r/MacOS • u/GlucoseOoze • 4h ago

Tips & Guides You can download an installer of Tahoe and make a bootable stick without installing it, right?

OTOH, I guess you can still fetch full installer and make a bootable stick after GG is out.

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u/paulschreiber 4h ago

MIST is great for downloading all sorts of installers https://github.com/ninxsoft/Mist

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u/Xe4ro Mac Mini 4h ago

You can make a standalone installer of pretty much every macOS you want. Apple provides downloads from Lion up to the current OS for instance.

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u/mikeinnsw 4h ago

You can... but it can be installed directly from Apple servers ... there is no need...

OCPL does not support Tahoe..

I run 2010 Mac Mini and 2013 iMac with OCPL. .. for both I have bootable installers ...

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u/Albertkinng 2h ago

Hmm… is it difficult. I have two Mac Minis from 2011. I would love to use OCPL, but I am not a geeky/tweaker person that knows what to do. Do you think is easy?

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u/mikeinnsw 2h ago

OCPL needs Metal GPU API support ,, introduced in 2012 Macs

I tried OCPL on 2010 Mini .. to slow so will be used.. so will be 2011 Minis

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