[OSX-Users] Re: El Capitan

[Jules Field]

On 02/10/2015 15:15, Hugh Glaser wrote:
> 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?
That sounds like the difficult route. Having a Mac with a stupidly large 
amount of storage means I can just split it into 2 partitions, and hence 
not even need an external disk. That makes it *really* easy.

:-)

Jules.
>
>> 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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>>
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>>
>

Jules

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