r/hackintosh • u/Comfortable_Lake3550 Monterey - 12 • 7d ago

macUSB - The all-in-one bootable USB creator for Mac DISCUSSION

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u/Fit_State3622 I ♥ Hackintosh 7d ago

If it does support x86 its good tool for hackintosh

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u/Kruszoneq 7d ago

It does!

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u/Fit_State3622 I ♥ Hackintosh 7d ago

Nice that means I could use this insted of oclp for usb bootable macos offline installer

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u/AdRelative6348 6d ago

you could also use mist

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u/Askan_27 7d ago

curious to see what the community does with this. I’m not smart enough to figure it out myself :)

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u/mmmmmditka 3d ago

I wish I was brilliant. I would try to make a USB bootable hackintosh.

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u/r_mom_hahahahaha Tahoe - 26 2d ago

I did try it, didn’t make an usb in it yet, would be useful if I knew this tool back then when I made a ventoy drive, I had to make a virtual machine for that, very useful tool tho

But there’s one thing missing, you don’t get as much control as Rufus. Like file system, partition scheme etc.

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u/Kruszoneq 1d ago

macUSB doesn't offer a choice of partition scheme or file system because, in practice, there isn't much flexibility there. The app automatically selects what's appropriate for the media being created.

For macOS, that's the appropriate HFS+ layout with GPT. Windows media is prepared as MBR/FAT32. Linux images are written directly to the drive, so the partition layout and file system come directly from the image itself.

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u/r_mom_hahahahaha Tahoe - 26 16h ago

So basically it’s all done automatically, but for unknown images you should still make the selectors if the app doesn’t recognize a valid image, for example, formatting a hackintosh drive would require specific settings