Steps to
install Mac 10.9 beta Mavericks
Step
1:
Check
for your Mac device, so that your device supports Mavericks.
The Mac OS X v10.9 Mavericks
supports the following Apple Macs devices:
·
iMac (Mid-2007 or later)
·
MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, Late 2008), (13-inch, Early 2009 or later)
·
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or later), (15-inch, Mid/Late 2007 or
later), (17-inch, Late 2007 or later)
·
MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)
·
Mac Mini (Early 2009 or later)
·
Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)
·
Xserve (Early 2009)
Step
2:
Download the Mac 10.9 Beta (Developer
preview 1) from this link
Step
3:
Make
a bootable disk, steps as follows,
o
Attach the USB drive to the Mac
and launch Disk Utility
o
Choose the USB drive from the
left side menu, click the “Partition” tab, select “1 Partition” from the drop
down menu, and then click the “Options” button to select “GUID” as the
partition type, click “OK” then click “Apply”
o
Launch Terminal to show hidden
files and relaunch the Finder using this defaults command string:
defaults write
com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE;\killall Finder;\say Files Revealed
o
Go to the /Applications/ folder
to locate the “Install OS X 10.9 Developer Preview.app” file
o
Right-click and choose “Show
Package Contents”, then open “Contents” and open “SharedSupport”
o
Double-click to mount
“InstallESD.dmg”
o
Open the mounted ‘OS X Install
ESD’ image, and right-click “BaseSystem.dmg” choosing “Open” to mount the image
(BaseSystem.dmg is invisible by default, thus why invisible files must be made
visible in the earlier step)
o
Go back to Disk Utility, then
select “BaseSystem.dmg” from the sidebar and then click the “Restore” tab
o
With “Source” set to
“BaseSystem.dmg”, set “Destination” to the USB drive by dragging the USB drive
into the box, then click “Restore” to begin – confirm that contents of the
drive will be erased
o When finished, go to Finder and
navigate within the newly created USB drive to System > Installation >
and delete the file (alias) located here named “Packages” – keep this window
open
o
Go back to the ‘OS X Install
ESD’ mounted drive, and drag & drop the “Packages” folder into the
/System/Installation/ directory you just deleted the Packages alias from, let
this large folder copy
o
Once that Packages folder is
finished copying to the drive, the USB drive is now ready to be booted from
which it can install OS X Mavericks from.
Step
4:
Yess!!!
Boot from bootable disk. Steps needed?
Here
are they……
o
With the USB drive attached, reboot
the Mac and hold down the Option key
o
Select the orange drive,
labelled “OS X Base System 1″ from the boot menu
o
Proceed with the installation
as usual
o
Enjoy OS X Mavericks!
` IT DOESN’T STOP THERE!!!!
You can also dual boot it along with OS X (10.8
r 10.7 r whatever you have installed!!)
Setting up a
dual-boot environment for OS X Mavericks and OS X 10.8 (or even 10.7
and 10.6 if you’re still running an older version of Mac OS X) is easy and
allows for a fresh installation of Mavericks to test and develop with. Because
the original OS X installation remains untouched, it’s also
the safest way to give Mavericks a trial run, which is perfect for running the
Developer Previews or if you’re just not sure you’re ready to run OS X 10.9
full time yet.
You don’t need another hard drive to be
able to do this, instead you utilize unused space on the existing drive to
create a new partition that runs the alternate OS. This process can be
completed from a Mavericks boot drive if desired, and using such an USB installer tends
to prevent any potential errors with Disk Utility (more on common errors you
may encounter at the very bottom of this article), but it is not necessary.
Be sure to back up the Mac before modifying the partition table, the easiest way to do that is by starting Time Machine immediately rather than waiting for the scheduled backup to take place. Let that complete before beginning.
Be sure to back up the Mac before modifying the partition table, the easiest way to do that is by starting Time Machine immediately rather than waiting for the scheduled backup to take place. Let that complete before beginning.
o
Partitioning & Installing
OS X Mavericks for a Dual Boot Mac
o
Launch Disk Utility, from
/Applications/Utilities/
o
Select the hard drive from the
left side menu, then choose the “Partition” tab
o
Click the [+] plus button to
add a new partition, size it to at least 12GB and name it something logical,
like “Mavericks”, then click “Apply”
o
Quit out of Disk Utility when
finished.
o
At the installation menu,
choose the “Mavericks” partition you created as the destination drive, then
choose Install (you may need to click “Show All Disks” for the partition to
show up)
o
OS X Mavericks will install
and, when finished, will boot directly into 10.9.
To switch booting between OS X versions,
restart the Mac and hold down the Option key, then choose whichever partition
you wish to start up from. You’ll notice the initial boot menu does
not display the OS X version, which is why it’s important to name the
partitions something fairly explanatory, like “Mavericks”. You can also change
the bootdisk by
going to “Startup Disk” within System Preferences and selecting the OS X
partition to use, the preference panel option will display the OS X versions
for each partition.
Guide by: cpandroidlover.blogspot.in
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