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OS X Yosemite Public Beta Now Available via Mac App Store Redemption Codes
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Haha, well it has now worked its way down to 18 minutes, which I'll accept given the alternative.
I've never had to boot between two partitions before...is it relatively straightforward to get back to my Maverick partition from my Yosemite beta partition or is there something special I need to do to tell it which one to load?
Well this is probably the worst beta I ever used lol. The developer previews were less buggy than this. Unresponsive safari, messages stuck on upgrading database. App Store throwing up blank page or error codes, settings throwing up error codes. Maybe it's time to just go back to the developer previews lol
Just hold the option key down while booting and you can select which OS to boot to from there.
So far, you've had it installed for what 3 hours or so? It might be fine now, but what if an update busts a load of apps? What if a beta driver update causes issues?
In my opinion, Beta software and particularly Beta Operating Systems should only be installed on your test rigs and never ever on your primary/production machines.
If you actually tried reading what i wrote maybe you'd understand.
IF YOU SIGNED UP IN THE PAST when you log in to the website you on't have to go through the sign up process again. THE CODE AND DOWNLOAD LINK IS AVAILABLE
If someone didn't sign up in the past they have to go through the process before they get access to the download link. This means that ANYONE WHO SIGNED UP IN THE PAST SHOULD ALREADY HAVE A CODE READY.
The emails are just a way of letting you know you can visit the site to pick up your reserved code. These emails probably weren't all sent at once to reduce the chance the site crashes from high traffic.
I finally got through a short while ago, got stuck on "Retrieving Code" (see pic), now it's back to "We'll be back soon" arg
That's as far as I've been able to get to as well.
Could everyone stop trying to download this beta so that I can??
I can wait the 1,402,138,132 hours, but that extra 7 minutes is totally unacceptable.
you just have to hold the option key down and choose which to boot to after you've done all the proper steps for installation. alternatively you can go to settings click on start up disk and choose which you would like to boot to while inside OSX.
That's as far as I've been able to get to as well.
Could everyone stop trying to download this beta so that I can??
Lol. I'm done with 4 out of 5GB. Will be done soon and then you can take my spot
Do nothing. Just keep upgrading the way you did before. Don't install the public beta.
Lol. I'm done with 4 out of 5GB. Will be done soon and then you can take my spot
... and I jinxed myself. 4.89GB out of 5.07 downloaded and got the error message saying failed.
haha that's rough. I haven't gotten to 2gb before it errors out. I'm just going to wait until this evening.
I guess we are not going to align here and have differing views. When I signed up weeks ago, I was told I would be emailed a code. Apple did not do that and instead allowed anyone to go to the site today and get their codes, thus bringing down the site multiple times and causing all sorts of code redemption and download issues. If they had just sent out emails with the codes in batches, as they said they would, think about how much smoother this could have went.
So, yes, I am annoyed and have good reason to be.
If it's anything like previous OS X releases there is usually a disk image buried in the installer that you can image to a flash drive.