Install Windows 10 with Bootcamp on Big Sur Beta?

[Lost Hills]

Has anyone tried to install Windows 10 (or any version of Windows for that matter) using Big Sur beta and bootcamp? I mean as an initial setup. I don't need to know if you think its a good idea, I just want to know if you tried it and it worked or not.

 

[chama98]

no i wouldn’t bother

 

[dmccloud]

I have a Windows PC already, no need to install Bootcamp/Parallels and Windows 10 on my Mac. I'll probably install Linux Mint as a VM on this Mac, but Windows is going to be kept on its own machine.

 

[TonyKL]

I already had a Windows 10 bootcamp installed via Catalina, I just created a new partition on my APFS drive and installed Big Sur there, it kept my existing Windows 10 and I can now boot into all 3. So far very happy with Big Sur.

 

[Webster's Mac]

Has anyone tried to install Windows 10 (or any version of Windows for that matter) using Big Sur beta and bootcamp? I mean as an initial setup. I don't need to know if you think its a good idea, I just want to know if you tried it and it worked or not.

So after hearing that using Add Volume to create a "partition" for Big Sur breaks updates on older versions of MacOS, i reformatted everything, installed catalina, partitioned the drive instead of adding a volume, and installed Big Sur on that second partition. I then ran bootcamp from there and split the big sur volume. Apparently Boot Camp supports more than one partition now? I can boot into Catalina, Big Sur, and Bootcamp and updates work on all 3 OSes

 

[Lost Hills]

That is exactly what I wanted to know. If the Big Sur beta handled bootcamp well. In your case it did.

 

[Webster's Mac]

That is exactly what I wanted to know. If the Big Sur beta handled bootcamp well. In your case it did.

Yep! I was surprised. It was the best BootCamp experience I've had haha. Idk when they removed that one partition restriction. It used to complain. I don't think Catalina even lets you BootCamp a disk with more than 1 partition but I may be mistaken. It just worked super well. Now I am enjoying all 3 OSes on my Mid-2015 MBP

 

[CP_Vaughny]

I can't. The Boot Camp assistant will not accept the the .iso. I've downloaded it several times but when I click install, "There was a problem reading the Windows 10 ISO file. Please use a different ISO".