I booted back into my main install, and the target volume is completely empty.
As I rebooted it, a dialog warned me that I would be interrupting the download of Mac OS (looks like I was right, the installer was re-downloading the OS).
I got back home this evening to find it still stuck, so I canceled the installation. I left it there for some time as a similar thing happened when I installed 10.10, but after 10 minutes it had unjammed and completed. Has some policy changed at Apple, for which the external installer has to re-download the OS? Previous versions had the install files right in the stick itself.Īfter that enormous download the install got stuck with a full progress bar and the ETA being 5h43m, that was the ETA when the install process began. This never happened with any of the previous installs. Now, the installer boots fine and all, but right before beginning the actual install process, it asks me for my Apple ID and starts downloading tons of stuff - ETA is 5 hours. Extract OS X El Capitan Image File Install VirtualBox on Your PC Create a New Virtual Machine Edit Created Virtual Machine Execute VirtualBox code Install. For all intents and purposes, a vanilla installs main partition is identical to that of an official Apple computer.
Like with previous versions, I used the createinstallmedia on the installer partition to make the installer. A vanilla setup implies that the OS itself remains relatively untouched - and that the bulk of the Hackintosh-related kexts, patches, etc are contained on the EFI partition. I have a USB stick with a Clover partition that I used since 10.9 to install OS X.