Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for macOS updates

Re:Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for mac... by myrandomcomment on Thursday December 17, 2020 @05:26PM (#25461328)

Confused. Just run software update, and when the install starts, exit it. Look in the /Applications folder and the installer is there.

Run:

sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Big\ Sur.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MyVolume

Here is the support link:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372

I just did it and it works just fine.

UPDATE - I missed the fact it was the point release updates for some reason. Sorry. Leaving post as it is helpful for those that want to make a boot USB.

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Re:Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for mac... by smarx007 on Thursday December 17, 2020 @05:28PM (#25461343)

If you look at the article, the complaint was about point release deltas not being offered any more, e.g. 11.0->11.1. TBH, I didn't even know Apple provided them for download in the first place.

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Re:Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for mac... by myrandomcomment on Thursday December 17, 2020 @05:33PM (#25461398)

Thanks, for some reason that did not register.

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Re:Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for mac... by ehutch79 on Thursday December 17, 2020 @06:12PM (#25461750)

It didn't for me either. He keeps talking about standalone installers. Not clear he's actually talking about delta updates?

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Re:Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for mac... by w0de on Thursday December 17, 2020 @07:21PM (#25462293)

`softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer` is slightly more elegant!

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