FAQs

Frequently asked questions

Answers to question frequently asked about TINU:

• What do I need to use to use TINU? To use TINU you need a machine or a virtual machine that does runs Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.0 or a more recent version of Mac OS X/macOS, a 8 gb or bigger USB thumb drive or a partition of at least 8gb inside a drive the uses GUID partition table, and a copy of a Mac OS X/macOS installer app downloaded from the App Store, inside the /Applications folder or in the root of a storage device connected to the system.

• Which are the versions of the Mac OS X/macOS installer app that can be used to create an install media? TINU can create macOS install medias from Mavericks up to the latest ones, inducing also beta and newly released installers, to work with TINU the installer app must contain it's original "createinstallmedia" script into it's Resources folder.

• Why can't I use TINU to create installers of Mac OS X Mountain Lion and older? You can't use such old versions of Mac OS X for your install media because that installer app do not contains the "createinstallmedia" script in the Resources folder.

• Will a install media created with TINU work on a real mac? Yes it will, because TINU uses the "createinstallmedia" method that is actually the official method that is used by apple.

• Will TINU install clover on my install media? At the time being the answer is no, but support for automatic and customizable clover installation is planned for the future releases of the app.

• TINU has not formatted the EFI partition of my install media, why? by default TINU will format only the target partition selected by the user, if the partition is on a drive that uses the GUID partition scheme, if the target partition is on a drive that do not uses GUID, the whole drive will be formatted using GUID, for future version is planned to introduce an option to forse the app to format the entire drive selected.

• Do I need to use disk utility or do any other thing before using TINU? The answer is no, you don't have,n just make sure to have all you need, of course you can do seething first if you want, for example if you want to use multiple partitions on the drive or other stuff, just remember that if your target drive has multiple partitions, if you do not want to erase the data in the other partitions, you need to use GUID asp partition table for the drive.

• Why can't I use TINU on Mavericks and older versions of mac? You can't use it on that old versions because TINU is developed in swift and proper swift support is present only from Yosemite and more recent versions, TINU is more focused to the future.

• **TINU seems to take a lot of time to complete the install media creation process, it it normal? can I stop it? ** It's not TINU's fault, TINU does simply launches the createinstallmedia command and the waits for it to end, the process may take from 10 to 50 minutes, depending on much tings like the amount of data that has to be copied to the install media, speed of drives used and of the current machine and other factors, just leave the TINU window to work and everything will go right.

• Why I can't hide, miniaturize or close the TINU window while the install media creation is in progress? This things have been blocked to prevent the install media creation process from crashing and guarantee that the process will go right.

• Why does TINU asks me for the password 2 times? It's a safety measure, because for first thing the app needs the authentication from the system and then it needs authorization to use the "sudo" command to launch the "createinstallmedia". Do not worry, your password is safe, security measures has been token to keep the system credentials safe, also we suggest to trust only official releases of the app and not third party ones made from the source code that may potentially stole the credentials and use them to hack your system.

• I am having problems opening the app Try to open with right click->open on the app's icon and make sure you are using an official release and that you are using an admin account on the current machine, also checks security and anti virus options of the system.

• I am having some bugs or problems, what can I do? if you can't find the solution to your problem open a bug request on this GitHub thread and specify as most things you can of your system, the install app, the version of TINU, mac os version, etc ..., more details will help us to solve the issue.

• I have an idea or a suggestion for this app Send and email to the app's developer at piecaruso97@gmail.com

• Can I re-host the download or the source code of this program? Yes you can, but we recumbent to our users to trust only original releases here on this repo.

• Can I use source code from TINU in my own project? Yes you can, but make sure to respect terms and conditions of the GNU GPL v3 license used for this project.

• The usage of this app is causing me software or hardware problems The TINU developer and affiliates/contributors do not takes any responsibility for that, you are responsible for what you do with this app and your machine and also for any damage can happen while using this software or the source code, for any problem open bug in the bugs section.