Catalina on Mac Mini Server 6,2

[Khurtana]

Hi people

I have an old Mac Mini Server (late 2012, 6,2) that I used to use as a VM host (ran well, 5 VMs!!).

I am repurposing it as a desktop for one of my kids and looked at using Dosdudes patcher methodology to run Catalina on it. It through an error due to RAID configuration so I demounted and tried as a single host. No luck there either.

Has anyone had success doing this yet?

 

[MAlexB]

I have the very same machine and it does Catalina out of the box, means it is an officially supported system; and mine runs it extremely well (w/ SSD)!

 

[Khurtana]

Yours is a late 2012 Mac Mini 6,2?

 

[MAlexB]

Yes.

 

[weckart]

Mac Mini 6,1 is supported out of the box. The server (6,2) is the same hardware with the second storage drive adapter in place.

 

[chrfr]

Hi people

I have an old Mac Mini Server (late 2012, 6,2) that I used to use as a VM host (ran well, 5 VMs!!).

I am repurposing it as a desktop for one of my kids and looked at using Dosdudes patcher methodology to run Catalina on it. It through an error due to RAID configuration so I demounted and tried as a single host. No luck there either.

Has anyone had success doing this yet?

The 2012 Mini natively supports Catalina. You don't need the patcher at all. You will have to get rid of the RAID, however. Personally, I'd swap out at least one of the drives for an SSD.