II understand, and I've learned my lesson from last time. Therefore, this time, I must be patient.
Obviously ymmv, but I have a personal MBP 16 M1 Pro and a M4 Air at work. (I'm the IT admin). I have been happy enough with the perofmrnace of the beta on my personal machine, I may install it on my work laptopII understand, and I've learned my lesson from last time. Therefore, this time, I must be patient.
I just created a boot disk for Tahoe and formatted the drive/reinstalled. https://mrmacintosh.com
I just partitioned my hard drive and have Sequoia on one half and Tahoe on the other.
Well duh, you're running it as a clean install on an M3 Max with 48 GB RAM. The fact that it runs well isn't exactly impressive even for a beta...
Just using iCloud puts it all in place for me. Make a new user, sign in to iCloud with the same account and it all shows up! Time Machine is almost a thing of the past for me now with iCloud.
I wouldn't even be mad if this was the final release, I've been using it as my primary OS for a week and it's incredible with almost no bugs. Extremely surprised.
For a clean install, is there a way to find the InstallAssistan.pkg on Apple's dev site? I can only find the ipsw-files, but non-Apple sites, such as the one quoted, list the full URL to InstallAssistant. Or does upgrading to the beta via system settings download the full package I can then create install media from as per usual?
sudo find . -mtime -1 -size +1Gi put commands in another thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/make-bootable-tahoe-usb-installer.2458565/post-33976133
I always use direct Apple links from here
mrmacintosh.com
How exactly do you just erase the data volume without having to reinstall the OS? Where is this setting? For ages, I've installed on top of previous versions of macOS, and I would like to start clean w/o having to wipe my entire SSD and reinstall when macOS 26 is released later this fall.
System Settings > General > Transfer of Reset > Erase All Content and Settings.
I always use direct Apple links from here
macOS Tahoe Full Installer Database. Download Directly from Apple!
Download macOS Tahoe full installer with one click straight from Apple! Every version of Tahoe Beta & Final available all in one place!!
Also has instructions to create a bootable USB
) I guess I had hoped to find InstallAssistant by simply browsing the dev site, as opposed to only ipsw-files.This seems practical, iOS-style! So if this deletes or "factory resets" everything on the writable volume, it *should* be the same as a clean install, right?
The separation of the OS and "everything else" means just erasing the Data volume is a "factory reset', just leaving the OS and an empty volume. Of course, the "clean install" will only be as clean as what you install. If you restore your entire disk from TM, then you're back where you started!
it is in index-36seed-1.sucatalog for beta 3Thanks both of you, the .sucatalog plist-files seem useful! (someone must have figured out the sucatalog-url to beta3 by now - the file isn't index-36beta-1.sucatalog or index-36seed-1.sucatalog at least
Anyway, downloading via system settings stages the upgrade to happen on next reboot so I guess I'm stuck for the moment and have to do a clean install at a later point. Maybe I won't reboot for a while... but then again, I almost never reboot.
for file in $(curl -# https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-26seed-1.sucatalog | grep com_apple_MobileAsset_MacSoftwareUpdate.plist | grep -Evw '(com_apple_MobileAsset_MacSoftwareUpdate.plist.integrityDataV1)' | sed -e s/"<string>"//g -e s/"<\/string>"//g -e s/\ //g); do
curl -s $file | egrep -A 1 -m 2 '(>Build<|OSVersion)' | sed -e s/"<string>"//g -e s/"<\/string>"//g -e s/\ //g | sed -e s/"<key>"//g -e s/"<\/key>"//g -e s/\ //g
echo $file | sed -e "s/com_apple_MobileAsset_MacSoftwareUpdate.plist/InstallAssistant.pkg/g"
done Build
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OSVersion
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https://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/61/52/082-72240-A_VHBIKMBYNV/rg76pd3i6jfl1zpi4uy7spxgcnrb7e1olo/InstallAssistant.pkg