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This is a recurring question from many people who want to create an OS X/macOS USB installer but neither have a Mac nor a Hack to do this. They only have Windows and a VM can be a little daunting or not successful. Thankfully, there are tools that can be used from Windows to obtain the desired Graal! We can recommend the 2 x following tools: 1) TransMac https://www.acutesystems.com/scrtm.htm 2) Boot Disk Utility http://cvad-mac.narod.ru/index/bootdiskutility_exe/0-5 See this thread also: https://osxlatitude.com/forums/topic/10494-how-to-create-mac-installation-usb-from-windows Those who know how to use Google may look up for tutos. Example: https://www.wikigain.com/create-macos-high-sierra-bootable-usb-installer-windows-10/

With Catalina 10.15, Apple went further into increasing the security of its OS and the system's/root partition is now locked upon system startup. One of the consequences is that, by default, /System/Library/Extensions folder (/S/L/E) is locked and can not be modified in any way. In the same respect, other reserved folders such as /usr/bin or /usr/sbin are locked too. This can be a problem for such situations where a vanilla kext has to be replaced in /S/L/E or a file of /S/L/CoreServices has to be patched. The trick is basically to mount Catalina's root partition in Read-Write (RW) mode instead of Read-Only (RO) mode. This can be accomplished through Terminal with the following command: sudo mount -uw / followed a restart of the Finder through Terminal command: sudo killall Finder or simply by relaunching the Finder from the Apple menu:

There you are: Archive.zip Rest assured those kexts are part of the vanilla installation, no doubts to be had on that front. For future reference, with Pacifist app you can extract kexts from any given combo update (like 10.14.4) available off Apple's web site. Simply Google for it.