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Installer Entirely From Scratch in Windows

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By fusion71au, November 20, 2017 in Tutorials (The Genius Bar)
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Making a High Sierra USB Installer Entirely From
Scratch in Windows
This is a proof of concept tutorial, to show it's possible to create a vanilla High Sierra
installer, entirely from scratch, in Windows (even without App Store downloaded
"Install macOS High Sierra.app" from a real Mac ). @PikeRAlpha's link to Apple's
Gurus
Software Catalog provides us with all the URLs necessary to download the needed
les directly from Apple instead of some dubious source from the internet...

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Pre-Requisites
1. 8GB or larger USB drive

2. Boot Disk Utility v2.1.2017rev021b from @CVAD
3. TransMac (free 15 day trial)
4. Paragon Hard Disk Manager Free
Download Installer Files Directly from Apple

1) Browse Apple's Regular Software Catalog and nd the URLs to download the
following 6 installer les...
1. BaseSystem.dmg
2. BaseSystem.chunklist
3. InstallInfo.plist
4. InstallESDDmg.pkg
5. AppleDiagnostics.dmg
6. AppleDiagnostics.chunklist
(Hint - search page for "InstallESD" to nd its URL and others nearby)
to a folder named "SharedSupport" on your Windows NTFS drive. A browser

download manager (eg Chrono for Chrome, dTA for FireFox) is handy since InstallESD
is >4GB ---> allows you to pause/resume interrupted download...
2) Rename InstallESDDmg.pkg to InstallESD.dmg
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3) Edit InstallInfo.plist with WordPad/text editor to remove the chunklistURL and
chunklistid keys for InstallESD, and renaming it from InstallESDDmg.pkg to
InstallESD.dmg (example of edited le attached to this post)...
 Hide contents

Note: You can verify the SHA1 checksum of your InstallESD.dmg and BaseSystem.dmg with the
correct ones at this website.
Boot Disk Utility to format the Installer USB and Restore OS X

Base System HFS partition
1. Format USB with BDU & latest Clover ---> creates boot les in CLOVER partition +
second FAT partition
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2. Extract 4.hfs from \SharedSupport\BaseSystem.dmg with BDU --> save to it's local
folder
 Hide contents

3. Restore 4.hfs to USB second partition with BDU ---> 2nd partition becomes
bootable "OS X Base System"
 Hide contents

Paragon Hard Disk Manager to extend HFS Partition to its Full
Extent
Open Paragon Partition Manager Free and resize the second partition of the USB drive to
the full size allowed. Don't forget to apply the changes at the end...
 Hide contents

Transmac to Copy "SharedSupport" folder to OS X Base System
1. Open the TransMac program and navigate to the HFS+ Volume/Install macOS High
Sierra.app/Contents folder. Right click anywhere in the empty space on the RHS pane
and select "Copy Here"...
 Hide contents

2. In the next stage, select the "SharedSupport" folder we created above as the "Files
and Folders to be copied to the Mac Volume"...
 Hide contents

Clover Settings
Clover configuration is required now. The default config.plist (in the Clover FAT32 partition of
the USB) maybe sufficient to boot your machine if you’re lucky. If not, look at the Clover
Wiki, Clover Instructions and Clover Configuration Thread for pointers and edit
/EFI/Clover/config.plist accordingly with Wordpad or Notepad.
The location of the important configuration files for Clover are summarized below
con g.plist--->EFI/CLOVER folder
DSDT.aml with or without SSDT.aml--->EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched (don't need one if your DSDT is auto patched
by Clover in con g.plist)
Kexts eg FakeSMC, NullCPUPowerManagement --->EFI/CLOVER/kexts/<osx version> or /Other. NB
BootDiskUtility by default already has FakeSMC.kext installed here. You may need to add
VoodooPS2Controller for your laptop keyboard/trackpad to work.
If UEFI booting, you will most likely need one of the OsxAptioFixDrv-64 drivers copied from
/EFI/CLOVER/drivers-off/drivers64UEFI to /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI.
If you want to use the installer to run High Sierra in Windows on VMware, you can
follow my guide to set up the Virtual Machine and replace Clover's default con g with
EFI_Clover for VMware (which is compatible to run in VMware). In the screenshots
below, I have attached the USB Installer (in this case PhysicalDrive7) to my macOS
Virtual Machine. Reboot the system to the USB installer to install High Sierra ...
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What happens if we don't have access to TransMac or Paragon

Hard Disk Manager?
Not a problem, as long as we get "OS X Base System" bootable, we can launch
terminal from the Utilities Menu to copy the SharedSupport folder over to the Installer
app. In essence, we will build the full installer app = 5GB+ on the target HD eg
"Macintosh HD", by copying both the "small" installer app = 15MB (on "OS X Base
System") and the SharedSupport folder from the NTFS volume (mounted in this
example on /Volumes/DATA)...
-bash-3.2# cd /
-bash-3.2# cp -R Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app /Volumes/Macin
-bash-3.2# cp -R /Volumes/DATA/SharedSupport /Volumes/Macintosh\

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...then start installation with the startosinstall utility...
-bash-3.2# /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.ap

The above ste ps can be autom ate d with the attache d "startosinstall.com m and" script, which
will asse m ble "Install m acO S High Sie rra.app " on "Macintosh HD" and launch the
startosinstall utility targeting the "Macintosh HD" volume. Copy/download to
"Macintosh HD", then run in terminal (after attaching DATA USB with /Shared Support
folder)...
cd "/Volumes/Macintosh HD"
chmod +x startosinstall.command
./startosinstall.command
startosinstall.command.zip
InstallInfo.plist_edited_10.13.2.zip
InstallInfo.plist_edited_10.13.3.zip
InstallInfo.plist_edted_10.13.4.zip
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Prerequisites

Gurus 2. Linux Mint (virtualized is also OK, tested with Mint 17.3 & 18.1) and the
following installed packages: hfsplus, hfsprogs, gparted, gdisk, p7zip and
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Download Installer Files Directly from Apple and Clover from
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1) Open terminal, create SharedSupport folder in ~/Downloads
mkdir ~/Downloads/SharedSupport
1. BaseSystem.dmg
(Hint - search page for "InstallESD" to nd its URL and others nearby)
into ~/Downloads/SharedSupport. A browser download manager (eg Chrono for

Chrome, dTA for FireFox) is handy since InstallESD is >4GB ---> allows you to
pause/resume interrupted download...
mv ~/Downloads/SharedSupport/InstallESDDmg.pkg ~/Downloads/Share
4) Edit InstallInfo.plist with a text editor to remove the chunklistURL and chunklistid
keys for InstallESD, and renaming it from InstallESDDmg.pkg to InstallESD.dmg
(example of edited le attached to post#1)...
Note: You can verify the SHA1 checksum of your InstallESD.dmg and
BaseSystem.dmg with the correct ones at this website.
5) If you don't already have Clover installed, download the latest Clover.iso from
SourceForge. Extract the EFI folder to ~/Downloads...

6) Determine the size of the "OS X Base System" HFS partition by listing contents of
BaseSystem.dmg with 7z l command. Here, 4.hfs=2008506368 bytes=1915.5 MB
(1024x1024 bytes per MB) or 3922864 sectors (512 bytes per sector)...
Prepare USB with GParted and Restore OS X Base System with

dmg2img
1) Open GParted. In this example, I have an 8GB installer disk, /dev/sdb, initialized as
GPT from Device Menu...

2) Create the following 2 new partitions
Part 1 200MB FAT32 labelled EFI
Part 2 5817MB HFS+ labelled Installer_App
Leave 2174MB free for OS X Base System restore (=1916+129+129 MB of loader
space before and after to keep Apple's Disk Utility happy)

3) Use gdisk to set correct partition type, name and attributes for the EFI System
Partition and create new sdb3 for OS X Base System...

4) Open Terminal, type lsblk to show the system's attached disks, partitions and their
mount points...

5) Change directory to access the SharedSupport les in ~/Downloads
cd ~/Downloads/SharedSupport
6) Type dmg2img -l BaseSystem.dmg to list the "partitions" in the compressed disk
image le "BaseSystem.dmg"...

7) Use the command sudo dmg2img -v -i BaseSystem.dmg -p 4 -o /dev/sdb3 to write
the 4.hfs image to your "OS X Base System" volume ie sdb3 partition.

8) Create mounting folders in /media/your_username
sudo mkdir /media/fusion71au/EFI

sudo mkdir /media/fusion71au/Installer_App
9) Mount the Installer_App volume (corresponding to sdb2) and copy the
SharedSupport folder to its root ...
sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /media/fusion71au/Installer_App

sudo cp -R ~/Downloads/SharedSupport /media/fusion71au/Installer
10) Mount the EFI partition, sdb1, and copy the EFI folder containing Clover into it...
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/fusion71au/EFI

sudo cp -R ~/Downloads/EFI /media/fusion71au/EFI/
Clover Settings
Clover configuration is required now. The default config.plist (in the EFI partition, /EFI/Clover
folder of the USB) maybe sufficient to boot your machine if you’re lucky. If not, look at the
Clover Wiki, Clover Instructions and Clover Configuration Thread for pointers and edit
/EFI/Clover/config.plist accordingly with a text editor.
DSDT.aml with or without SSDT.aml--->EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched (don't need one if your DSDT is auto patched
by Clover in con g.plist)
Kexts eg FakeSMC, NullCPUPowerManagement --->EFI/CLOVER/kexts/<osx version> or /Other. You may need
to add VoodooPS2Controller for your laptop keyboard/trackpad to work.
If legacy booting, you need to install legacy boot sectors on the drive (boot0af, boot1f32 and boot6). There is an
automated install for this here by @StarBrilliant
If UEFI booting, you will most likely need one of the OsxAptioFixDrv-64 drivers copied from /EFI/CLOVER/drivers-
off/drivers64UEFI to /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI.
Hint: For newbs, you don't necessarily need Clover to boot the installer in a VMware virtual machine. Just attach the
installer (without Clover) to a macOS guest running on a VMware Windows host (patched with @Donk's unlocker program
- to create the VM guest, see my VMware guide).
Boot to OS X Base System, build "Install macOS High Sierra.app"

then startosinstall in Terminal
1) Unmount sdb1 & sdb2,
sudo umount /dev/sdb1

sudo umount /dev/sdb2
then reboot your system to the USB Installer using the system's boot device selection
key eg F12 for Gigabyte motherboards, F8 for ASUS motherboards, F11 for
ASrock motherboards ...

2) Launch Disk Utility from the macOS Utilities main screen and prepare the target
hard disk to install High Sierra eg "Macintosh HD", erase/formatted as HFS+j. Hint -
click View Menu to Show All Devices...

3) Launch terminal from the macOS Utilities main screen, Utilities Menu...

4) Type the following commands to assemble the full "Install macOS High Sierra.app"
on the Installer_App volume...
-bash-3.2# cd /
-bash-3.2# cp -R Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app /Volumes/Insta
-bash-3.2# mv /Volumes/Installer_App/SharedSupport /Volumes/Inst
Terminal Hints:
Type the rst few characters of a path, then press <Tab> key ---> rest of the path will autocomplete.
Pressing the <up> arrow key will duplicate the previous command entered into terminal.
5) Start installation with the startosinstall utility in Terminal...
-bash-3.2# /Volumes/Installer_App/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.ap
where "Macintosh HD" is the target volume to install High Sierra in this example...

Steps 4 and 5 can be automated with the attached "startosinstall.command" script, which will assemble "Install macOS
High Sierra.app" on the "Installer_App" partition of the USB and launch the startosinstall utility targeting the "Macintosh HD"
volume. Copy/download to Installer_App volume, then run in terminal...
cd /Volumes/Installer_App
startosinstall.command.zip
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Win32 Disk Imager, Paragon Partition Manager and gdisk instead of MBR using
@CVAD's Boot Disk Utility.

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Procedure
1) Convert BaseSystem.dmg to BaseSystem.img with dmg2img.exe:
In command prompt, type
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2) Open BaseSystem.img in Win32 Disk Imager ---> write to USB drive


3) Launch Paragon PM and
move HFS+ OS X Base System volume to the right so 200MB free space created
at the start of the drive
create new 200MB FAT32 partition at the start of the drive, labelled EFI
extend HFS+ OS X Base System volume to right (but leave approx 130MB free
space at end)

4) Set correct name, type and partition attribute for EFI System Partition with gdisk in
command prompt window.


Final result ...
5) Open TransMac to copy downloaded les in /SharedSupport folder from NTFS
Windows drive to /Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents on "OS X Base System"
HFS volume
6) Install Clover in Windows - see guide here .

Post#1 is for UEFI systems ---> only need to copy CLOVER folder into /EFI on the EFI
System Partition + replace /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.e with Clover's BOOTX64.e .

Post#3 for legacy BIOS systems ---> need to also install boot sectors (boot0af,
boot1f32 in MBR/PBR with Bootice Program) and boot6 or boot7 in the root / of the
EFI partition.

Note: the MBR installer made with @CVAD's Boot Disk Utility already has legacy boot
sectors for Clover installed ---> should work with BOTH legacy and UEFI systems.
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@PikeRAlpha's link to Apple's Software Catalog provides us with all the URLs
necessary to download the needed les directly from Apple instead of some
dubious source from the internet...

Apple SW Catalog URLs Pike's Universum.png
Pre-Requisites

2. Boot Disk Utility v2.1.2017rev021b from @CVAD
3. TransMac (free 15 day trial)
4. Paragon Hard Disk Manager Free

Download Installer Files Directly from Apple
1. BaseSystem.dmg
(Hint - search page for "InstallESD" to nd its URL and others

nearby)
Apple SW Catalog Find InstallESD in browser.png

to a folder named "SharedSupport" on your Windows NTFS drive. A browser
download manager (eg Chrono for Chrome, dTA for FireFox) is handy since
InstallESD is >4GB ---> allows you to pause/resume interrupted download...

Apple SW Catalog List of Download Manager Downloads.png


3) Edit InstallInfo.plist with WordPad/text editor to remove the chunklistURL and
chunklistid keys for InstallESD, and renaming it from InstallESDDmg.pkg to
InstallESD.dmg (example of edited le attached to this post)...


Boot Disk Utility to format the Installer USB and Restore OS X
Base System HFS partition
1. Format USB with BDU & latest Clover ---> creates boot les in CLOVER
partition + second FAT partition


2. Extract 4.hfs from \SharedSupport\BaseSystem.dmg with BDU --> save to it's
local folder


3. Restore 4.hfs to USB second partition with BDU ---> 2nd partition becomes
bootable "OS X Base System"


Paragon Hard Disk Manager to extend HFS Partition to its
Full Extent
Open Paragon Partition Manager Free and resize the second partition of the USB drive
to the full size allowed. Don't forget to apply the changes at the end...


Transmac to Copy "SharedSupport" folder to OS X Base
System
1. Open the TransMac program and navigate to the HFS+ Volume/Install macOS
High Sierra.app/Contents folder. Right click anywhere in the empty space on the
RHS pane and select "Copy Here"...


2. In the next stage, select the "SharedSupport" folder we created above as the
"Files and Folders to be copied to the Mac Volume"...


Clover Settings
Clover configuration is required now. The default config.plist (in the Clover FAT32
partition of the USB) maybe sufficient to boot your machine if you’re lucky. If not, look
at the Clover Wiki, Clover Instructions and Clover Configuration Thread for pointers and
edit /EFI/Clover/config.plist accordingly with Wordpad or Notepad.

DSDT.aml with or without SSDT.aml--->EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched (don't need one if your DSDT is auto
patched by Clover in con g.plist)
Kexts eg FakeSMC, NullCPUPowerManagement --->EFI/CLOVER/kexts/<osx version> or /Other. NB
BootDiskUtility by default already has FakeSMC.kext installed here. You may need to add
VoodooPS2Controller for your laptop keyboard/trackpad to work.
If UEFI booting, you will most likely need one of the OsxAptioFixDrv-64 drivers copied from
/EFI/CLOVER/drivers-off/drivers64UEFI to /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI.

If you want to use the installer to run High Sierra in Windows on VMware, you
can follow my guide to set up the Virtual Machine and replace Clover's default
con g with EFI_Clover for VMware (which is compatible to run in VMware). In
the screenshots below, I have attached the USB Installer (in this case
PhysicalDrive7) to my macOS Virtual Machine. Reboot the system to the USB
installer to install High Sierra ...


What happens if we don't have access to TransMac or
Paragon Hard Disk Manager?
Not a problem, as long as we get "OS X Base System" bootable, we can launch
terminal from the Utilities Menu to copy the SharedSupport folder over to the
Installer app. In essence, we will build the full installer app = 5GB+ on the target
HD eg "Macintosh HD", by copying both the "small" installer app = 15MB (on "OS
X Base System") and the SharedSupport folder from the NTFS volume (mounted
in this example on /Volumes/DATA)...
-bash-3.2# cd /
-bash-3.2# cp -R Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app /Volumes/M
-bash-3.2# cp -R /Volumes/DATA/SharedSupport /Volumes/Macint

...then start installation with the startosinstall utility...
-bash-3.2# /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sier

The above ste ps can be autom ate d with the attache d "startosinstall.com m and" script,
which will asse m ble "Install m acO S High Sie rra.app " on "Macintosh HD" and launch
the startosinstall utility targeting the "Macintosh HD" volume. Copy/download to
"Macintosh HD", then run in terminal (after attaching DATA USB with /Shared
Support folder)...
cd "/Volumes/Macintosh HD"

I tried it and it all went well. I made a image from the usb and it successfully booted a
virtual box vm. After Installer did copied les to the drive it went for a reboot. after that
I booted it with clover, Installer showed up again to continue installation but suddenly
showed this error:
macOS could not be installed on your computer
The path /System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg appears to be missing or
damaged.
Quit the installer to restart your computer and try again.

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The path /System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg appears to be missing

or damaged.
Quit the installer to restart your computer and try again.

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Gender: Male First, verify the SHA1 checksum of your InstallESD.dmg and BaseSystem.dmg with
the correct ones at this website.

Eg for "Install macOS High Sierra.app" 10.13.2_17C88, SHA1 in Terminal...
fusion71aus-iMac:~ fusion71au$ shasum /Applications/Install\ mac

49e336085247331ea6033ebd3598a827caa6596e /Applications/Install
fusion71aus-iMac:~ fusion71au$ shasum /Applications/Install\ mac
209d6a382026115a30c79f0825aec1b7a4cdb2dd /Applications/Install
The OSInstall.mpkg error can sometimes be due to "stale data" in /macOS Install Data
(time stamp/IAEndDate in OSInstallAttr.plist too old). Easiest to erase target drive
and start again...

If using VirtualBox, follow instructions exactly as per post#75.

If using VMware, follow instructions as per post#41.
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there are a couple links for each le, are they the same les? thanks
One of them is the chunklist and the other is a dmg le so they are different.
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One of them is the chunklist and the other is a dmg le so they are different.
no, no, when you do a search on the xml to Apple's les there are two links for each of
the sox les, are they redundancy links?
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1. 8GB or larger USB drive

Download Installer Files Directly from Apple

to a folder named "SharedSupport" on your Windows NTFS drive. A browser

Boot Disk Utility to format the Installer USB and Restore OS X

con g.plist--->EFI/CLOVER folder

by Clover in con g.plist)

Kexts eg FakeSMC, NullCPUPowerManagement --->EFI/CLOVER/kexts/<osx version> or /Other. NB

VoodooPS2Controller for your laptop keyboard/trackpad to work.

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What happens if we don't have access to TransMac or Paragon

-bash-3.2# /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.ap

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fusion71au Posted November 23, 2017 Report post 

1. 8GB or larger USB drive

into ~/Downloads/SharedSupport. A browser download manager (eg Chrono for

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Prepare USB with GParted and Restore OS X Base System with

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sudo mkdir /media/fusion71au/EFI

sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /media/fusion71au/Installer_App

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/fusion71au/EFI

con g.plist--->EFI/CLOVER folder

by Clover in con g.plist)

Kexts eg FakeSMC, NullCPUPowerManagement --->EFI/CLOVER/kexts/<osx version> or /Other. You may need

to add VoodooPS2Controller for your laptop keyboard/trackpad to work.

automated install for this here by @StarBrilliant

- to create the VM guest, see my VMware guide).

Boot to OS X Base System, build "Install macOS High Sierra.app"

sudo umount /dev/sdb1

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5) Start installation with the startosinstall utility in Terminal...

-bash-3.2# /Volumes/Installer_App/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.ap

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volume. Copy/download to Installer_App volume, then run in terminal...

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