2019 is one of the great years for computer users and smartphones user. Because the world of technology is now in progress, as we know that in 2019 Apple Inc announced in world developers conference, macOS Catalina. Therefore, besides macOS Catalina announced iOS 13 with its significant new features. And with the announcing of macOS Catalina Microsoft also announced its new updates for the public, Windows 10 new features, with the same equality of macOS Catalina or macOS Mojave Dark Look and Light Look. And for Samsung smartphones, they announced the Android P version. However, we got the idea to install macOS Catalina 10.15 on VirtualBox and VMware. And here I will show you How to Create a macOS Catalina USB Drive installer. The way of creating a macOS Catalina USB installer is easy the same as macOS Mojave.

Create macOS Catalina USB Installer

Before you do anything once you launch the Install macOS Catalina app - choose the window menu, show log (Command L) then show all logs (Command 3) After a failed install, you can look at /var/log/install.log and see where it's getting stuck or at least know the last few things it has done before it gets bogged down.
Also, the new OS, Catalina, features Apple Arcade, improved security, and privacy, better accessibility for the disabled, more applications, Find My Mac feature, and many more. However, one problem users tend to face often with new Operating System releases is how to download and install them.

However, the macOS Catalina version for the operating system is still not released for the public. But they can upgrade there macOS Mojave version directly through the internet into macOS Catalina 10.15. In July 2019 they will release the full version for Macintosh users. By the way, while installing any kind of operating system on a computer you need a Bootable USB Drive, and here I will show you the easiest way just follow the steps and read the article.

As you know there are different kinds of creating macOS Catalina 10.15 USB Drive. But one of the easiest ways to create Bootable USB using Terminal on macOS, whether you can use Disk Utility. I recommend you to choose Disk Utility because the procedure is a bit easy. And using Terminal is somehow complicated.

Create macOS Catalina USB Installer – System requirements of macOS Catalina 10.15

Before checking macOS Catalina on your system, there are some good points to know about your Mac computer version. However, macOS Catalina is heavy and for its installation, you need a nice computer, with high graphics, Processor, and RAM. Below I will declare some Mac computers that you can install macOS Catalina 10.15 on it.

MacBook: 2015 or newer
MacBook: Air, MacBook Pro 2012 or newer
Mac Mini: Late 2012 or newer
iMac: 2012 or newer
iMac Pro: All models can support macOS Catalina 10.15
Mac Pro: 2013 or newer

With the virtual machine configured, you’re ready to install macOS Catalina entirely on your computer, so let’s get started. From the VMware, select the Catalina and click Power on the virtual machine. Power on This Virtual Machine. Wait a few moments since this is the first time virtual machine booting.

The great changes that come on macOS Catalina 10.15 Beta are:

Catalyst
Gatekeeper
Voice Control
Sidebar
Changes in Application
iTunes
Find My Mac
Reminders
Removed Components

macOS Catalina creating USB Drive required files:

At least 16 GB USB drive or more than 16 GB
macOS Catalina 10.15 image file

By the way, if you don’t know the ways of installing macOS Catalina on VirtualBox and VMware Player. However, You can also check the below links and download macOS Catalina 10.15 Virtual machine images.

Download macOS Catalina 10.15 Beta 1

Step #1. Enter to Apple Developer, and go ahead for download macOS Catalina or if you are not a member of Apple developer. Then go ahead and create an account to download macOS Catalina 10.15 Beta 1.
Step #2. After signing in Apple Developer, go ahead and under featured click on download link.
Step #3. After that, download is finished get start

In this case, you have gone through Apple Developer to download the latest update of macOS Catalina. Therefore, from Apple Developer you can use upgrading from macOS Mojave to macOS Catalina 10.15. Remember one thing upgrading can be risky for you so, I suggest to have a backup of your important files. However, in the next step you must have a clean installation of macOS Catalina on your computer. For that, you need a Bootable created USB. And insert the USB drive to your computer, then install macOS Catalina and enjoy using the new and fresh operating system.

How to create macOS Catalina USB Installer

Step #1. Insert the USB drive to your computer.
Step #2. I mentioned above also that the process of creating a macOS Catalina USB drive with Disk Utility is easy. Therefore, go to the search bar and type there “Disk Utility”. Erase USB drive with “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)” then complete the process of Disk Utility for macOS Catalina USB Drive.

Format the USB Drive

After the USB Drive, formatted click Done

Click Done

Now navigate to search spotlight and type “Terminal” then hit enter.

When the terminal opened copy the below command and paste into the terminal then press enter. The process of creating will take some minute, wait until it should complete 100%. When it completed close the terminal window.

Copy the command

Once the Bootable USB drive is created, open the clover configurator. With the clover configurator, you need to mount the EFI partition. When the clover configurator opened on the left-handed click on “Mount EFI”, then Mount the EFI on install macOS 10.15 Beta. Click on “Mount Partition” then type the password and click OK.

Mount Partition

Bottom Line

By the way, that’s all about How to create a macOS Catalina USB Installer. And the process of creating macOS Catalina Beta USB Installer is easy, and I also explained that step by step. Therefore, if you faced any kind of problem feel free and comment below. Give us feedback and subscribe to our Blog.

Attempting to download macOS Catalina from the Mac App Store you may find that a small version of the “Install macOS Catalina.app” file downloads to the “Applications” folder, rather than the complete 8.1 GB installer file.

The tiny (just tens of megabytes) incomplete installer requires an internet connection during usage to download the rest of the Catalina update files. Additionally, it does not allow to create a macOS Catalina USB installer drive for use on multiple computers.

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to download the complete “Install macOS Catalina.app” file from Apple server using the “macOS Catalina Patcher” app instead of via the Mac App Store.

A similar mini-installer issue occurred previously with some users getting a tiny incomplete macOS High Sierra installer and macOS Mojave installer too and I covered a similar workaround here and here to download the complete installer file from Apple server.

About the app

In this workaround, we’re going to use the macOS Catalina Patcher app from the dosdude1.com. This app is intended for those with unsupported Macs and Hackintosh users, but any Mac user can use the app to be able to download the complete macOS Catalina installer file from Apple server. For our purposes in this particular walkthrough, we will use the app only to download the complete installer file.

Note! This method relies on a third party app from an unverified third party source. If you are not comfortable with using unvetted and unverified software, do not follow this process.

Let’s begin

Downloading the complete “Install macOS Catalina.app” file from Apple server using the “macOS Catalina Patcher” app is a really easy process. Now, step by step guide.

Go to the official website of the “macOS Catalina Patcher” app here and download the app.

The download link is labeled as “Download Latest Version” on that page.

Launch the “macOS Catalina Patcher” app.

Note! By default, macOS preventing apps from unidentified developers or sources from being launched. So you most likely will get an alert message that says: “macOS Catalina Patcher.app can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer”. To allow ju

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