Fails creating bootable volume

[mothy-tim]

Hi, used the following command:

sudo mist download installer macOS\ Catalina application bootableinstaller --bootable-installer-volume /Volumes/Untitled

But get this error?

┌───────────────────────────┐
│ BOOTABLE INSTALLER VOLUME │
└───────────────────────────┘
  ├─ Copying '/Volumes/001-68446/Applications/Install macOS Catalina.app' to '/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000000000000/T/Install macOS Catalina.ad-hoc-code-signatures.app'...
  ├─ Ad-hoc code signing '/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000000000000/T/Install macOS Catalina.ad-hoc-code-signatures.app'...
  ├─ Creating bootable macOS Installer at mount point '/Volumes/Untitled'...
  └─ Invalid Exit Status Code: '254', Message: /Volumes/Install macOS Catalina is not a valid volume mount point.

What did I do wrong please, sorry not great with command line! It's taken hours to get to this point!!

[mothy-tim]

So I tried again! Had to delete original download or it failed! Now gets this far:

┌───────────────────────────┐
│ BOOTABLE INSTALLER VOLUME │
└───────────────────────────┘
  ├─ Copying '/Volumes/001-68446/Applications/Install macOS Catalina.app' to '/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000000000000/T/Install macOS Catalina.ad-hoc-code-signatures.app'...
  └─ “Install macOS Catalina” couldn’t be copied to “T” because an item with the same name already exists.

How do I make it clean up?? Losing the will here!

[mothy-tim]

So I had to rename the USB stick! Ran this command:
sudo mist download installer macOS\ Catalina application bootableinstaller --bootable-installer-volume /Volumes/Install\ macOS\ Catalina --force

It completes ok, but the machine won't boot from it?

[mothy-tim]

Looking at the USB stick the installer is only 520MB in size, shouldn't it be 6GB or more?

[ninxsoft]

@mothy-tim I am experiencing the same issue on macOS Sequoia 15.3.1, running on an Apple Silicon Mac.

Will continue to investigate, but I do not have a workaround as of yet.

[ninxsoft]

This appears to be same issue as #175

[ninxsoft]

I think I may have a fix, at least for the application bundle creation.

The macOS High Sierra, macOS Mojave and macOS Catalina all have a "bug" that write some of the installer app bundle to /Applications, regardless of the target destination.

The good news is I have implemented this fix in Mist (ninxsoft/Mist#144, ninxsoft/Mist#145), I just need to transplant these changes across to mist-cli.

More details to follow!