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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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On 2015-09-28, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> On 15-09-28 14:26, Jolly Roger wrote:
>
>> Yeah. I'm lying, and so is everyone else:
>> 
>> <http://www.macworld.com/article/1161069/make_a_bootable_lion_installer.html>
>> 
>> Believe what you want...
>
>
> I believe I provided a listing of the InstallESD.dmg root. It has no
> operating system.
>
> Has it ever occured to you that things may have changed since Lion (for
> which the above article is for) ?

Has it occurred to you that if you are making an install USB stick for a
later operating system, there's no reason to use InstallESD.dmg at all?
In this thread we have talked about *several* operating systems, but you
seem to be fixated on the method for only some of them. To create an
install USB stick for Yosemite, you use the createinstallmedia
command-line tool, as has already been mentioned.

> My experience is that the OS X Base System.dmg (contained inside OS X
> InstallESD.dmg) works and contains the bootable environment for
> Yosemite.

For Yosemite.

> It is your right to dismiss it. And since your JR, you will
> dismiss it because that is all you do.

Grow up.

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