I have several Macbook Pros - a 2010, 2 mid 2012, a 2015 Macbook Air and a 2015 Macbook Pro. I'm gradually migrating to Monterey on the 2015s (gradually means I didn't do it on the 2015 MBP yet but am ready to) and plan to use OCLP to do so on the 2012's as emergency replacements to the 2015 MBP. I make good bootable backups (SuperDuper 3.6.1. works well for this) and often want to boot a machine from a backup to test something - backups should be tested anyway sometimes. I shall create my 2015 MBP system by cloning my main to backup then from there to the internal SSD on the 2015.
My problem is I want to stop wifi connecting to my home wifi on booting a clone. When booting a clone on an external disk its needed to change the network machine name before connecting. Logging in with connection enabled also messes up iCloud authentication on that machine (requiring re-authentication afterwards). Having wifi connection disabled at boot solves both of these problems. Wake for network access is not enabled. One fix would be to turn of my router but that's a pain. Another fix would be to set my wifi network to not auto-join (again a pain because it requires a change to my usual settings and I'm unclear that it actually works).
One would think there would be a switch in the boot-manager to be used at alt-power-on but I can't find one. DIsabling wifi works if you are booting from one machine but it doesn't work across machines.
Anyone have a solution for this other than what I have mentioned ?
Thanks
andy
My problem is I want to stop wifi connecting to my home wifi on booting a clone. When booting a clone on an external disk its needed to change the network machine name before connecting. Logging in with connection enabled also messes up iCloud authentication on that machine (requiring re-authentication afterwards). Having wifi connection disabled at boot solves both of these problems. Wake for network access is not enabled. One fix would be to turn of my router but that's a pain. Another fix would be to set my wifi network to not auto-join (again a pain because it requires a change to my usual settings and I'm unclear that it actually works).
One would think there would be a switch in the boot-manager to be used at alt-power-on but I can't find one. DIsabling wifi works if you are booting from one machine but it doesn't work across machines.
Anyone have a solution for this other than what I have mentioned ?
Thanks
andy