RE: Bootable Catalina Installer

2019-11-16 Thread Simon A Fogarty
thanks jonathan, this is useful information. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Jonathan Cohn Sent: Saturday, 16 November 2019 8:05 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Bootable Catalina Installer For those interested in keeping around old installers, Tidbits

Re: Bootable Catalina Installer

2019-11-15 Thread Jonathan Cohn
For those interested in keeping around old installers, Tidbits recently had an article about the certificates expiring for Macintosh OS installers. What I found particularly interesting was the following blurb: Catalina Enhances softwareupdate Command-Line Tool Speaking of Terminal, Armin Brieg

Re: Bootable Catalina Installer

2019-11-14 Thread Jeff Berwick
Hi Tim, I knew about that method, but the internet seemed to exclusively recommend a bootable key. At any rate, I have followed your instructions and it worked great. Thanks. Jeff > On Nov 14, 2019, at 9:39 AM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hi, > > Instead of using the bo

RE: Bootable Catalina Installer

2019-11-14 Thread Simon A Fogarty
Hi Jeff, If the bootable installer is correctly created then it should show up under sys prefs start up disks, If no tthen why not use the recovery console installer option which is simply to shut down and then hold the r and cmd keys down until it start up Or as I do hold them for approx. 20

Re: Bootable Catalina Installer

2019-11-14 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
Jeff. If you still would like to have a bootable installer for future use, download Install Disk Creator from here. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On

Re: Bootable Catalina Installer

2019-11-14 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, Instead of using the bootable installer, do this: • start your Mac in Recovery Mode. • Select Disk Utility from the MacOS Utilities table then press Continue. • Select Macintosh HD from the Selected Disks table. • Press Erase in the Toolbar. • Make sure the name is Macintosh HD and that the f