I have a MBP 2016 with Mojava (on the public beta stream) which is working well.
I'd ideally like to try out Catalina to check a few items for compatability.
The MBP in question as a USB write restriction when booted into Mojave due to MDM policy
Ideally I'd like to install Catalina to a APFS volume (which I've created - though with only 20GB free on the HDD space is a bit tight). I could also go external HDD, but in both cases can't write from the currently booted OS. Finally using a VM is another option, though I'm not sure what the state of support is from the different VM tools (inc. a parallels eval)
Does anyone have suggestions for a viable process? Perhaps involving writing the USB elsewhere, or writing the USB in recovery mode (if that's possible).
Do I still need to install Mojave first? And then install the beta profile
Note - I may do this only once PB is out, but want to get prepared...
Obviously I could upgrade in-situ and restore from time machine/backup, but that is more disruptive and I assume a simple overwrite install of Mojave won't work without reformat.
I'd ideally like to try out Catalina to check a few items for compatability.
The MBP in question as a USB write restriction when booted into Mojave due to MDM policy
Ideally I'd like to install Catalina to a APFS volume (which I've created - though with only 20GB free on the HDD space is a bit tight). I could also go external HDD, but in both cases can't write from the currently booted OS. Finally using a VM is another option, though I'm not sure what the state of support is from the different VM tools (inc. a parallels eval)
Does anyone have suggestions for a viable process? Perhaps involving writing the USB elsewhere, or writing the USB in recovery mode (if that's possible).
Do I still need to install Mojave first? And then install the beta profile
Note - I may do this only once PB is out, but want to get prepared...
Obviously I could upgrade in-situ and restore from time machine/backup, but that is more disruptive and I assume a simple overwrite install of Mojave won't work without reformat.
