How to Burn OS X Yosemite to a USB Flash Drive

Here’s how to burn Yosemite to a USB drive instead.

Insert an 8GB (or larger) flash drive.

Here’s what you better do:

Download the Yosemite installer, if you haven’t already.

Insert an 8GB (or larger) flash drive, and give it a name.

For this tutorial, we’ve named itUntitled.

see to it the drive is formatted OS X Extended (Journaled).

If it isn’t, hop into Disk Utility and format it so it is.

Open up the Terminal, either through spotlight or by double-clicking on it in /Applications/Utilities.

Let the command work its magic.

Don’t interrupt it until you see the final line that saysDonebefore it returns you to the prompt.

This could take as long as a half hour, so be patient!

Check outthis Macworld articlefor other options if the above doesn’t work for you.