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When the installer finishes, the machine will reboot from the disk it’s just created, but you can just shut it down and move the disk to its actual destination.įinally, if you are using an external drive for your OS, you should probably go into System Preferences > Security & Privacy > FileVault and enable encryption for the disk. In my case, I knew that Monterey would run happily on both machines. So if, like me, you’re doing it on another machine, make sure they’re reasonably similar. Finally, when you come to run the installer, it will only do so if the OS is a valid one for the machine on which you’re running it.In particular, you can’t do this on an Apple Silicon Mac to get an installer for an Intel one, but even within the Intel world, you need a machine of similar vintage. If your eventual target for the disk is a different machine, if may not have the same options.

Second, note that the list you get shows the appropriate installers for the machine on which you’re running the command.

You also need to have sufficient space free on whichever drive you put the installer. Most of the recent OSes have installers of around 12GB, which means you don’t want to be on a slow or expensive connection, or in a hurry, to do this.

First, pay attention to the sizes listed in the output of the first command.

In my case, I had downloaded the installer onto one external drive, and then was installing the OS onto another, and both of these could be done without actually requiring my friend’s machine for which the new disk was intended. When you run this, it will think for quite a long time, and then give you various options, including the preferred destination drive for your installation. After quite a while, you’ll find an app named something like ‘Install macOS Monterey’ in your Applications folder. Then, once you’ve chosen your version, you run: softwareupdate -fetch-full-installer -full-installer-version 12.6.3

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Software Update found the following full installers:

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On my new MacBook Pro it currently looks like this: $ softwareupdate -list-full-installers This will give you the list of available installers suitable for your machine. You need to type a couple of commands into the Terminal, but they’re easy ones. So here’s a tip I came across which worked nicely.

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It’s not always easy to find the right place to download these from Apple’s site. To do this, you need a standalone installer program, which you can run from your Applications folder and direct as to the installation location.

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I wanted to give her a nice, clean installation on another external disk to use in future, and for that we needed to install Monterey somewhere other than the place where it was currently running. (Thanks, John!)Īnyway, I was helping a friend last night who boots her elderly iMac from an external USB drive, because the internal one is dead and she’s not currently in a position to replace it. I remember, a long time ago, when my laptop’s screen died, I was able to borrow a friend’s spare one and run it for a week using a clone of my hard disk on an external drive before handing it back to him completely unchanged.

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Most of us upgrade our Mac operating systems using the automatic software update process which replaces the existing version on our internal hard disk with the next version.īut suppose you don’t want to install it on the same hard disk? This can be desirable for a variety of reasons: you may want to test a new version before committing to it you may prefer to keep the existing disk intact you may wish to boot your machine from one drive when the kids are using it and keep a completely different world when you are using it for work. This is one of those posts intended to help people Googling for the subject, and to help refresh my memory when I next have to use it! Non-techie, and especially non-Mac readers, may wish to skip this one!