Re: Installing older OS X
Re: Installing older OS X
- Subject: Re: Installing older OS X
- From: Charles Srstka <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 00:11:39 -0600
> On Nov 18, 2015, at 12:01 AM, Quincey Morris <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On Nov 17, 2015, at 21:47 , Charles Srstka <email@hidden <mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:
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>> I think what I did was go to File -> New, choose “Install from disc or image”, and choose the InstallESD.dmg file that’s inside the Mountain Lion installer (I think it was still bootable back then
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> At one point I got there, or somewhere similar that put up a Choose dialog, but because the installer is a package, I couldn't navigate into it to get to the disk image. (Maybe there’s a magic modifier combination that makes that possible.)
There sure is! Type ⌘-Shift-G, then “NameOfApp.app/Contents”, without the quotes, into the resulting sheet.
> It would have been clearer, I think, if the initial wizard window showed an entry for choosing an OS X installer, along with the handful of other things that are in its main list.
They probably don’t want to be too overt about it. Apple’s not going all thermonuclear anymore on VM software allowing their OS anymore, but ya know, don’t want to jinx it.
Charles
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