To conclude, if you are looking for an all in one solution that can help you deal with creating custom OS X installations for your Hackintosh without having to deal with complex tools, the Pandora's Box utility certainly deserves your attention. The same rules apply when running post installation maintenance tasks, or when you want to setup recovery HDs: get through each step, make the necessary adjustments, and the Pandora's Box applications take care of the rest. Make your own bootable USB and DVD OS X images, using an Apple installer of your choice
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Since most of the customization options are accessible via simple drop down menus, finding your way around is quite easy. Covers hardware selection and construction as well as installing OS X Mavericks. Working with the Pandora's Box application proves to be fairly intuitive: to create your own installer, all you have to do is select the media type (USB or DVD), the OS X installer you want to employ as source, the target volume, and the bootloader you want to employ. To learn all that you can achieve using each utility, make sure to read the built-in Help documentation. However, each time you launch any of these three procedures, Pandora's Box opens 3 other apps respectively (Hermes, Hera, and Zeus), designed to deal with each specific task. This reflects in the app’s user interface, which is represented by a single window containing only three buttons: Create Installer, Create RecoveryHD, and Post Installation. The Pandora's Box capabilities are organized around 3 functions: creating the bootable image, running maintenance tasks after the installation, and making recovery hard drives. Easy to use solution for creating custom OS X images and RecoveryHDs Noteworthy is that, even though you can create bootable images for various architectures, Pandora's Box provides support only for 4 operating systems: Mavericks, Lion, Mountain Lion, and Yosemite.
Pandora's Box is a minimalist yet very powerful OS X utility that can help you make your own OS X bootable DVDs and USBs, in order to update your Hackintosh to the latest OS X version, or to simply customize the installation.
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