- Download El Capitan installation from the App store. It might complain that you already have it installed but download it anyway. It will be downloaded to /Applications and be named Install OS X El Capitan.app
- Create a bootable image from the El Capitan installer on a USB stick larger than 6GB. In a terminal run:
where MyVolume is the name of your USB stick. Change this to match the name of your USB stick.
I would like to install El Capitan on a Sandisk 128 GB Extreme Pro flash drive to use an alternate startup disk for my Mac Pro or MacBook Pro. I have found instructions online to make an El Capitan Installer out of the flash drive but the only thing you can do with it after that is to use it to install OS X on other drives. Apple MMGG2LL/A MacBook Air 13.3-Inch Laptop (1.6 GHz Intel Core i5, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, Mac OS X V10.11 El Capitan), Silver (Renewed) 3.9 out of 5 stars 149 Amazon Renewed. Oct 23, 2015 Step 5: Terminal will prompt for Root password, enter the root password and press enter.USB Disk formatting will start now followed by the copying of files required to create bootable os x el capitan usb drive. It will take 5 to 10 minutes maximum and the Bootable USB Disk of OS X El Capitan will be ready for use.
Long overdue. Maybe now they can fix the green button problem by making it maximize to full available screen while still showing the dock and file menu.
- Physically install SSD into the target laptop.
- Insert the El Capitan USB stick into the target laptop and power up. (This might take a while.)
- When the menu finally turns up, choose Disk Utility and format the SSD as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with a unique name.
- Once complete, exit from Disk Utility and return the main menu.
- Choose to Install OS X on the formatted SSD.
- Follow the prompts until El Capitan is installed.
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Here’s link to a video on how to physically install the SSD as well as run the software installation.
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Sandisk Ssd In Macbook Pro
If you’d rather install Yosemite on the SSD then follow the How to Install Yosemite on a New SSD guide.