[OSX-Users] Re: El Capitan

[Jules Field]

Have you considered installing the betas on either a separate partition 
or external disk, cloned from your main system with CCC or SuperDuper?
Then you don't touch your original setup, while still getting to try out 
all the new versions. If the installation/upgrade works out okay, you 
use the 2nd copy as your main setup.
When the product release comes out, you synchronise a few directories 
(such as Documents, Desktop and whatever) back to your original 
(non-upgraded) disk. Then boot off that and install the upgrade.

This is how I always work with OS betas. If it all goes to s**t you can 
instantly reboot your original system and continue working.

Jules.

On 02/10/2015 13:26, Hugh Glaser wrote:
> And…….BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> So, foolishly emboldened by my success, I decided to go the next step and install the 10.11.1 Public Beta (which I am already running on my laptop).
> Oh dear - I got the same as before, where it fails to boot; and eventually I have managed to boot from Network Recovery, and am now awaiting the several hours of Time Machine recovery.
> Sigh.
>
>
>> On 1 Oct 2015, at 15:38, Hugh Glaser <hugh at glasers.org> wrote:
>>
>> I think I reported that the Public Beta of 10.11 had caused such serious problems on my brand new iMac, that I had been forced to do a network boot and recover from Time Machine.
>> And so I never tried the GM.
>>
>> So, it was with some trepidation that I pressed the “install” button this morning.
>> I am pleased to report that the Distribution has installed successfully.
>>
>

Jules

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