Coming up on Hands on Tech, let's take a look at creating a bootable installer.

No, not for Windows, but for MacOS.

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Hello and welcome to Hands on Tech. This, of course, is the show where I, Micah Sargent,

take your tech questions and answer them. Yes, of course, is the show where I, Micah Sargent, take your tech

questions and answer them. Yes, that is what we do. We go hands-on with tech by answering your

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I read through, I do some research, and I get an answer for you.

This week's question comes in from Rick, who asks a simple question, but who will come to realize that it's a little bit complicated to go through the process.

Rick asks, since we can't do things like buying MacOS on a CD-ROM,

how can we make a clean installer of MacOS?

Fantastic question.

And it's a question that Apple has thoroughly documented.

But what's funny is I often find myself having to go back to the documentation to remember myself how to create a bootable installer for macOS because Apple sort of does its best to encourage you away from it.

So I guess that's discourage, discourage you from using a bootable installer. In fact, the first thing that you see, or the first sort of subhead that you see on the

support page talking about creating a bootable installer is the question, do you need a bootable

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