So, I am helping a friend of mine, who admittedly, did something against
probably better judgement of listening to advice. Now, he/she has gotten
themselves in a bit of a mess.
Though people have been warning for now to basically avoid Catalina like
the plague, as plugins often stop working, PT itself isn't certified and
has major issues, heck, not that this is exactly OT, but even Reaper
apparently has major issues and won't run...
Anyway, they upgraded their mac mini 2018 to Catalina. I'm not sure how
much was them not listening, vs. how much was them not seeing the
warnings that have been discussed in various places.
I happened to have an old Mojave installer lying around on my mac from
earlier. So, I managed to use Disk MakerX and create a bootable USB
drive of the Mojave installer, but evidently, it appears to be dammaged.
Of corse, we didn't know this until the phase of reinstallation after
repartitioning their Catalina Macintosh HD, so, basically now, their
drive went to being wiped. I wound up having to do an internet network
install, and get them back on Catalina, so they'd have at least
something usable. All be it, PT is out the question, but at least their
system would boot.
I tried doing command+option+shift+R to get into internet recovery which
would download the version of the OS their system came with originally,
which was Mojave. Unfortunately, this isn't working. When I looked in my
purchase history in the app store, I cannot find Mohave in the history
dating all the way back to 2010, which obviously, Mojave wasn't in
existance at that point, so if I don't see it going that far back, then
we gotta problem.
I checked, but I do not have a Super Duper backup of Mojave. The only
thing I have is one of Sierra 10.12, and another of an early seed 10.15
Catalina beta. I was thinking if I had something, I could just modify it
to their settings after re-imaging it to their drive.
Even if I did this with the Sierra image, it wouldn't help, as 1, the
system is newer than when Sierra was out, and I don't know how backward
compatible that system would be, but more importantly, I can't as the
Mojave installer is apparently gone, and the one I have, says their
system, is dammaged.
I'm perfectly aware of having to go into recovery and disable the
security settings in security manager, so they can install from external
media. I already did that. Stupid T2 chip? I freaking hate that blasted
thing!
I just wonder what the next step's gonna be, since I can't seem to
obtain a Mojave installer which isn't corrupted.
It's so weird! My purchase history shows El Capitan, but not Sierra, not
Mojave, none of that. Why would they have kept El Capitan in there, but
pulled Sierra, and Mojave? Even HI! Sierra's not showing in there even
though I damn well know I downloaded it with my apple ID earlier.
Do we at this point, short of them just waiting for things to become
compatible, have any recorse, or are they basically screwed? I tried to
warn them, but... yeah...
Chris.
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