Why does the command line for Ventura 13.2 not work for creating a bootable drive? Hear what I got. "sudo: /Applications/Install macOS Ventura.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia: command not found"
MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 13.2
What OS version are you running, if not Ventura, you normally get a “stub” installer that downloads the files from Apple’s servers when installing. You can’t make a bootable installer from that, and that’s the error you would get.
However, I've seen at least one other post where everything looked correct, but got that error.
dvmorris1 wrote:
Why does the command line for Ventura 13.2 not work for creating a bootable drive? Hear what I got. "sudo: /Applications/Install macOS Ventura.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia: command not found"
One thing that's certain to give you the "command not found" error is if you don't have the "Install macOS Ventura" app in the Applications folder.
The above is what I got in Terminal once I entered my password correctly.
The correct command…
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Ventura.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MyVolume
"MyVolume" should be the name of the flash drive.
? The command as posted is incorrect.
That’s not the command, it is the response to entering the command.
The command not found error doesn’t print the arguments, and leaving out arguments won’t generate command not found.
Poor wording on my part.
Brilliant 👍 - the " Stub " returns as it related to the OP possible issue
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Why does the command line for Ventura not work for creating a bootable drive?
