I gave up trying to install on external USB drive as I'd done in previous versions of macOS; I tried 11.1 & 11.2beta1 on 11,1 & 18,3 models. So with a Mac having external USB drive to hold full backup boot from USB memory stick setup by Big Sur "createinstallmedia" run Terminal ...
Is there a trick to successfully installing macOS Big Sur on an ext. drive and the drive not getting corrupted when switching back to Catalina on the internal drive? I understand the issue (64411484), about being on the same APFS container, but don't the internal and external drives each ...
Starting with MacOS Catalina does MacOS have to be installed to APFS formatted disks? i ran into an interesting issue with trying to install MacOS on an external drive where the installer upon rebooting said that it could not recognize the startup disk. that stopped being a problem once I re...
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If your Mac is still troubled with macOS Sequoia/SonomaVentura installation stuck, you can boot the Mac inrecovery mode, where you can run Disk Utility to eliminate issues from the hard drive and use Reinstall macOS to download and install a fresh copy of the OS on your Mac. ...
FWIW I used SuperDuper to copy everything to an external drive (x 2 for safety) and re-formatted by internal drive to APFS, which is said to be the preferred format for an SSD. It wasn't clear this would run Adobe CS but it does. So far no problems. Vo...
To mount your EFI partition in macOSso you can edit your config.plist, first check the “identifier” of your EFI partition in the terminal: ~$ diskutil list /dev/disk0 (external, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *512.1 GB disk0 ...
Fix 4. Create a macOS Bootable Installer You may install macOS with the help of a bootable installer built with a USB flash drive, an external hard drive, or a storage device with approx 14 GB of available storage. However, it will not eliminate your drive, so you must back up your Ma...
To mount your EFI partition in macOSso you can edit your config.plist, first check the “identifier” of your EFI partition in the terminal: ~$ diskutil list /dev/disk0 (external, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *512.1 GB disk0 ...
Re: Installing Creative Suite on a new Mac or macOS 10.12 (Sierra) or later Stephen_Henning New Here , Jun 28, 2018 Copy link to clipboard You can do what I and many others do, get an external hard drive and install El Capitan or an earlier OS X v...