Timeline for High Sierra internet recovery cannot contact server
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| May 26, 2023 at 14:11 | comment | added | jerH |
This is what I wound up doing, although there was a hiccup where a 16 GB thumb drive told me it was out of space while executing the cp -rp /Volumes/esd/Packages /Volumes/Install\ El\ Capitan/System/Installation piece. But once I ran with a 32 GB drive I was able to install Sierra, partition the drive, install High Sierra through the app store, then delete the Sierra partition. Only downside (which may have been inevitable after the original OS installation crashed) is that I lost EVERYTHING on the HDD
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| May 26, 2023 at 14:09 | vote | accept | jerH | ||
| May 24, 2023 at 18:19 | comment | added | Tetsujin | These are really useful resources - especially now many of the old 'createinstallmedia' instructions will fail. I'm with you on any plan to bring these more to the public's attention. Maybe bring it up in chat, see what the mods think might be a good approach. My own 'how to get old macOS' has been creaking at the seams a long time & I don't have the chops or resources to test all alternatives. Today I've managed to add Sierra & High Sierra to my stock of VMs… but I'm still not certain what that has gained me. | |
| May 24, 2023 at 17:55 | comment | added | David Anderson | There is a Sierra version that is not quite finished. (Some formatting and images need to be updated.) I have not figured out how to put the website back into Ask Different or whether I should even try. | |
| May 24, 2023 at 15:46 | comment | added | Tetsujin | I just made a Sierra stick using your first method from the apple.stackexchange.com/a/389830/85275 link. I've separated out the actual Terminal commands into a plain text file so they can be re-used, copy/paste [it's a bit of a mind-f*** getting the individual component names absolutely correct; you have to poke inside stuff to see where it's called macOS Sierra & where not etc.] Is there anywhere useful for it to go? | |
| May 24, 2023 at 11:01 | comment | added | Tetsujin | Sneaky… I like it ;)) | |
| May 24, 2023 at 9:13 | history | answered | David Anderson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |