{"id":63580,"date":"2020-07-09T09:08:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T14:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=63580"},"modified":"2020-07-13T13:42:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T18:42:44","slug":"adventures-in-installing-macos-11-big-sur-developer-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/63580-adventures-in-installing-macos-11-big-sur-developer-beta\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Installing macOS 11 Big Sur Developer Beta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/BigSurBeta.jpg\" alt=\"Downloading Big Sur beta from the Apple Developer website\" class=\"wp-image-63640\" width=\"640\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/BigSurBeta.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/BigSurBeta-284x63.jpg 284w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/BigSurBeta-190x42.jpg 190w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/BigSurBeta-284x63@2x.jpg 568w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/BigSurBeta-190x42@2x.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>Downloading Big Sur beta from the Apple Developer website<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-thumbnail is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/BigSur_568x646-167x190.jpg\" alt=\"macOS Big Sur\" class=\"wp-image-63698\" width=\"125\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/BigSur_568x646-167x190.jpg 167w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/BigSur_568x646-106x120.jpg 106w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/BigSur_568x646-284x323.jpg 284w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/BigSur_568x646.jpg 568w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/BigSur_568x646-167x190@2x.jpg 334w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/BigSur_568x646-106x120@2x.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Once the dust has settled from the excitement of the annual <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/63134-deeper-dive-the-wwdc-2020-keynote\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Worldwide Developer Conference<\/a> (WWDC), it\u2019s always time to start loading beta operating systems just to see how current apps work with them. If you only have one Mac and can\u2019t \u201csacrifice\u201d one to running beta software, it\u2019s useful to install the operating system on an external drive, then boot from it when you wish to test the beta. That\u2019s what I attempted&#8230;until it didn&#8217;t work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time of publication, only Apple\u2019s Developer program members can download and install the beta. If you\u2019re not a member but would like to be, check out the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Developer website<\/a>, and you can get all of the benefits of being a developer for only $99 per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometime later in July, we expect Apple to open and free beta testing to anyone who would like to try out the new features of macOS Big Sur. 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This profile registers your Mac as a beta device and the installer becomes available in System Preferences &gt; Software Update.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apple seems to have had an issue deciding if Big Sur was going to be macOS 10.16 or macOS 11 \u2014 we\u2019ve seen definitive proof that it is the latter, but the first beta still shows 10.16\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/SoftwareUpdateBigSur.jpg\" alt=\"Big Sur Beta -- where 11 is 10.16...\" class=\"wp-image-63642\" width=\"640\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/SoftwareUpdateBigSur.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/SoftwareUpdateBigSur-257x120.jpg 257w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/SoftwareUpdateBigSur-284x132.jpg 284w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/SoftwareUpdateBigSur-190x89.jpg 190w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/SoftwareUpdateBigSur-257x120@2x.jpg 514w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/SoftwareUpdateBigSur-284x132@2x.jpg 568w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/SoftwareUpdateBigSur-190x89@2x.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>Big Sur Beta \u2013 where 11 is 10.16&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One thing I did to avoid accidentally updating my primary boot drive to the new macOS version (and also to avoid having other macOS betas installed) was to uncheck the \u201cAutomatically keep my Mac up to date\u201d box seen in the image below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a click on Upgrade Now, the Install macOS Beta app was downloaded to my Mac. Once the download was completed \u2014 it took about 19 minutes on my network \u2014 the installer launched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before I tried installing macOS 11 Big Sur onto my external drive, I made sure that it was prepared for the beta. I took a 4TB external USB hard drive, erased it in Disk Utility, gave it a new name \u2014 Big Sur Beta \u2014 and made sure it was formatted as APFS so the installer would recognize it. Once this was done, I re-launched \u201cInstall macOS Beta\u201d, agreed to the license agreement, and then clicked \u201cShow All Disks\u201d in order to see the external drive I wanted to install onto.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/InstallTheBeta.jpg\" alt=\"Starting the installation attempt...\" class=\"wp-image-63643\" width=\"640\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/InstallTheBeta.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/InstallTheBeta-155x120.jpg 155w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/InstallTheBeta-284x220.jpg 284w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/InstallTheBeta-190x147.jpg 190w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/InstallTheBeta-155x120@2x.jpg 310w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/InstallTheBeta-284x220@2x.jpg 568w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/InstallTheBeta-190x147@2x.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>Starting the installation attempt&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Once I had highlighted Big Sur Beta, I clicked the Install button and let the installer go to work\u2026and that\u2019s when things started to go badly. The installation would run for about ten minutes, and then the MBP fan would go to full power before the machine rebooted and stalled at the Apple logo. I tried rebooting several times, making sure to have the MBP go to the external drive to restart the installation, but nothing worked. The attempts went on for about four hours\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that point, I decided to do something different since it was apparent that for some reason, the beta wasn\u2019t going to install on the external drive. I don\u2019t know what the reason for the installation failure was. I had gone into Recovery Mode and set startup security so that the MacBook Pro could boot from an external drive, but it just wouldn\u2019t work.&nbsp;I&#8217;m still checking the developer forums to see if others have had the same issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"long list of initial bugs (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/macos-release-notes\/macos-big-sur-11-beta-release-notes\" target=\"_blank\">long list of initial bugs<\/a> \u2013 after all, this IS beta software \u2013 but none of the issues listed seemed to be similar to what I experienced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My solution? Sacrifice a 2019 MacBook Air to the beta software gods, since I really didn\u2019t want to affect my primary work machine and I did want to get this article to all readers of The Rocket Yard as soon as possible. All the steps up to this point were identical, except I chose to install Big Sur onto the internal SSD instead.&nbsp;By this point, Big Sur beta 2 had become available, so that&#8217;s what&#8217;s running on the MacBook Air. I did not try to do the installation on the external drive again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This<\/em> installation went smoothly, but slowly, taking 1 hour and six minutes and a LOT of reboots. Since Big Sur brings back the lovely Mac startup chime, that meant I got to hear it repeatedly. Like most upgrade and update installations, the process is fairly boring \u2013 generally, you see just the white Apple logo and a progress bar. At one point, I was surprised to see the progress bar turn green and the Apple logo blue, but sadly that only lasted for about a second. Finally, success:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"814\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/SuccessfulInstall.jpg\" alt=\"Success! 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And it&#8217;s now macOS 11<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The first thing you noticed about Big Sur is just how colorful it is with its bright backdrop and opaque menubar and Dock. The menubar honestly seems to disappear, with the menu items seeming to float in midair. The Dock icons are more rounded than before and have a 3D feel to them \u2013 especially those for Mail, FaceTime, Messages, and System Preferences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are also new sounds associated with common actions \u2013 moving a file, taking a screenshot, etc&#8230; For those of us who have been using various versions of Mac OS X \/ macOS for the past 19 years, it&#8217;s odd to hear new sounds associated with familiar actions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being curious, I decided to launch many of the standard iCloud-synced apps (Mail, Calendar, FaceTime) only to have them lock up and display the dreaded &#8220;Application is Not Responding&#8221; error message. This is the &#8220;joy&#8221; of beta testing; my guess is that I needed to wait for all of these apps to synchronize with iCloud before opening them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PrivacyReport.jpg\" alt=\"The new Safari privacy report and opaque dialog window\" class=\"wp-image-63653\" width=\"640\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PrivacyReport.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PrivacyReport-284x115.jpg 284w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PrivacyReport-190x77.jpg 190w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PrivacyReport-284x115@2x.jpg 568w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PrivacyReport-190x77@2x.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>The new Safari privacy report and opaque dialog window<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Safari worked beautifully the first time I launched it, with The Rocket Yard being the first site I visited. You can see the new privacy report in the screenshot above. The new customizable Start Page is attractive and it&#8217;s possible to get rid of those things you don&#8217;t want to see, as well as add a personal touch with a backdrop image. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sure enough, after about an hour I found that most of the traditional apps were now loading properly, and after a night of syncing, everything was running smoothly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I were going to make one suggestion to anyone who is considering trying out Big Sur, it&#8217;s to just let the Mac sit for a few hours before you try out any of the apps. 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