Apple Releases Fourth macOS Catalina Public Beta

[racook]

I have tried enrolling and unenrolling several times. Still the software update dialog says, "requested update not found". I have also tried rebooting the machine but still no luck. Any advice? I'm running macOS Mojave 10.14.6

These two cmd's worked for me on MBP2015 & iMac2018.

sudo defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL

sudo /usr/sbin/softwareupdate --set-catalog https://swscan.apple.com/content/ca...ion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.gz

 

[macwinman]

I wonder if it has something to do with APFS. 2019 uses it, and I redid my macbook to use it as well. Does your 2014 use APFS?

Nah, I've been running APFS on my 2014 MBP since 10.13. My guess as to why I can't boot off an installer USB is that if Apple unintentionally replaced the Catalina beta enrollment tool with the Mojave version, maybe they likewise replaced some other Catalina resource with the Mojave equivalent. When my bootable installer disk tries to download the appropriate resources, it winds up with code that doesn't support my 2019 MBP.

In any case, I worked my way around it. With the Software Update source configured correctly, I was able to do an in-place beta upgrade to my 10.14.6 install, then I booted into Recovery. Launched Disk Utility, switched "View" to "Show All Devices", then erased the APFS container that held my boot and data volumes. Was able to use Recovery to do a clean install of Catalina onto a blank drive then. A little more complicated than being able to boot off a USB drive to completely wipe the internal drive, but it had the same result. I am up-and-running!

 

[aloshka]

These two cmd's worked for me on MBP2015 & iMac2018.

sudo defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL

sudo /usr/sbin/softwareupdate --set-catalog https://swscan.apple.com/content/ca...ion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.gz

That definitely worked. I'm just wondering why it was incorrect to begin with...
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Nah, I've been running APFS on my 2014 MBP since 10.13. My guess as to why I can't boot off an installer USB is that if Apple unintentionally replaced the Catalina beta enrollment tool with the Mojave version, maybe they likewise replaced some other Catalina resource with the Mojave equivalent. When my bootable installer disk tries to download the appropriate resources, it winds up with code that doesn't support my 2019 MBP.

In any case, I worked my way around it. With the Software Update source configured correctly, I was able to do an in-place beta upgrade to my 10.14.6 install, then I booted into Recovery. Launched Disk Utility, switched "View" to "Show All Devices", then erased the APFS container that held my boot and data volumes. Was able to use Recovery to do a clean install of Catalina onto a blank drive then. A little more complicated than being able to boot off a USB drive to completely wipe the internal drive, but it had the same result. I am up-and-running!

Ya you are right. I got it working with racook's help. I'm assuming this is the same config change you are talking about.

Just wondering why it's wrong for some and not everyone

 

[peter1wong]

I created another volume using Mojave, then install High Sierra & Public Beta Access dmg. From there, I can see Catalina, so will do up a boot up before losing it again.