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Approved by: Sean Holden Confluence link: |
Description
With very little effort devices may be upgraded to Catalina using the provided recipe.
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Devices running earlier versions (pre 10.8 Mountain Lion) will require updating twice; Apple recommend upgrading to El Capitan and then to Catalina. |
Apple's full list of macOS Catalina Compatible Devices
Ingredients
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Confirm the installer app is the complete installation (8+ GB) before continuing. If the app is less than 50MB, re-download the Install macOS Catalina.app. A full installer may be downloaded through Terminal on macOS 10.15 devices. Example to download the 10.15.4 full installer to the Applications directory:
Typically Apple only provide the latest point release of each Major OS version: 10.13.6, 10.14.6, etc. |
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Associate Fileset as a Kiosk association for the end users to install in their own time. |
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Apple have known possible issues: |
Directions
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This Fileset adds a file to prevent re-running the installer. If the installer requires re-running, this file will need to be removed in advance:
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rm -rf /var/db/.upgrade-to-catalina-fw-installed |
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Download the Fileset attached to this recipe and import into FileWave: Upgrade macOS 10.15 Fileset
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In the Applications folder add the dowloaded 'Install macOS Catalina.app'; .fwplaceholder may be removed
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kbsurveyThis method has now been replaced with: macOS Upgrades or Erasing