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Apple Seeds Second macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 Release Candidate to Developers
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Ok, finally updating. Now to find the full installer, but I may have to wait until Thursday for it.
See what they have done to the full installer name:
I.e., no beta in the name anymore.
That means to make a bootable usb installer the command now changes to
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Big\ Sur.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled
(if installing onto a 16GB usb named Untitled)
I.e., no beta in the name anymore.
That means to make a bootable usb installer the command now changes to
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Big\ Sur.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled
(if installing onto a 16GB usb named Untitled)
This has been the case since several betas, I too have a Gb connection, sometimes it start fast, like 40 MB/s but it slows to a crawl fairly soon, Last beta started with ~3 MB/s, I had to restart about 10 times before I got a reasonable DL speed.
Before this I downloaded a full installer (12 GB) in about 2-3 minutes.
Edit: I just downloaded the full installer, the first 11 GB downloaded in 2-3 minutes, it then went instantly to about 2-3MB/s, restarted and slowly recovered to about 6 MB/s for the rest, as I said before, there must be a bug somewhere.
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If you look at all the betas they have a letter at the end of build number released builds don’t tend to have a letter at the end. With less than 48hrs till full release I would say this “Could “ be th finished product but I won’t try to second guess Apple
This is what will be released on the 12th unless there is some show-stopping bug that gets identified in the next 24 hours.
There won't be another beta before release date unless there's a real showstopper bug
Anyone know how to download full image/installer? Previously I'd been able to just re-run the Beta Access Utility, though now it doesn't appear to download the whole thing.
EDIT: Here's the error I keep getting. Anyone know how to get around this so that I can download the complete install image?
EDIT: Here's the error I keep getting. Anyone know how to get around this so that I can download the complete install image?
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Does this come down when you install the profile? I've just been grabbing the OTA updates until the RCs came down.
Me too ... if I can only get it to download ... I got 1.36 Gb out of the 12.19 Gb. ... is shows 7 hours remaining ...
Per the AppleSeed email received earlier today:
Note: For today's macOS Big Sur seed, a full installer is not available. If you are starting from macOS Catalina or an earlier version of macOS, you will need to install 20B5022a (RC1) prior to updating to 20B28 (RC2).
It might not be available for appleseed but it is for developers.
EDIT: I just found out that it actually IS available to appleseed too, despite what the email said.
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I don't think so. There is too much software and I would guess some people still use bootcamp for work or playing games I use bootcamp for games. If I run games in a virtual machine its painful!
I am on the dev portal, but missing something obvious. Does the profile downloaded from the Dev site DL the full installer?
Firmware stayed the same on my 2018 MB Pro, but iBridge was updated from 18.16.12560.5.1,0 (RC1) to 18.16.12561.0.0,0.
That's the firmware on a T2 Mac, so yes, it was upgraded.
