what am I supposed to do when attempting to make Mac OS Ventura a bootable installer to recover my Mac that wiped the software and terminal says that the installer pack I downloaded from the App Store docent seem to be valid im trying to avoid installing windows please help
1 - All the Instructions in Create a bootable installer for macOS - Apple Support (CA) are predicated on the Full Version of Ventura ( about 12.19 GB ) is located in the Applications Folder of this computer
2 - Have rarely seen this but has occurred where the download is presented as a " Stub " installer of about a few MBs in size.
3 -Suggest checking what size the " Install Ventura " Application is reporting
4 - If it is indeed the " Stub " it will not work for your purposes
5 - Use the Terminal Command below to manually download the Full Version. Note - without the Quotation Marks
" softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 13.0 "
One of the two requirements to create a bootable installer is that you will need a Mac running the particular version of macOS that you want to create an installer for. So, in this case, you would need an operational Mac running macOS Ventura. This is covered in the support article you arrived here from. Is this the case here?
Ok, thanks for that. Now, at what step on the support article does the process fail? Accessing the installer from the Apple Store, downloading it, or at some other point? You mentioned that the installer downloaded, but doesn't appear to be valid ... is that correct?
If so, look to see if there are any other installers in the /Applications folder. If there are, delete them and try downloading again.
As I’m in terminal trying to create install media it fails that portion before I unmount the drive and convert the file over to an iso
i format the drive to match the correct Mac journal format and then I mount it to the correct destination then run the create install media command and bam it fails with the error message
Not sure why this is happening. Did you try downloading the installer again as I mentioned?
FWIW, I'm going through the process and i'm at the downloading stage. I will try following the support article to see if I run into the same issue. Might be a while before I can post back. In the mean time, if someone else here has some suggestions, hopefully they will chime in and offer them to you.
Ok, just verified that the steps in the support article worked for me. As P. Phillips has mentioned, be sure that you have downloaded the full Ventura installer and it is located in the /Applications folder before running the command in the Terminal.
This is the case the Mac I borrowed is using the most current version of Ventura
Self Correction ☺️
This works and Just Tested here
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Ventura.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled
Error relating to the make install media command
