted as HFS+j. Hint - click View Menu to Show All Devices... 3) Launch terminal from the macOS Utilities main screen, Utilities Menu... 4) Type the following commands to assemble the full "Install macOS High Sierra.app" on the Installer_App volume... -bash-3.2# cd / -bash-3.2# cp -R Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app /Volumes/Installer_App/ -bash-3.2# mv /Volumes/Installer_App/SharedSupport /Volumes/Installer_App/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/ Terminal Hints: Type the first few characters of a path, then press <Tab> key ---> rest of the path will autocomplete. Pressing the <up> arrow key will duplicate the previous command entered into terminal. 5) Start installation with the startosinstall utility in Terminal... -bash-3.2# /Volumes/Installer_App/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/startosinstall --volume /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD --converttoapfs NO --applicationpath /Volumes/Installer_App/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app where "Macintosh HD" is the target volume to install High Sierra in this example... Steps 4 and 5 can be automated with the attached "startosinstall.command" script, which will assemble "Install macOS High Sierra.app" on the "Installer_App" partition of the USB and launch the startosinstall utility targeting the "Macintosh HD" volume. Copy/download to Installer_App volume, then run in terminal... cd /Volumes/Installer_App chmod +x startosinstall.command ./startosinstall.command startosinstall.command.zip Edited July 15, 2018 by fusion71au update download links for 10.13.6 7 2 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/329828-making-a-bootable-high-sierra-usb-installer-entirely-from-scratch-in-windows-or-linux-mint-without-access-to-mac-or-app-store-installerapp/#findComment-2538638 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiddRamesh Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 Sir how can i get AMD Radeon HD on 10.13.1 ! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/329828-making-a-bootable-high-sierra-usb-installer-entirely-from-scratch-in-windows-or-linux-mint-without-access-to-mac-or-app-store-installerapp/#findComment-2538667 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badruzeus Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 Making a High Sierra USB Installer Entirely From Scratch in Linux Mint Prerequisites 8GB or larger USB drive Linux Mint (virtualized is also OK, tested with Mint 17.3 & 18.1) and the following installed packages: hfsplus, hfsprogs, gparted, gdisk and dmg2img... Install HFS Utilities with Synaptic.png Download Installer Files Directly from Apple and Clover from SourceForge 1) Open terminal, create SharedSupport folder in ~/Downloads mkdir ~/Downloads/SharedSupport 2) Browse Apple's Regular Software Catalog and find the URLs to download the following 6 installer files... BaseSystem.dmg BaseSystem.chunklist InstallInfo.plist InstallESDDmg.pkg AppleDiagnostics.dmg AppleDiagnostics.chunklist (Hint - search page for "InstallESD" to find its URL and others nearby) into ~/Downloads/SharedSupport. A browser download manager (eg Chrono for Chrome, dTA for FireFox) is handy since InstallESD is >4GB ---> allows you to pause/resume interrupted download... 3) Rename InstallESDDmg.pkg to InstallESD.dmg mv ~/Downloads/SharedSupport/InstallESDDmg.pkg ~/Downloads/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg 4) Edit InstallInfo.plist with a text editor to remove the chunklistURL and chunklistid keys for InstallESD, and renaming it from InstallESDDmg.pkg to InstallESD.dmg (example of edited file attached to post#1)... Edit InstallInfo.plist.png 5) If you don't already have Clover installed, download the latest Clover.iso from SourceForge. Extract the EFI folder to ~/Downloads... Extract Clover iso from tar.lzma using Archive Manager.png Extract EFI folder from Clover iso1.png Extract EFI folder from Clover iso2.png Extract EFI folder from Clover iso3.png Prepare USB with GParted and Restore OS X Base System with dmg2img 1) Open GParted. In this example, I have a 8GB installer disk, initialized as GPT from Device Menu... GParted Device Create Partition Table GPT or msdos1.png GParted Device Create Partition Table GPT or msdos2.png 2) Create the following 3 new partitions Part 1 200MB FAT32 labelled EFIPart 2 5812MB HFS+ labelled Installer_AppPart 3 1921MB HFS+ labelled "OS X Base System" should have 129MB free "loader" space before and after it so Apple's Disk Utility is happy... GParted New Partition EFI FAT32.png GParted New Partition EFI FAT32_2.png GParted New Partition Installer_App HFS.png GParted New Partition OS X Base System HFS.png GParted Apply Changes.png GParted Final Partition Map.png 3) Use gdisk to set correct partition type, name and attributes for the EFI System Partition ... fusion71au@fusion71au-VirtualBox ~ $ sudo gdisk /dev/sdb GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.8 Partition table scan: MBR: protective BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: present Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT. Command (? for help): v No problems found. 266173 free sectors (130.0 MiB) available in 2 segments, the largest of which is 264159 (129.0 MiB) in size. Command (? for help): t Partition number (1-3): 1 Current type is 'Microsoft basic data' Hex code or GUID (L to show codes, Enter = 8300): EF00 Changed type of partition to 'EFI System' Command (? for help): c Partition number (1-3): 1 Enter name: EFI Command (? for help): x Expert command (? for help): a Partition number (1-3): 1 Known attributes are: 0: system partition 1: hide from EFI 2: legacy BIOS bootable 60: read-only 62: hidden 63: do not automount Attribute value is 0000000000000000. Set fields are: No fields set Toggle which attribute field (0-63, 64 or <Enter> to exit): 0 Have enabled the 'system partition' attribute. Attribute value is 0000000000000001. Set fields are: 0 (system partition) Toggle which attribute field (0-63, 64 or <Enter> to exit): Expert command (? for help): m Command (? for help): p Disk /dev/sdb: 16777216 sectors, 8.0 GiB Logical sector size: 512 bytes Disk identifier (GUID): ED6532BB-14E1-4E3C-92FF-14E1C5F1B0A8 Partition table holds up to 128 entries First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 16777182 Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries Total free space is 266173 sectors (130.0 MiB) Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 2048 411647 200.0 MiB EF00 EFI 2 411648 12578815 5.8 GiB AF00 3 12578816 16513023 1.9 GiB AF00 Command (? for help): w Final checks complete. About to write GPT data. THIS WILL OVERWRITE EXISTING PARTITIONS!! Do you want to proceed? (Y/N): y OK; writing new GUID partition table (GPT) to /dev/sdb. The operation has completed successfully. 4) Open Terminal, type lsblk to show the system's attached disks, partitions and their mount points... fusion71au@fusion71au-VirtualBox ~ $ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 50G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 200M 0 part ├─sda2 8:2 0 350M 0 part /boot ├─sda3 8:3 0 15G 0 part / ├─sda4 8:4 0 32.5G 0 part /home └─sda5 8:5 0 2G 0 part [SWAP] sdb 8:16 0 8G 0 disk ├─sdb1 8:17 0 200M 0 part ├─sdb2 8:18 0 5.7G 0 part ├─sdb3 8:19 0 1.9G 0 part sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom 5) Change directory to access the SharedSupport files in ~/Downloads cd ~/Downloads/SharedSupport 6) Type dmg2img -l BaseSystem.dmg to list the "partitions" in the compressed disk image file "BaseSystem.dmg"... fusion71au@fusion71au-VirtualBox ~/Downloads/SharedSupport $ dmg2img -l BaseSystem.dmg dmg2img v1.6.5 (c) vu1tur (to@vu1tur.eu.org) BaseSystem.dmg --> (partition list) partition 0: Protective Master Boot Record (MBR : 0) partition 1: GPT Header (Primary GPT Header : 1) partition 2: GPT Partition Data (Primary GPT Table : 2) partition 3: (Apple_Free : 3) partition 4: disk image (Apple_HFS : 4) partition 5: (Apple_Free : 5) partition 6: GPT Partition Data (Backup GPT Table : 6) partition 7: GPT Header (Backup GPT Header : 7) 7) Use the command sudo dmg2img -v -i BaseSystem.dmg -p 4 -o /dev/sdb3 to write the 4.hfs image to your "OS X Base System" volume ie sdb3 partition. fusion71au@fusion71au-VirtualBox ~/Downloads/SharedSupport $ sudo dmg2img -v -i BaseSystem.dmg -p 4 -o /dev/sdb3 [sudo] password for fusion71au: dmg2img v1.6.5 (c) vu1tur (to@vu1tur.eu.org) BaseSystem.dmg --> /dev/sdb3 reading property list, 52391 bytes from address 491582553 ... partition 0: begin=203, size=430, decoded=284 partition 1: begin=948, size=430, decoded=284 partition 2: begin=1695, size=430, decoded=284 partition 3: begin=2424, size=430, decoded=284 partition 4: begin=3137, size=42778, decoded=28804 partition 5: begin=46198, size=430, decoded=284 partition 6: begin=46926, size=430, decoded=284 partition 7: begin=47671, size=430, decoded=284 decompressing: opening partition 4 ... [715] 100.00% ok Archive successfully decompressed as /dev/sdb3 You should be able to mount the image [as root] by: modprobe hfsplus mount -t hfsplus -o loop /dev/sdb3 /mnt 8) Create mounting folders in /media/your_username sudo mkdir /media/fusion71au/EFI sudo mkdir /media/fusion71au/Installer_App 9) Mount the Installer_App volume (corresponding to sdb2) and copy the SharedSupport folder to its root ... sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /media/fusion71au/Installer_App sudo cp -R ~/Downloads/SharedSupport /media/fusion71au/Installer_App/ 10) Mount the EFI partition, sdb1, and copy the EFI folder containing Clover into it... sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/fusion71au/EFI sudo cp -R ~/Downloads/EFI /media/fusion71au/EFI/ Clover Settings Clover configuration is required now. The default config.plist (in the Clover FAT32 partition of the USB) maybe sufficient to boot your machine if you’re lucky. If not, look at the Clover Wiki, Clover Instructions and Clover Configuration Thread for pointers and edit /EFI/Clover/config.plist accordingly with Wordpad or Notepad. The location of the important configuration files for Clover are summarized below config.plist--->EFI/CLOVER folder DSDT.aml with or without SSDT.aml--->EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched (don't need one if your DSDT is auto patched by Clover in config.plist) Kexts eg FakeSMC, NullCPUPowerManagement --->EFI/CLOVER/kexts/<osx version> or /Other. You may need to add VoodooPS2Controller for your laptop keyboard/trackpad to work. Boot to OS X Base System, build "Install macOS High Sierra.app" then startosinstall in Terminal 1) Unmount sdb1 & sdb2, sudo umount /dev/sdb1 sudo umount /dev/sdb2 then reboot your system.... Boot macOS from OS X Base System.png 2) Launch terminal from macOS Utilities Menu macOS Utilities.png 3) Type the following commands to assemble the full "Install macOS High Sierra.app" on the Installer_App volume... -bash-3.2# cd / -bash-3.2# cp -R Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app /Volumes/Installer_App/ -bash-3.2# mv /Volumes/Installer_App/SharedSupport /Volumes/Installer_App/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/ Terminal Hints: Type the first few characters of a path, then press <Tab> key ---> rest of the path will autocomplete. Pressing the <up> arrow key will duplicate the previous command entered into terminal. 4) Start installation with the startosinstall utility... -bash-3.2# /Volumes/Installer_App/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/startosinstall --volume /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD --converttoapfs NO --applicationpath /Volumes/Installer_App/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app where "Macintosh HD" is the target volume to install High Sierra in this example. Interesting, thanks @fusion72au.. 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/329828-making-a-bootable-high-sierra-usb-installer-entirely-from-scratch-in-windows-or-linux-mint-without-access-to-mac-or-app-store-installerapp/#findComment-2538670 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ice_pdb Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 Is there any way to make the usb installer drive GPT? from windows Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/329828-making-a-bootable-high-sierra-usb-installer-entirely-from-scratch-in-windows-or-linux-mint-without-access-to-mac-or-app-store-installerapp/#findComment-2538899 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fusion71au Posted November 24, 2017 Author Share Posted November 24, 2017 @ice_pdb, Yes, its possible to create a GPT formatted installer disk with dmg2img for Windows, Win32 Disk Imager, Paragon Partition Manager and gdisk instead of MBR using @CVAD's Boot Disk Utility. Procedure1) Convert BaseSystem.dmg to BaseSystem.img with dmg2img.exe: In command prompt, type dmg2img BaseSystem.dmg BaseSystem.img 2) Open BaseSystem.img in Win32 Disk Imager ---> write to USB drive 3) Launch Paragon PM and move HFS+ OS X Base System volume to the right so 200MB free space created at the start of the drive create new 200MB FAT32 partition at the start of the drive, labelled EFI extend HFS+ OS X Base System volume to right (but leave approx 130MB free space at end) 4) Set correct name, type and partition attribute for EFI System Partition with gdisk in command prompt window. H:\gdisk>gdisk64 7: <--- This is the disk number given to the usb drive by the system. Find out by opening "Disk Management".GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.0Partition table scan: MBR: protective BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: presentFound valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.Command (? for help): pDisk 7:: 7827456 sectors, 3.7 GiBLogical sector size: 512 bytesDisk identifier (GUID): ED6532BB-14E1-4E3C-92FF-14E1C5F1B0A8Partition table holds up to 128 entriesFirst usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 7827422Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundariesTotal free space is 272317 sectors (133.0 MiB)Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 2048 413695 201.0 MiB 0700 Basic data partition 2 413696 7557119 3.4 GiB AF00 disk imageCommand (? for help): cPartition number (1-2): 1Enter name: EFICommand (? for help): tPartition number (1-2): 1Current type is 'Microsoft basic data'Hex code or GUID (L to show codes, Enter = 700): EF00Changed type of partition to 'EFI System'Command (? for help): xExpert command (? for help): aPartition number (1-2): 1Known attributes are:0: system partition1: hide from EFI2: legacy BIOS bootable60: read-only62: hidden63: do not automountAttribute value is 0000000000000000. Set fields are: No fields setToggle which attribute field (0-63, 64 or <Enter> to exit): 0Have enabled the 'system partition' attribute.Attribute value is 0000000000000001. Set fields are:0 (system partition)Toggle which attribute field (0-63, 64 or <Enter> to exit):Expert command (? for help): pDisk 7:: 7827456 sectors, 3.7 GiBLogical sector size: 512 bytesDisk identifier (GUID): ED6532BB-14E1-4E3C-92FF-14E1C5F1B0A8Partition table holds up to 128 entriesFirst usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 7827422Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundariesTotal free space is 272317 sectors (133.0 MiB)Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 2048 413695 201.0 MiB EF00 EFI 2 413696 7557119 3.4 GiB AF00 disk imageExpert command (? for help): wFinal checks complete. About to write GPT data. THIS WILL OVERWRITE EXISTINGPARTITIONS!!Do you want to proceed? (Y/N): yOK; writing new GUID partition table (GPT) to \\.\physicaldrive7.Disk synchronization succeeded! The computer should now use the newpartition table.Expert command (? for help): mCommand (? for help): q Final result ... 5) Open TransMac to copy downloaded files in /SharedSupport folder from NTFS Windows drive to /Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents on "OS X Base System" HFS volume 6) Install Clover in Windows - see guide here . Post#1 is for UEFI systems ---> only need to copy CLOVER folder into /EFI on the EFI System Partition + replace /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi with Clover's BOOTX64.efi. Post#3 for legacy BIOS systems ---> need to also install boot sectors (boot0af, boot1f32 in MBR/PBR with Bootice Program) and boot6 or boot7 in the root / of the EFI partition. Note: the MBR installer made with @CVAD's Boot Disk Utility already has legacy boot sectors for Clover installed ---> should work with BOTH legacy and UEFI systems. 2 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/329828-making-a-bootable-high-sierra-usb-installer-entirely-from-scratch-in-windows-or-linux-mint-without-access-to-mac-or-app-store-installerapp/#findComment-2538940 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ice_pdb Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 @fusion71au thank you very much, I'll try it as soon as I get home. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/329828-making-a-bootable-high-sierra-usb-installer-entirely-from-scratch-in-windows-or-linux-mint-without-access-to-mac-or-app-store-installerapp/#findComment-2539042 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Z800MAC Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 Making a High Sierra USB Installer Entirely From Scratch in Windows This is a proof of concept tutorial, to show it's possible to create a vanilla High Sierra installer, entirely from scratch, in Windows (even without App Store downloaded "Install macOS High Sierra.app" from a real Mac ). @PikeRAlpha's link to Apple's Software Catalog provides us with all the URLs necessary to download the needed files directly from Apple instead of some dubious source from the internet... Apple SW Catalog URLs Pike's Universum.png Pre-Requisites 8GB or larger USB drive Boot Disk Utility v2.1.2017rev021b from @CVAD TransMac (free 15 day trial) Paragon Hard Disk Manager Free Download Installer Files Directly from Apple 1) Browse Apple's Regular Software Catalog and find the URLs to download the following 6 installer files... BaseSystem.dmg BaseSystem.chunklist InstallInfo.plist InstallESDDmg.pkg AppleDiagnostics.dmg AppleDiagnostics.chunklist (Hint - search page for "InstallESD" to find its URL and others nearby) Apple SW Catalog Find InstallESD in browser.png to a folder named "SharedSupport" on your Windows NTFS drive. A browser download manager (eg Chrono for Chrome, dTA for FireFox) is handy since InstallESD is >4GB ---> allows you to pause/resume interrupted download... Apple SW Catalog List of Download Manager Downloads.png 2) Rename InstallESDDmg.pkg to InstallESD.dmg Rename InstallESDDmg.pkg to InstallESD.dmg1.png Rename InstallESDDmg.pkg to InstallESD.dmg2.png 3) Edit InstallInfo.plist with WordPad/text editor to remove the chunklistURL and chunklistid keys for InstallESD, and renaming it from InstallESDDmg.pkg to InstallESD.dmg (example of edited file attached to this post)... Edit InstallInfo.plist.png InstallInfo.plist_edited_final.png Boot Disk Utility to format the Installer USB and Restore OS X Base System HFS partition 1. Format USB with BDU & latest Clover ---> creates boot files in CLOVER partition + second FAT partition BDU Configuration.png BDU Disk Format.png 2. Extract 4.hfs from \SharedSupport\BaseSystem.dmg with BDU --> save to it's local folder BDU Extract HFS from DMG.png BDU Extract HFS select BaseSystem.dmg.png BDU Extracting 4.hfs to BDU folder.png 3. Restore 4.hfs to USB second partition with BDU ---> 2nd partition becomes bootable "OS X Base System" BDU restore 4.hfs to second partition.png Paragon Hard Disk Manager to extend HFS Partition to its Full Extent Open Paragon Partition Manager Free and resize the second partition of the USB drive to the full size allowed. Don't forget to apply the changes at the end... Paragon1.png Paragon2.png Paragon3.png Paragon4.png Transmac to Copy "SharedSupport" folder to OS X Base System 1. Open the TransMac program and navigate to the HFS+ Volume/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents folder. Right click anywhere in the empty space on the RHS pane and select "Copy Here"... TransMac Copy Here.png 2. In the next stage, select the "SharedSupport" folder we created above as the "Files and Folders to be copied to the Mac Volume"... TransMac Select Files and Folders to be copied here1.png TransMac Select Files and Folders to be copied here2.png TransMac SharedSupport.png Clover Settings Clover configuration is required now. The default config.plist (in the Clover FAT32 partition of the USB) maybe sufficient to boot your machine if you’re lucky. If not, look at the Clover Wiki, Clover Instructions and Clover Configuration Thread for pointers and edit /EFI/Clover/config.plist accordingly with Wordpad or Notepad. The location of the important configuration files for Clover are summarized below config.plist--->EFI/CLOVER folder DSDT.aml with or without SSDT.aml--->EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched (don't need one if your DSDT is auto patched by Clover in config.plist) Kexts eg FakeSMC, NullCPUPowerManagement --->EFI/CLOVER/kexts/<osx version> or /Other. NB BootDiskUtility by default already has FakeSMC.kext installed here. You may need to add VoodooPS2Controller for your laptop keyboard/trackpad to work. If UEFI booting, you will most likely need one of the OsxAptioFixDrv-64 drivers copied from /EFI/CLOVER/drivers-off/drivers64UEFI to /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI. If you want to use the installer to run High Sierra in Windows on VMware, you can follow my guide to set up the Virtual Machine and replace Clover's default config with EFI_Clover for VMware (which is compatible to run in VMware). In the screenshots below, I have attached the USB Installer (in this case PhysicalDrive7) to my macOS Virtual Machine. Reboot the system to the USB installer to install High Sierra ... VMware attach USB as physical drive.png Boot macOS from OS X Base System.png Reinstall macOS.png High Sierra Install 1st screen.png What happens if we don't have access to TransMac or Paragon Hard Disk Manager? Not a problem, as long as we get "OS X Base System" bootable, we can launch terminal from the Utilities Menu to copy the SharedSupport folder over to the Installer app. In essence, we will build the full installer app = 5GB+ on the target HD eg "Macintosh HD", by copying both the "small" installer app = 15MB (on "OS X Base System") and the SharedSupport folder from the NTFS volume (mounted in this example on /Volumes/DATA)... -bash-3.2# cd / -bash-3.2# cp -R Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/ -bash-3.2# cp -R /Volumes/DATA/SharedSupport /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/ Small Install app 15MB vs Full Install app -5GB_1.png Small Install app 15MB vs Full Install app -5GB_2.png ...then start installation with the startosinstall utility... -bash-3.2# /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/startosinstall --volume /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD --converttoapfs NO --applicationpath /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app startosinstall on Macintosh HD target.png startosinstall system reboot.png The above steps can be automated with the attached "startosinstall.command" script, which will assemble "Install macOS High Sierra.app" on "Macintosh HD" and launch the startosinstall utility targeting the "Macintosh HD" volume. Copy/download to "Macintosh HD", then run in terminal (after attaching DATA USB with /Shared Support folder)... cd "/Volumes/Macintosh HD" chmod +x startosinstall.command ./startosinstall.command I tried it and it all went well. I made a image from the usb and it successfully booted a virtual box vm. After Installer did copied files to the drive it went for a reboot. after that I booted it with clover, Installer showed up again to continue installation but suddenly showed this error: macOS could not be installed on your computer The path /System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg appears to be missing or damaged. Quit the installer to restart your computer and try again. https://image.ibb.co/gNqtAR/Screenshot_2017_12_25_07_20_01.png any idea what I should do? 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PippoX0 Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 Great tutorials ! Thank you Fusion. I will give a try soon ... sent from my iPhone 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/329828-making-a-bootable-high-sierra-usb-installer-entirely-from-scratch-in-windows-or-linux-mint-without-access-to-mac-or-app-store-installerapp/#findComment-2557384 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fusion71au Posted December 28, 2017 Author Share Posted December 28, 2017 The path /System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg appears to be missing or damaged. Quit the installer to restart your computer and try again. https://image.ibb.co/gNqtAR/Screenshot_2017_12_25_07_20_01.png any idea what I should do? First, verify the SHA1 checksum of your InstallESD.dmg and BaseSystem.dmg with the correct ones at this website. Eg for "Install macOS High Sierra.app" 10.13.2_17C88, SHA1 in Terminal... fusion71aus-iMac:~ fusion71au$ shasum /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg 49e336085247331ea6033ebd3598a827caa6596e /Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg fusion71aus-iMac:~ fusion71au$ shasum /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/BaseSystem.dmg 209d6a382026115a30c79f0825aec1b7a4cdb2dd /Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/BaseSystem.dmg The OSInstall.mpkg error can sometimes be due to "stale data" in /macOS Install Data (time stamp/IAEndDate in OSInstallAttr.plist too old). Easiest to erase target drive and start again... If using VirtualBox, follow instructions exactly as per post#75. If using VMware, follow instructions as per post#41. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/329828-making-a-bootable-high-sierra-usb-installer-entirely-from-scratch-in-windows-or-linux-mint-without-access-to-mac-or-app-store-installerapp/#findComment-2557780 Share on other sites More sharing options...
justmex Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 how do i add ennoch to make it legacy compat?thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/329828-making-a-bootable-high-sierra-usb-installer-entirely-from-scratch-in-windows-or-linux-mint-without-access-to-mac-or-app-store-installerapp/#findComment-2608281 Share on other sites More sharing options...
justmex Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 there are a couple links for each file, are they the same files? thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/329828-making-a-bootable-high-sierra-usb-installer-entirely-from-scratch-in-windows-or-linux-mint-without-access-to-mac-or-app-store-installerapp/#findComment-2609435 Share on other sites More sharing options...
roon83 Posted April 14, 2018 Share Posted April 14, 2018 On 4/13/2018 at 1:22 AM, justmex said: there are a couple links for each file, are they the same files? thanks One of them is the chunklist and the other is a dmg file so they are different. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/329828-making-a-bootable-high-sierra-usb-installer-entirely-from-scratch-in-windows-or-linux-mint-without-access-to-mac-or-app-store-installerapp/#findComment-2609749 Share on other sites More sharing options...
justmex Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 21 hours ago, roon83 said: One of them is the chunklist and the other is a dmg file so they are different. no, no, when you do a search on the xml to Apple's files there are two links for each of the sox files, are they redundancy links? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/329828-making-a-bootable-high-sierra-usb-installer-entirely-from-scratch-in-windows-or-linux-mint-without-access-to-mac-or-app-store-installerapp/#findComment-2609912 Share on other sites More sharing options...
1782276304 Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 have a look Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/329828-making-a-bootable-high-sierra-usb-installer-entirely-from-scratch-in-windows-or-linux-mint-without-access-to-mac-or-app-store-installerapp/#findComment-2610916 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ntd252 Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 If my USB already has EFI and HFS partition, will I need to format it using patragon? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/329828-making-a-bootable-high-sierra-usb-installer-entirely-from-scratch-in-windows-or-linux-mint-without-access-to-mac-or-app-store-installerapp/#findComment-2611056 Share on other sites More sharing options...
odare24 Posted May 18, 2018 Share Posted May 18, 2018 Thank you so much for this great effort. My os stopped booting. So I have followed the steps as stated above. except the step below. All i want to do is use the installer created above to install my mac os. My question is Do i need to do the clover settings below? 2. I tried installing with all the steps above, so i attached the usb to my system and I was greeted with OS X Base System and EFI Boot... I choose egi boot... then clover came up ..it was trying to install , then my mac made 3 sounds continously, i gues it wasnt working ,lol) so i restarted the mac and I choose OS Xbase system...that also was installing suddenly it failed. How do i install high sierra with all the steps I have done above... and do i need clover setting below. If i need it, how can i apply it, thanks On 12/26/2017 at 6:57 AM, dindu5678 said: Clover Settings Clover configuration is required now. The default config.plist (in the Clover FAT32 partition of the USB) maybe sufficient to boot your machine if you’re lucky. If not, look at the Clover Wiki, Clover Instructions and Clover Configuration Thread for pointers and edit /EFI/Clover/config.plist accordingly with Wordpad or Notepad. The location of the important configuration files for Clover are summarized below config.plist--->EFI/CLOVER folder DSDT.aml with or without SSDT.aml--->EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched (don't need one if your DSDT is auto patched by Clover in config.plist) Kexts eg FakeSMC, NullCPUPowerManagement --->EFI/CLOVER/kexts/<osx version> or /Other. NB BootDiskUtility by default already has FakeSMC.kext installed here. You may need to add VoodooPS2Controller for your laptop keyboard/trackpad to work. If UEFI booting, you will most likely need one of the OsxAptioFixDrv-64 drivers copied from /EFI/CLOVER/drivers-off/drivers64UEFI to /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/329828-making-a-bootable-high-sierra-usb-installer-entirely-from-scratch-in-windows-or-linux-mint-without-access-to-mac-or-app-store-installerapp/#findComment-2614104 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyTeeka Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 Comparing these two files from the Apple Catalog... http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/07/20/091-95774/awldiototubemmsbocipx0ic9lj2kcu0pt/InstallInfo.plist http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/29/03/091-94326/45lbgwa82gbgt7zbgeqlaurw2t9zxl8ku7/InstallInfo.plist I noticed different version numbers: 10.13.6.0.0.1532145923 and 10.13.6.0.0.1530695593 Are they both release versions? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/329828-making-a-bootable-high-sierra-usb-installer-entirely-from-scratch-in-windows-or-linux-mint-without-access-to-mac-or-app-store-installerapp/#findComment-2631648 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fusion71au Posted August 25, 2018 Author Share Posted August 25, 2018 (edited) 14 hours ago, CrazyTeeka said: Comparing these two files from the Apple Catalog... http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/07/20/091-95774/awldiototubemmsbocipx0ic9lj2kcu0pt/InstallInfo.plist http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/29/03/091-94326/45lbgwa82gbgt7zbgeqlaurw2t9zxl8ku7/InstallInfo.plist I noticed different version numbers: 10.13.6.0.0.1532145923 and 10.13.6.0.0.1530695593 Are they both release versions? Yes, both are release versions of High Sierra 10.13.6: http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/29/03/091-94326...---> corresponds to build 10.13.6.17G65 http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/07/20/091-95774...---> corresponds to build 10.13.6.17G2208 (with latest security update). Edited August 26, 2018 by fusion71au Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/329828-making-a-bootable-high-sierra-usb-installer-entirely-from-scratch-in-windows-or-linux-mint-without-access-to-mac-or-app-store-installerapp/#findComment-2631712 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manash420 Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 @fusion71au How to identify the macOs version of baseSystem.dmg and InstallESD.dmg from the apple catalogue? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/329828-making-a-bootable-high-sierra-usb-installer-entirely-from-scratch-in-windows-or-linux-mint-without-access-to-mac-or-app-store-installerapp/#findComment-2635753 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fusion71au Posted September 20, 2018 Author Share Posted September 20, 2018 8 hours ago, Manash420 said: @fusion71au How to identify the macOs version of baseSystem.dmg and InstallESD.dmg from the apple catalogue? Download, then open the corresponding English.dist file in a text editor. Eg BaseSystem.dmg and InstallESDDmg.pkg for Mojave Beta11_18A389 have the following URLs... http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/42/45/091-62771/dsx32mbizk8mo8nx84umbwp5iknyxpgyxc/BaseSystem.dmg http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/42/45/091-62771/dsx32mbizk8mo8nx84umbwp5iknyxpgyxc/InstallESDDmg.pkg Corresponding English.dist file URL is https://swdist.apple.com/content/downloads/42/45/091-62771/dsx32mbizk8mo8nx84umbwp5iknyxpgyxc/091-62771.English.dist Opening this file in text editor shows this ... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/329828-making-a-bootable-high-sierra-usb-installer-entirely-from-scratch-in-windows-or-linux-mint-without-access-to-mac-or-app-store-installerapp/#findComment-2635802 Share on other sites More sharing options...
microtruong Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 I know this thread is old, but is there any way to fix the frozen boot screen? When I boot from the usb, it shows a frozen clover boot utility screen and i cant move around to select anything. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/329828-making-a-bootable-high-sierra-usb-installer-entirely-from-scratch-in-windows-or-linux-mint-without-access-to-mac-or-app-store-installerapp/#findComment-2638657 Share on other sites More sharing options...
betagta6apk Posted October 29, 2018 Share Posted October 29, 2018 The diversion was first reported by Rockstar Games on 25 October 2011.[55] They discharged its introduction trailer multi week later,[56] with an official public statement recognizing its setting.[57] Journalists noticed that the declaration gta 6 mobile Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/329828-making-a-bootable-high-sierra-usb-installer-entirely-from-scratch-in-windows-or-linux-mint-without-access-to-mac-or-app-store-installerapp/#findComment-2643729 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TineshSuresh Posted October 29, 2018 Share Posted October 29, 2018 Tq for this nice guide. I want to create usb for el capitan 10.11.6. I try to search the catalog for el capitan 10.11.6 but i did not find the the link. Can u help me? Thank u Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/329828-making-a-bootable-high-sierra-usb-installer-entirely-from-scratch-in-windows-or-linux-mint-without-access-to-mac-or-app-store-installerapp/#findComment-2643768 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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