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macOS 11 Big Sur on Unsupported Macs Thread
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Will there be a patcher available when big sur is released? on dosdude1's website?
I did not mean that it has to be ready in time or that people aren't working on it, it was just a question out of curiosity. I do not mean to offend anyone working very hard on the patcher.
Patience my friend
. I'm just as anxious as you are to get Big Sur on unsupported Macs, but keep in mind the community is doing this entirely for free and bugging them for a patcher won't make it go any faster.I'm sure they'll get a patcher out as fast as possible once one is stable enough to release.
And also, you all for keeping our older Macs alive! I've loved watching this thread (even if I didn't understand half of it
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Yes, thank you all for working so hard on this patcher! I don't understand most of it either but even then I can see that everyone is working very hard and I do not mean to put any pressure on anybody.And also, you all for keeping our older Macs alive! I've loved watching this thread (even if I didn't understand half of it
The big-sur-micropatcher works reasonably well.
Agreed - HUGE thanks to everyone here who has made this possible - I have everything I need to keep my mini going for another release version (and hopefully more)
Forgive me, I didn’t mean to offend anyone let alone developers. That was not my intention. Everyone does an amazing job as getting the latest OS working for all of us. I simply thought there was an easy usb installer created. Like I said I’m no wizard when it come to terminal. Last time I installed big sur and using terminal commands Screwed up my mac and I had to resort back to Mojave.
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@dosdude1 has been fairly quiet about his own work, and honestly, with how much incredible work he's done over the past few years, it's fine if he can't do it and would prefer to focus on other things. I wouldn't hold my breath for a patcher as comprehensive as his. The micro patcher works well enough from what others say.
Just downloading in 4G (in Italy it is very cheap 7€ 100 GB + infinite calls & SMS) Thank you! I will use your patcher
No, that's a spare one I'm selling, my main it's a MBP9,2 and I was thinking about that, if I should left a partition or any spare drive with Catalina in case of panic or any problem.
It's not safe to use this in a main working machine?
I will wait 2 days for the official ... don't see any point in going through the install twice in as many days ...
You know what I really don't understand...I ran the InstallAssistant.pkg, it takes just seconds to create the MacOS Big Sur installer in the Application Folder while the InstallAssistant.pkg is not even on the same disk...Magic???
Same config here. I dropped the Catalina partition a while back. (used Disk Utility and created a DMG) Make sure you got a bootable USB stick (I used Micropatcher 0.5.0) and keep TimeMachine backups uptodate. I haven't seen any issues. Never lost any data since beta day one. Apart from enabling Wifi after updating which must be done using a full installer. But thats about it.
You most likely don't have to, it will be the same as the beta, if you were on a supported Mac you would not even be offered to download the Installer being released on Thursday.
Initially I thought it was just a mount point or an alias, instead even removing the InstallAssistant.pkg the few seconds extracted content it's still on Applications folder, very fast apple decompression algorithm.
There's some other magic going on here, I have to recall my earlier message here, I normally copy the InstallAssistant.pkg to my external disk, next I delete the original from my OS SSD, next I open the InstallAssistant.pkg from the external disk, this time I forgot though, it was still on the SSD.
Pretty sure most of the App files are already standard on the disk somewhere deep inside the System, next the installer moves the SharedSupport.dmg in place, actually it just sets a Tag in the Dir, that's it.
It's impossible to unpack 12 GB in seconds and copy it to the SSD, my SSD is a Samsung 640 Pro SATA one, write speed around 540 MB/s...so...impossible.
Edit: I just saw 2 extra disks in /System/Volumes/, when I deleted those I got about 12 GB back on my SSD, me says it's moved from that position to the SSD, it is actually already on the SSD, just in another place, The 2 disks where both called "Sharedsupport" with Update Folder and some other files in it.
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Installed on iMac late 2012 with barrykn patch 0.5.0. Everything is working properly. Big Sur 11.0.1 (20B28) is the final version, the same one that will be released on Thursday
Well, this RC2 / Final version is surprising me. I notice that it is faster than any previous version