Mojave upgrade

[MacAttack 27]

Greetings

I tried to update my early 2015 MacBook pro from Mojave to Monterey (as per my System pref. info) and every time i get the message 'An error occurred while installing the selected update, the request Timed out'.
I have tried to update progressively from Mojave to Catalina to Big Sur and then Monterey and I get the same message on every attempt.

Now, I have just installed a new 2TB Kingston SSD after using 'Carbon Copy' to clone the old 128Gb drive... the cloning worked fine and the new SSD is rocket speed!

Do you think that the OS updates do not happen because Apple detects a 'non OE' SSD?

If not ...what is the solution?

Thanks

 

[Adora]

Hi,

with Sequoia I couldn't even boot from my cloned internal drive and had do a re-install of macOS on the external one to use it as startup-drive. The cloned drives always got stuck early in the progress bar when they tried to boot. I used Super Duper and CCC, both the same.

I thought the problem is Apple Silicon but maybe it's also the newer macOS versions since 11.0.

I would try it with a full installer and do a clean install, run from the internal drive and then migrate the data. That's how I did it.

Dont know what you have exactly done. You can download the installer from the App Store and have to move it out of the Application folder before that Software Update thing in System Settings is closed, because then it might delete the installer again.

Or better use a direct link to the installer package. When you run it, it's in Applications and can also just be used from there to install on the external drive and that update mechanism doesn't get involved. But it has better to be formatted (APFS encrypted) and empty before.

12.7.6:

https://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/34/21/062-40406-A_GZQ27OUQER/ggclib72ow1omcvfexvp84bc9x5ei5tyqu/InstallAssistant.pkg

 

[MacAttack 27]

Hi,

with Sequoia I couldn't even boot from my cloned internal drive and had do a re-install of macOS on the external one to use it as startup-drive. The cloned drives always got stuck early in the progress bar when they tried to boot. I used Super Duper and CCC, both the same.

I thought the problem is Apple Silicon but maybe it's also the newer macOS versions since 11.0.

I would try it with a full installer and do a clean install, run from the internal drive and then migrate the data. That's how I did it.

Dont know what you have exactly done. You can download the installer from the App Store and have to move it out of the Application folder before that Software Update thing in System Settings is closed, because then it might delete the installer again.

Or better use a direct link to the installer package. When you run it, it's in Applications and can also just be used from there to install on the external drive and that update mechanism doesn't get involved. But it has better to be formatted (APFS encrypted) and empty before.

12.7.6:

https://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/34/21/062-40406-A_GZQ27OUQER/ggclib72ow1omcvfexvp84bc9x5ei5tyqu/InstallAssistant.pkg

Hi thank you for the info. On my original Apple ssd (128Gb) i only had 6Gb left on it so any update I tried didn't have enough space. As I said, I then cloned my internal Apple SSD using 'CarbonCopy' to an external Kingston 2TB SSD and that worked fine ... I could boot from the external or the internal Apple without any problems. I have now swapped the SSD and again the 2TB is mounted in my Mac and it all works fine.

Before the swap, any updates went straight for the 'Upgrade' and did not offer the choice of just downloading the updates on another drive... and of course I didn't have enough space.

Now with the new SSD installed i get the message that I attached in my first thread.
Ideally I would need a link to a site that is not the "App Store" maybe then it will offer the choice of downloading the updates to another external drive?

BTW the link you mention comes back with: "Access to swcdn.com is denied"

Following on from the above.....

I just happened to look at my Apps folder and found the Monterey Installer icon... so clicked it and now I'm fully updated!

So this last week I replaced the battery pack which was the original from 2015.... upgraded the SSD... cleaned the screen 'bloom' and installed a screen protector that also cuts out glare... I think my Mac has caught up to the 21st century for a very reasonable C$340 or so.

I'm a happy man! :-D

 

[Adora]

Hi thank you for the info. On my original Apple ssd (128Gb) i only had 6Gb left on it so any update I tried didn't have enough space. As I said, I then cloned my internal Apple SSD using 'CarbonCopy' to an external Kingston 2TB SSD and that worked fine ... I could boot from the external or the internal Apple without any problems. I have now swapped the SSD and again the 2TB is mounted in my Mac and it all works fine.

Before the swap, any updates went straight for the 'Upgrade' and did not offer the choice of just downloading the updates on another drive... and of course I didn't have enough space.

Now with the new SSD installed i get the message that I attached in my first thread.
Ideally I would need a link to a site that is not the "App Store" maybe then it will offer the choice of downloading the updates to another external drive?

BTW the link you mention comes back with: "Access to swcdn.com is denied"

Following on from the above.....

I just happened to look at my Apps folder and found the Monterey Installer icon... so clicked it and now I'm fully updated!

So this last week I replaced the battery pack which was the original from 2015.... upgraded the SSD... cleaned the screen 'bloom' and installed a screen protector that also cuts out glare... I think my Mac has caught up to the 21st century for a very reasonable C$340 or so.

I'm a happy man! :-D

I had to download from the App Store because the Installer I needed (15.2 Beta 4) somehow is only there, what is normally not the case. I just clicked on "Get" and then "Software Update" downloaded it. When the Installer launched, I moved it from Applications to Downloads and closed the Installer. So I could use it later.

Maybe your browser has too much security options enabled. When I open that link there is an empty page. But a right click lets me download it. Same for Safari and Firefox. I am not logged in to anything Apple. Those links should normally work for everyone. I just tried it. Just try another browser if it doesn't work.

 

[Minghold]

...what is the solution?

Thanks

1) Stay on Mojave. 2) debloat it (disable SIP, MRT, Spotlight Indexing, ReportCrash, syncing, Siri, etc). 3) Install Parallels 18 for Mac, 4) Replace Safari with browsers that don't suck, such as Orion and Chromium-legacy; install uBlock origin extension on all of them.