Hi Garyi, great minds think alike! Yup, did that this morning. I mean, I can live without Big Sur, but it’s the challenge that drives me.Avole the update will need to swap loads of files around doubling up for a while so it might settle on 12 gigs but probably wants 30 to do the swap. There must be stuff on your drive you can delete, downloads folder?
I bit the bullet last night and upgraded from Catalina to Big Sur. The download and install was a nightmare and for a time I thought I'd lost everything. I encountered two particular issues, a hang at 'less then one minute' at install completion and another at the 'optimising' stage. The only way to get through these processes was to power off and on again, which I really didn't want to do, but seemed to have little choice. After about three hours it was fully installed and running without any further snags. Was it worth the effort, definitely yes! Generally faster, especially Safari and an overall cleaner look resembling iPhone/iPad.
I was surprised how easy it was to install 11.0.1 in a VM compared to that pig Crapalina.
I recommend a) first making a Time Machine backup and b) use Diskutil in Recovery Mode to erase your disk as Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and Scheme: GUID Partiition Map. In order to do this you'll need to first download Big Sur and then build a recovery disk or USB stick. The installation process for Big Sur will automatically reconfigure the disk to APFS. All good fun!
Erasing the disk gets rid of Crapalina and the installation took around 25 min on a 40GB virtual hard drive. Space used after clean installation 18.3GB and the disk now has 5 volumes! I like the little house on the active data section.
Cheers,
DV
Chicken!Glad you boys are happy to do Apple's testing, keep the reports coming.
Chicken!
Apologies if somehow I mislead you. I did indeed screw up (deaded) my pricey high-speed Samsung USB stick but that was done in Windows by accidentally launching a WD utility as I brushed my hand across the trackpad and immediately the Windows-to-Go froze and the Samsung was deaded. I have kept the stick as I believe that if I had the right insider information I'd be able to reprogram it and recover. I have since deleted that utility!Hi DV.
Have you had any problems with external media discs yet? I know like me you had some Sandisk memory card damaged by Catalina.
Cheers, Rack.
Can you find out more about the problem. I'd like to help if I can.A friend is coming to the end of his tether with Catalina. He has just spent thousands on an 'upgraded' machine that is loads faster but doesnt work.
Its hard not to chuckle as a Windows user.
Your Mac is a PC. A sexy looking one with standard innards that is way overpriced. It will run both macOS and Windows (and Linux). Just a few days ago I booted both a 2014 MBA and a 2010 Mac Mini with the latest version of Windows 10 Enterprise. I have had a few Windows 10 machines come to me because they don't boot and often locked in an attempted auto repair loop. I believe the problem is related to fast boot and I disable that during repair.Mid-2014 MacBook Pro here, no issues at all, so far.
As a Mac user I chuckle every single time someone at work has to ask about their PC machine. Especially as they take every opportunity to rip the piss out of me for having a Mac.
But...Your Mac is a PC. A sexy looking one with standard innards that is way overpriced. It will run both macOS and Windows (and Linux). Just a few days ago I booted both a 2014 MBA and a 2010 Mac Mini with the latest version of Windows 10 Enterprise. I have had a few Windows 10 machines come to me because they don't boot and often locked in an attempted auto repair loop. I believe the problem is related to fast boot and I disable that during repair.
Cheers,
DV