Mikentosh2016 Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 I've been on my Hackintosh for about 15 months from El Capitan to Sierra. Now I want to install High Sierra but can't find the installation page. I saw it yesterday but didn't bookmark it. I'm not even sure it was on this site. I have an available SATA II SSD, a flash drive, High Sierra OS (downloaded months ago), Chameleon 2.3 svn r2716 zip and Chameleon 2.4 svn r2877 pkg.zip. Please provide a step by step link. Thanks, Mikentosh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0000-1248 Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 Well there are 2 ways you can go about making a USB installer which I assume is what you're wanting to do. You can use Terminal or make one manually. For someone new to Hackintosh I reckon use Terminal. Here are the Terminal instructions: https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201372Note that by using this method you need to install Clover or Chameleon onto the USB afterwards. Just make sure you don't have the High Sierra "Stub" application, you can do this by right clicking on it and selecting "Get Info" and if it's 5+GB you're good to go but if it's only 19MB you need the full installer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUTniun Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 Do all updates of your current OS first - there's a specific update for the App Store that's required.Once I applied it I was able to download the full High Sierra installer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwels Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/macos-high-sierra/id1246284741?mt=12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikentosh2016 Posted January 10, 2018 Author Share Posted January 10, 2018 0000-1248 “For someone new to Hackintosh I reckon use Terminal.” This build was using a install thumb drive made from another Mac. I will try Terminal this time. Note that by using this method you need to install Clover or Chameleon onto the USB afterwards. Yes. That is also what I wanted to use. I wasn’t sure which version. Just make sure you don't have the High Sierra "Stub" application,... Thanks. I will confirm. Qwels I downloaded High Safari months ago. I want to install on my second SSD, not upgrade the Sierra SSD. Do all updates of your current OS first - there's a specific update for the App Store that's required.Once I applied it I was able to download the full High Sierra installer. I have all the updates to the OS. I want to install on the secondary SSD due to my RAID being a platter drive and I’m not confident the new file system won’t corrupt it some how. Plus, Sierra is, with the exception of self reboot after shutdown, is stable. I want High Sierra to be fully reliable and operational before moving it from SATA II SSD to PCI SSD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikentosh2016 Posted January 12, 2018 Author Share Posted January 12, 2018 if it's 5+GB you're good to go. It is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikentosh2016 Posted January 24, 2018 Author Share Posted January 24, 2018 After a few failed attempts to clean install High Sierra to a secondary SSD I'm considering upgrading my M2 SSD Sierra to High Sierra. What can I expect to happen to my OWC external FireWire RAID, platter drive files? I want to convert to APFS but I'm not confident that it won't corrupt files and documents. Does changing the file system affect files and docs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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