The installation will take 25-30GBs of disk space and about 15-30 minutes to install.Īs long as the 'OS X El Capitan.app' is complete and there is no corruption, then it should be usable to make a USB installer. Now that you have the Install OS X El Capitan.app in your Applications folder That comes later when you are ready to actually install El Capitan.) Not any other internal or external disk you want to actually install El Capitan on, You to select a disk, you need to select the disk you are booted up to at the time (It is also important to note that when the installation window asks Would it take up only 7MBs of space when the initial download was 6.2GBs.īy running the installation you are actually creating the Install OS X El Capitan.app Will take 7MBs of disk space, no operating system takes up so little room, and why
The installation window does not install El Capitan, if you read the text it says it When you open that to the InstallMacOSX.pkg you then open that and you see an You downloaded the correct full installer contained in the InstallMacOSX.dmg.
