Double click here and mount Base System.dmg. This will mount a drive called Mac OS X Base System. In Disk Utility, click on restore tab, drag Mac OS X Base System to Source. Drag the 8 GB USB drive to Destination. Now click on Restore tab at bottom left in the Disk Utility window. It contains minimal booter files and kernel, and at /com.apple.recovery.boot/BaseSystem.dmg, a disk image with a stripped-down and tweaked copy of OS X. The booter mounts this volume (it attaches as /dev/disk1), and transfers to OS X running on it. This is the Mac OS X Base System. So my guess is that Time Machine makes a backup of your most recent base system (the High Sierra dmg file weighs 485 MB) and keeps it up to date, which requires 'Opening BaseSystem.dmg' whenever there is a system update to backup.
Yay, finally a gold master release has been established. Now to get our hands dirty on the newest OS from Apple. I could have attempted to write up a tutorial on how to install Lion on your hackintosh with the beta release, but if you recollect my previous post about Lion, you’ll remember I was testing the beta version out on my macbook pro. Though I was very pleased with the operating system and for a beta release it was very stable, it still had minor annoying glitches and some software conflicts. Considering I use my hackintosh for college, I can’t really afford a half-ass OS on my main machine that wouldn’t work with my chemistry software. Now all that has changed (hopefully). I just got a hand of the Gold Master Build and I am making preperations to my harddrive and machine to have a fresh install of OSX Lion 10.7.
Os X Base System.dmg Free
Things to Note about the Gold master and 10.6.8 release:
Os X Base System Disk
- “Golden Master” refers to the final release version. 11A511 is listed as GM. You will be able to update as Apple releases 10.7.x maintenance builds.
- There have been speculations about Lion only being installed through an update from Snow leopard 10.6.8. This I will verify in the upcoming posts soon. Just after this hell week subsides in course work.
- 10.8.0 Darwin kernel with native Sandy Bridge support. This means that going forward, all Sandy Bridge systems can use default iBoot + MultiBeast method. (tonymac’s site)
- SATA3 6gbps now recognized and functional on Sandy Bridge. (tonymac’s site)
- Includes drivers for Sandy Bridge Intel HD 2000/3000 Integrated Graphics (No Injector Yet) (tonymac’s site)
- Includes drivers for AMD 6xxx Graphics cards (tonymac’s site)
- App Store Update to “Get Ready for Lion” (tonymac’s site 10.6.8)