This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] Re: reminder: grab mac OS now

Friday, November 14, 2014

[Avid-L2] Re: reminder: grab mac OS now

So I'm downloading the Yosemite upgrade and I've checked out the link about making a bootable install USB stick. It's going to take several hours to download the update. I'm doing this to a newly cloned boot drive partition. I assume I run the terminal command after the Yosemite upgrade has finished downloading. Is this correct? I don't want to upgrade this boot partition but just make a bootable usb drive. If I leave this unattended will I be able to abort the upgrade after the download is complete. I recall doing that on previous OS's but don't remember the specifics of how I aborted the install after download.

---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <phinalcut@...> wrote :

Very good advice...

To add to this: make sure to keep your Apple installers on a volume that is not indexed by Spotlight. It would appear (correct me if I'm wrong) that the App Store can find and update applications even if they are moved from their original locations based on Spotlight metadata. You may find that your version .0 of something automatically updated (for your convenience) whether you like it or not.

Downloading my copy now....

-Ryan

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Jeff Hedberg jeff@... [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

As a reminder to all my friends on the list:

Grab the new Mac OS (Yosemite) while it's still in its .0 stage, and burn your USB stick now.
Download from the app store - but make sure to quit out of the installer before it actually installs on to your machine.
Then follow the instructions here to create a USB installer to keep for later:
http://www.iclarified.com/44701/how-to-make-a-bootable-os-x-yosemite-usb-install-key

Now that you have this .0 version - any time you need to install a specific version of the OS, you can start with this .0, and run a 'combo update' that you will find on Apple's support pages.
For example - if you needed 10.9.2 - you would find that here: http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1726
(google is great at finding these links when you phrase it like this 'combo update 10.9.2')

Having the .0 stored away for later use is great when Avid wants a .2 version, but all you can download from the Apple store is a .3 or .4 version.

Please note, I'm not suggesting installing Yosemite on editing machines that you want Avid to support right now! ;)

Jeff

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