Ask Different is a question and answer site for power users of Apple hardware and software. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this community
This command was working previously in macOS High Sierra to install the OS via Terminal:
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Big\ Sur.app/Contents/Resources/startosinstall -applicationpath /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Big\ Sur.app
But I'm getting:
"--applicationpath" is deprecated in macOS 10.14 and greater. Please remove it from your invocation.
This seems to work:
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Big\ Sur.app/Contents/Resources/startosinstall --agreetolicense --nointeraction --forcequitapps
I advise you to begin by :
/Applications/Install\ macOS\ Big\ Sur.app/Contents/Resources/startosinstall --usage
to have more informations on options of command line.
open ______.appis effectively the same in most situations.