How to make your own bootable OS X 10.11 El Capitan USB install drive JournalBot Sep 29, 2015 Jump to latest Follow Reply ...

But there is a way around this obstacle, which Marek outlines in his thorough walkthrough of creating a bootable OS X Mavericks flash drive.

With Mac OS X Lion and a new piece of free software, it’s easier than ever to create a USB keychain that you can boot from.

Given below are the steps, showing how to make a Mountain Lion bootable USB/SD Card/DVD drive using the Lion DiskMaker. Must note that Lion DiskMaker will erase the volume or the drive you chose.

We’ve already covered how to do this from the command line (See How to create a bootable USB to install OS X), but I wanted to give those with a fear of the command line a way to do the same thing.

If you have an 8GB USB key and you can download the Apple OS X Lion installer from the Mac App Store, you can make your own bootable USB key. It's easier than you might think.

Has anyone tried dragging the “Install OS X Mavericks” App from the bootable USB Flash Drive w/ Recovery Partition, as outlined by TyWebb, back to the Mac’s Applications folder?

Step-by-step guide explaining how to make a bootable OS X El Capitan beta USB installer drive.