![]() This is exactly the same size as the original installer app that I can't get to work. The "Disk Creator" app has given me a drive (Sony USB stick) called, "Install macOS Sierra", which only has one visible file on it - "Install macOS Sierra.app", which is 4,965,270,857 bytes in size. I outlined this in the OP and reiterated that it's still occurring in another post (Command not found). I used the app "Disk Creator" 'cause the Terminal string, which I verified as being correct (same as the one you provided), didn't work. Mikehalloran wrote:If you did the USB correctly, it shows up as one of your choices when you Option-boot. It would certainly be entirely-useless were I not able to poke my head in here. This partition is emergency-only, so nothing is installed, not even my prefs or mail account. Pushing 6AM now so calling it a day will check in as soon as I can, but this won't be for some hours, so please forgive the response lag, and thank you all ever-so much!Īlas, you, Obi-Wan Ke'Cornies, are my only hope.Īlways one for finding a silver lining, I should share the thought that at least I'm able to see you guys again due to my VPN's not being active. To be clear, I'm trying to clean-install Sierra the conventional way 'cause using an image won't install a recovery partition if I'm not mistaken. About had it with reading Google-found threads on the matter and getting nowhere. I mean, I've never had to do this before Apple's installers have been fine apart from the El Cap situation where I had to alter the date and time. I've been stuck in this position for a day now - alternating between trying to install via the app and creating a boot-installation disk, the latter being something I'm not sure I should even be bothering with. Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sierra.app -nointeraction &say Volumes/SierraBootInstall -applicationpath Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia -volume The "Install macOS Sierra" app has been placed in the correct location for this procedure to work. ![]() I therefore tried creating a bootable-installation drive (not even sure exactly what this means) on a USB stick, but Terminal just kept saying, "Command not found". I read somewhere that installing from a recovery partition might do it, but I have none 'cause my spinner's baseline installation was created via an image restoration of Sierra. It remains in this state as long as I leave it. Now that this hurdle has been negotiated, the installation seems to initiate, but the progress bar reads "About 7 minutes remaining" with 0% coloured in. I managed to get around this by setting the time and date to anything around 2 years ago, an action inspired by my El Cap experience where I had to specify a time 1 day after the app's creation date. The installer provided a long message (2 sentences that I can't even remember the gist of right now other than to "try running the installer again") that prevented the installation process' starting. This is the clean installation I've put off for many years, but having deleted my previous full / fat one (the 840 EVO), I'm now stuck in this bare-bones spinner partition, dead-in-the-water and apparently not getting anywhere in a hurry. An 850 EVO will then replace this drive, on which I'll install 10.12.6 and all software from scratch. I'm trying to conduct a long-put-off clean installation of Sierra onto a partition on my now-erased 500G 840 EVO boot drive, which will be moved onto my laptop for living-room music playback. I'm so sorry to be visiting under this desperate circumstance, but I'm at the end of my tether with this and as a last resort I feel compelled to "bother" you for a solution.
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