Remember, this external drive will be formatted to turn into the Mavericks bootable installation volume, so don’t use an external drive that has important data or documents on it. Now is the time to connect the external drive or USB flash disk to the Mac that you want to convert into the installer, so plug it in. When Mavericks is done downloading you will see the screen below to begin the installation – stop – and do not continue yet if you want to make a USB install drive. If you’re using this guide for a re-downloaded version of Mavericks simply jump straight to step #3. Yes, you can easily re-download Mavericks even if you have already installed it. Here is the direct link to the Mac App Store if you haven’t downloaded it yet. Yes, OS X Mavericks is a free update for all Mac users. External hard drives work, as do USB flash drive volumes, and Thunderbolt disks. Requirements for this are basic, you will need the free OS X Mavericks installer on a Mac, and an 8GB external drive or greater that you don’t mind being formatted. We will show you exactly how to create a Mavericks boot installer in four simple steps, even if you have no experience with the command line you’ll be able to do it. Users will still need to turn to the Terminal to finish the job, but this time around only a single command needs to be executed, making it much easier and faster than the manual approach.
We covered this some time ago using a fairly technical process, but Apple must have realized that method was overly complex for many users and has included a much simpler method to create OS X Mavericks install media. OS X Mavericks is now available to everyone as a free download, and while you can update as many Macs as you want by downloading the installer repeatedly from the Mac App Store, a better option for many is to create a simple bootable USB install drive.
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