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| # TINU | ||
| TINU, the macOS install media creation tool | ||
| TINU, the bootable macOS installer creation tool | ||
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| [TINU Is Not Unibe**t] | ||
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| This software is intended to be used as a GUI to create a bootable mac os installer for mac and hackintosh, it's basically a GUI for the createinstallmedia executable that could be found in any mac os installation app from Mavericks up to the latest versions. | ||
| This software is intended to be used to create a bootable macOS installer for mac and hackintosh, it's basically a GUI for the createinstallmedia executable that could be found in any macOS installer app from Mavericks up to the latest versions. | ||
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| Allows you to create easily a macOS install media without messing around with command line stuff and without using disk utility. | ||
| Allows you to create easily a macOS install media without messing around with command line stuff and without using disk utility, and also detects and prevents the most common errors with the creation of bootable vanilla macOS installers. | ||
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| # Features: | ||
| - Simple to use UI that allows you to easily start the macOS install media creation process | ||
| - It can work with every Mac OS installer app that has the createinstallmedia executable inside of it's resources folder (including also beta and newly released installers) | ||
| - You can use any drive or partition you want that can be erased and is at least 7 GB of size | ||
| - Works on Mac OS recovery, so you can create a macOS install media from a bootable macOS installer or from the macOs recovery | ||
| - All vanilla, the macOS install medias created with this tool are 100% vanilla, just like you created them using the command line "createinstallmedia" method | ||
| - Open source, you will know what this program does on your computer and also you can create your own version by downloading and playing with the source code | ||
| - Does not requires to do anything of special first, just open the program | ||
| - No need to go in disk utility first, TINU can format your drive for you | ||
| - Uses recent and more modern APIs and SDKs and Swift 3 language | ||
| - Transparent graphics style available (use alt + s on the keyboard or View->Use transparent style) | ||
| - Works using the latest versions of macOS and will also support newer Mac installers out of the box without needing for an update | ||
| Features that I'd like to add in the future: | ||
| - Advanced section, to customize your macOS install media | ||
| - Installer customization: Kernelcache/prelinkedknerel and boot files replacement (a feature that can be handy while dealing with old Macs or with beta installers when you need to mod or change the boot files some times) | ||
| - Install clover and configure clover | ||
| - Install kexts inside the kexts folder of clover | ||
| - Clover drivers customization | ||
| - Use custom dsdt in clover | ||
| - integrated pre-made clover config templates database from a remote and open repository | ||
| - Support for other languages, at least Italian | ||
| - Simple to use UI that allows you to easily start the bootable macOS installer creation process | ||
| - It can work with every macOS installer app that has the createinstallmedia executable inside of its resources folder (including also beta and newly released installers) | ||
| - You can use any volume you want that can be erased and is at least 7 GB of size (if the volume's drive is not in GUID format, TINU will format it to make it GUID!) | ||
| - Works on Mac OS recovery, so you can create a bootable macOS installer from the macOS installer itself or from the macOS recovery, and you can use TINU to install macOS too. | ||
| - All vanilla, the bootable macOS installers created with this tool are 100% vanilla, just like you created them using the command line "createinstallmedia" method in the terminal | ||
| - Open source, you will know what this program does on your computer and also you can create your own version by downloading and playing with the source code | ||
| - Does not require to do anything of special first, just open the program, and make sure you have a USB drive pulugged in and that you have a macOS installer app in the system. | ||
| - No need to go in disk utility first, TINU can format your drive/partition for you | ||
| - Uses recent and more modern APIs and SDKs and Swift 3 language | ||
| - Transparent graphics style available (use alt + s on the keyboard or View->Use transparent style) | ||
| - Works using the latest versions of macOS and will also support newer Mac installers out of the box without needing for an update | ||
| - Advanced section, to customize your bootable macOS installer | ||
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| Features that are planned for some future versions: | ||
| - Integrated EFI partition mounter tool (TINU can already mount EFI partitions from version 2.0, but a dedicated section which allows to mount every EFI partition in the system will be added) | ||
| - Install clover and configure clover | ||
| - Install kexts inside the kexts folder of clover | ||
| - Clover drivers customization | ||
| - Use custom dsdt in clover | ||
| - integrated pre-made clover config templates database from a remote and open repository | ||
| - Support for other languages, at least Italian | ||
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| # Rquirements: | ||
| - A computer that runs Mac OS X Yosemite or a more recent version (Mac OS X El Capitan is required to use TINU in a macOS recovery or installer) | ||
| - A drive or a free partition of at least 7 GB that you want to turn into a macOS/Mac OS X installer | ||
| - A copy of a macOS/Mac OS X installer app (Maveriks or newer versions are supported) in the /Applications folder or in the root of any storage drive in your machine (excepted the drive or volume you want to turn into your macOS install media) | ||
| - A computer that runs Mac OS X Yosemite or a more recent version (Mac OS X El Capitan is required to use TINU in a macOS recovery or installer) | ||
| - A drive or a free partition (on a drive which already supports GUID) of at least 7 GB that you want to turn into a macOS/Mac OS X installer | ||
| - A copy of a macOS/Mac OS X installer app (Maveriks or newer versions are supported) in the /Applications folder or in the root of any storage drive in your machine (excepted the drive or volume you want to turn into your macOS install media) | ||
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| # Download: | ||
| - You can download the pre-made and code signed binary from the releases section of this repo that you can find here: https://github.com/ITzTravelInTime/TINU/releases | ||
| - Or you can just build your own copy by just downloading the source code and using Xcode (requires Xcode 8) | ||
| - You can download the pre-made and code signed binary from the releases section of this repo that you can find here: https://github.com/ITzTravelInTime/TINU/releases | ||
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| - Or you can just build your own copy by just downloading the source code and then using Xcode (requires Xcode 8) | ||
| # Frequently asked questions | ||
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| https://github.com/ITzTravelInTime/TINU/wiki/FAQs | ||
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| # Wiki | ||
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| https://github.com/ITzTravelInTime/TINU/wiki | ||
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| # Useful links: | ||
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| Thread on insanelymac.com: | ||
| - http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/326959-tinu-the-macos-installer-creator-app-mac-app/#entry2491600 | ||
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| Facebook hackintosh help and beta testing (Italian only): | ||
| - https://www.facebook.com/groups/Italia.hackintosh/?fref=ts | ||
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| Thread (english) on insanelymac.com: | ||
| - http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/326959-tinu-the-macos-installer-creator-app-mac-app/ | ||
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| Thread (italian) on insanelymac.com: | ||
| - https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/333261-tinu-app-per-creare-chiavette-di-installazione-di-macos-thread-in-italiano/ | ||
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| Thread (english-german) on hackintosh-forum.de: | ||
| - https://www.hackintosh-forum.de/index.php/Thread/33630-TINU/ | ||
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| Facebook hackintosh help and beta testing (Italian only): | ||
| - https://www.facebook.com/groups/Italia.hackintosh/?fref=ts | ||
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| Contact me (project creator): | ||
| - Insanelymac.com profile: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/user/1390153-itztravelintime/ | ||
| - email: [email protected] | ||
| - Insanelymac.com profile: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/user/1390153-itztravelintime/ | ||
| - email: [email protected] | ||
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| # Repository rules: | ||
| - Pease do not recompile and redistribute as your own versions of this software outside this repo, and trust only official releases on the main branch of this software, to avoid using any third party modified or recompiled versions, because third party developers can easily hide malweres inside of it | ||
| - If you want to create your own spin-off version of TINU create it in this repo in your own branch | ||
| - Distribute your spin-off version of TINU in this repo in the releases section , specifying from which branch your binary comes from | ||
| - For your spin-off version use the same version of swift that is used on the main branch at the moment you publish it | ||
| - Do not edit the main branch, create your own instead and contact the project creator if you believe that your changes may help with the main branch | ||
| - Contact the project creator for problems of the UI to fix, suggestions from professional designers are welcome | ||
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| - Pease trust only official releases of this software, to avoid using any third party modified or recompiled versions, because third party developers can easily hide malweres inside of it | ||
| - If you want to create your own spin-off version of TINU please let the project creator to know! | ||
| - Distribute your spin-off version of TINU on GitHub and respect the license please! | ||
| - If you believe that your changes may help with the main branch, create your own fork, apply the changes to it and then create a pull/merge request to the main branch here to let the changes to be applyed more easily by the repository maintainers | ||
| - Contact the project creator for any problems, bugs, spell/grammar errors and missplacements to fix in the main repo, suggestions from designers and developers are always welcome | ||
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| # Note that: | ||
| - This software is under GNU GPL v3 license so any new branch/mod/third party release must be open source and under the same license | ||
| - I (project creator) assume no responsibility for any use of this app and this source code, and also for any kind of hardware and software damage to any computer and any device or peripheral that may come from this app or source code during it's use and outside it's usage | ||
| - I (project creator) do not guarantee support to you, this is only an open source project, not a product released by a company! | ||
| - This project is born only for educational and demonstrative purposes, it's not intended to be used for commercial purposes and it will never be, don't use source code from this project to create apps for that aim. | ||
| - This is a no-profit project, born only to let people create macOS install medias in a more simple way and also to learn how to create this kind of apps. | ||
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| # Credits: | ||
| - Apple for macos and installer apps and scripts | ||
| - People that helped me a lot: | ||
| Francesco Perchiazzi, Nicola Tomarelli, Roberto Sciortino, Raffaele Sonnessa, Ermanno Nicoletti, Tommaso Dimatore, Michele Vitiello Bonaventura, Massimiliano Faralli, Davide Dessì, Giorgio Dall'Aglio | ||
| - Special thanks to Italian Hackintosh group!! for help (https://www.facebook.com/groups/Italia.hackintosh/?fref=ts) | ||
| - Pietro Caruso (ITzTravelInTime) for creating, maintaing and developing this project | ||
| - This software is under GNU GPL v3 license so any new branch/mod/third party release must be open source and under the same license | ||
| - I (project creator) assume no responsibility for any use of this app and this source code, and also for any kind of hardware and software damage to any computer and any device or peripheral that may come from this app or source code during it's use and outside it's usage | ||
| - I (project creator) do not guarantee support to you, this is only an open source project, not a product released by a company! | ||
| - This project is born only for educational and demonstrative purposes, it's not intended to be used for commercial purposes and it will never be, don't use source code from this project to create apps or software for that aim. | ||
| - This is a no-profit project, born only to let people to create macOS install medias in a more simple way and also to learn how to create this kind of apps. | ||
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| # Credits: | ||
| - Apple for macos and installer apps and scripts | ||
| - People that helped me a lot: | ||
| Francesco Perchiazzi, Nicola Tomarelli, Roberto Sciortino, Raffaele Sonnessa, Ermanno Nicoletti, Tommaso Dimatore, Michele Vitiello Bonaventura, Massimiliano Faralli, Davide Dessì, Giorgio Dall'Aglio, Peter Paul Chato. | ||
| - Special thanks to Italian Hackintosh group!! for help (https://www.facebook.com/groups/Italia.hackintosh/?fref=ts) | ||
| - Thomas Tempelmann for help with the UI | ||
| - Pietro Caruso (ITzTravelInTime) for creating, maintaing and developing this project |