How to delete recovery partition mac install#

Right-click ~/Desktop/Mac OS X Base System RW.dmg.

In case a mistake is made, it would be a good idea to make a copy of the read/write version of the.

Double-click ~/Desktop/BaseSystem.dmg to mount it.

Mount BaseSystem.dmg to Make A Read/write Copy of it

Copy BaseSystem.dmg and BaseSystem.chunklist to the Desktop (both are hidden files).

Double-click InstallESD.dmg to mount it.

Run the command defaults write AppleShowAllFiles TRUE killall Finder.

Mount InstallESD.dmg to Find The Recovery HD Image

Copy SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg to ~/Desktop.

How to delete recovery partition mac install#

Right-click Install OS X Mountain Lion.app.

You will not be able to use Cmd+R to boot to your custom Recovery HD (unless you use the dmtest tool).

Use a test machine for this as you will be overwriting data and possibly creating partitions.

Familiarity with disk partitioning and mounting/un-mounting volumes.

Ability and confidence to enter commands in the Terminal, adjusting them to suit your environment, if necessary.

Xcode or another app to edit plist files.or skip a few steps and download dmtest ( Lion) ( Mavericks) from my Dropbox.Install OS X Mavericks.app or Install OS X Yosemite.app.Requirements For This Walkthrough Materials The example I use in this walkthrough is Calculator.app. However, this process seems to work for other 64-bit apps. At the end, I realized I probably wouldn’t be able to add this app to the Recovery HD until JAMF updates it to 64-bit. So this post is based off of this article and this feature request on JAMF Nation. Originally, I wanted to use Casper Imaging from the Recovery partition.