A bootable Mac OS X thumb drive comes in handy when you need to troubleshoot OS issues for yourself, your family, or your friends. It’s also extremely useful for keeping your basic setup consistent ...

On Monday Apple finally unveiled to the world the next iteration of OS X, Mavericks. A developer preview of the new operating system is available now as a Mac App Store download for registered ...

Photo: Ste Smith/Cult of Mac Turn any USB Drive into a Yosemite installer! There are plenty of reasons why you might need to make an OS X bootable drive. Maybe you’re updating numerous Macs in your ...

If you have multiple operating systems installed on your computer, or if you are trying to boot off various utility or other boot disks, you may run into problems where using an alternative or desired ...

Bootable disc image files may contain all the data necessary to create a disc from which computers can boot, but if you want them to work, you can't just burn them to a disc the way you would regular ...

Despite Apple’s best efforts, you can make a bootable install disk of Mac OS X Lion… but it’s not for the faint-hearted, or those who aren’t tech inclined. Luckily, there’s an even easier way to make ...

I think the reason we haven't heard many complaints about the doing away of physical media is exactly this. As long as power users can make their own offline media, there's nothing to complain about.

It's handy to have an external, bootable macOS Ventura installer, but you practically have to fight Apple to make one. Here's what you have to do. In Apple's ideal world, you let your Mac update ...

The OS X boot arguments are useful for troubleshooting problems with system startup and how the system behaves when running. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

When the computer is misbehaving and you realize that your trusty anti-virus was almost blind against attacks, the only thing left to do is to format, and reinstall the operating system. Be it Mac OS ...