So I get asked this a lot and on my day to day setup of any Apple silicon mahcine this is one of the first things I do in setting up a new build of macOS. All you need to do is open up Terminal paste in this command
“softwareupdate –install-rosetta”
press returned It prompts you to confirm by typing A press return and Rosetta is installed very quickly. You can also try this terminal command.
Download Sequoia from the app store. Once downloads plug in the USB stick change the name to MyVolume. Check the Installer has download by checking the Applications folder then use this terminal command to run in terminal to create the boot stick.
You will be promoted for the admin password. Then confirm with a y in terminal. The installer will go away and ask to give access to the drive (USB) older OS might not ask you this question. Once confirmed wait for the installer to setup the USB stick. This will take a while depending on the speed of the USB. Once completed the Terminal window will state the the media is now ready.
To confirm boot to the USB stick and install from the USB stick. Note If you decide to format the drive and it’s a silicon machine the machine will reboot. On a reboot it will boot to the current recovery OS of that machine so if Sonoma was installed it will boot to that and ask you to re install that OS. You will need to boot to the Sequoia memory stick so I would reboot to that stick which will allow you to install and test the USB stick you just created.
Download Sequoia from the app store. Once downloads plug in the USB stick change the name to MyVolume. Check the Installer has download by checking the Applications folder then use this terminal command to run in terminal to create the boot stick.
You will be promoted for the admin password. Then confirm with a y in terminal. The installer will go away and ask to give access to the drive (USB) older OS might not ask you this question. Once confirmed wait for the installer to setup the USB stick. This will take a while depending on the speed of the USB. Once completed the Terminal window will state the the media is now ready.
To confirm boot to the USB stick and install from the USB stick. Note If you decide to format the drive and it’s a silicon machine the machine will reboot. On a reboot it will boot to the current recovery OS of that machine so if Sonoma was installed it will boot to that and ask you to re install that OS. You will need to boot to the Sequoia memory stick so I would reboot to that stick which will allow you to install and test the USB stick you just created.
In this video we see how to create multiple OSX installers for different Operating Systems onto 1 USB external Hard drive using either Terminal or a program called Disk Maker X.
Here is a quick video on how to use preview on a mac in reducing a PDF to a size that would be manageable for any email client. Also show the option of using a downloadable filter to use in preview for different PDF size conversions. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4975061?tstart=0
Much like my video n Carbon Copy Cloner this is a similar video on how to clone a hard drive boot OS to another drive using a software called Super Duper. The advantage with this one is you don’t have a limited time i.e 30 days trial period. You can buy the full version but if you just want to use a software which clones a drive then Super Duper is a good option.
Super duper website: https://superduper.en.softonic.com/mac
This is a quick video to help you with a work around if you encounter the dreaded ! mark in red when you try and format a USB pen stick. Here we see two different operating systems running the two different versions of disk utilities feature for this task. First we will see the option on macOS Sierra then we go to Yosemite to finish of who to resolve the issue with a USB drive not erasing or formatting correctly in disk utilities on a mac.
