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Use Case:
When I was running script the first time I had not enough space on my disk to download and unpack everything. When I made some space, script was finished successfully however with corrupted data. So bootable pendrive had corrupted image and there was a problem with OS installation.

Possible Solutions:

• Remove artifacts if they already exist
• Add prompt with information for user.

Nevertheless grate job. :)

Per this line, the script always erases disk4 regardless of what the user selects.

sudo diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ INSTALL /dev/disk4

Changing it to the following should preserve the user's selection:

sudo diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ INSTALL ${flashdrive}

-CorpNewt

Hello,
my macbook is not booting anymore. I have only a linux mint so i found your tool which will make bootable usb to install a fresh mac osx again.
the problem is when i choose high sierra it download only the security update. So i download it manually using gibmacos and tried to run the other functions in your script but i am getting the following error in the extraction part function unpackhfs
Path = InstallAssistantAuto.pkg
Type = Xar
WARNINGS:
There are data after the end of archive

do you have a clue how to solve this

Best Regards
Ibrahim

7z e -txar *.pkg *.dmg; 7z e *.dmg */Base*; 7z e -tdmg Base*.dmg *.hfs

Would it be possible to modify this very useful script to allow the user to select which macOS version to download? For example, Sierra or High Sierra.

The .sucatalog from Apple appears to have info about previous macOS releases.

• Daniel Muñoz

How I could use for el capitan ?

First of all, thanks for the script, saved the day.

I had to modify the script to serach for "python3" as Pop_OS! does not hae "python" installed by default.

It would also be useful if the script would separate different versions in to different folders and ask to utilize previously downloaded files (I have slow metered hotspot) or to start fresh.