

Now you should be able to proceed with the "createinstallmedia" instructions in the original Apple article (assuming Apple fixed the Sierra installer).

If you need to use the latter command, then after it completes drag the actual installer from "/Applications/macos" to the main "/Applications" folder. If there are no errors and you don't see the El Capitan installer in the Applications folder, then you may need to add another folder to the end of the command like "/Applications/macos": sudo pkgutil -expand /Volumes/InstallMacOSX/InstallMacOSX.pkg /Applications/macos Type or paste one of the commands below into Terminal, then press Return to enter the command. Open Terminal, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder. Plug in the USB flash drive or other volume that you're using for the bootable installer. pkg file): sudo pkgutil -expand /Volumes/InstallMacOSX/InstallMacOSX.pkg /Applications Use Terminal to create the bootable installer. You should end up with the command looking something like (yours may look a bit different for the path to the. Then continue typing on the same line: /Applications pkg file onto the Terminal window to auto-fill the path to the. Start by typing the following leaving at least one space after "-expand ": sudo pkgutil -expand

You can use a Terminal command to manually extract the installer. pkg into an app - an installer app never shows up in my Application folder. When I click on the InstallOS.pkg it opens an installation window, but does not convert the.
