[OSX-Users] Re: El Capitan

[Hugh Glaser]

Yeah, I know.

Laziness always costs you time in the end :-)

I guess I could use Fusion to do something similar as well - install the Beta in Fusion, sharing the disk, essentially?

> On 2 Oct 2015, at 14:54, Jules Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> 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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