from dosdude to OpenCore Legacy Patcher

[kintaro81]

Some years ago I installed mojave on a late 2011 macbook pro with "dosdude mojave"... If I want to upgrade to Monterey or beyond can I use OCLP (OpenCore Legacy Patcher) with dosdude installed?

I would like to maintain data and apps so I would like to upgrade and not fresh install. is it possible?

 

[Bigwaff]

I would like to maintain data and apps so I would like to upgrade and not fresh install. is it possible?

Let’s say an “in place” upgrade is possible. Are your apps compatible with Monterey and beyond?

 

[kintaro81]

Let’s say an “in place” upgrade is possible. Are your apps compatible with Monterey and beyond?

I think the apps are the last issue, in case are not compatible I'm going to update them (ex. I can't update firefox and nextcloud because of mojave).

for "in place" do you mean that I simply install OpenCore Legacy Patcher and follow its guide? do you know if I have to uninstall dosdude in some way first?

 

[Bigwaff]

for "in place" do you mean that I simply install OpenCore Legacy Patcher and follow its guide?

I only used the term “in place” because you said you “would like to maintain data and apps”. How would you plan to do that if the upgrade was not “in place”?

 

[Grumpus]

By "in place" I took Bigwaff to mean that you wouldn't erase the disk as part of the installation process.

Something to consider is that apfs, the apple file system, has changed quite a bit between Mojave and Monterey to support the new signed-and-sealed system volume setup. I frankly don't know what, if any, problems you'd run into as a result. IOW, I don't know if Apple does some sort of conversion of the filesystem during the install. Maybe someone out there with more experience can chime in.

You could use Time Machine to back up your Mojave installation. You could then do a "clean" OCLP installation of Monterey (or later), i.e. you'd erase the entire disk during the installation. Towards the end of the process, Migration Assistant should run, giving you the opportunity to restore your user, files and apps from the TM backup.

Just throwing that out as a possibilty.