macOS High Sierra 10.13 is now live
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Posted on 09-25-2017 10:46 AM
Good luck, everyone.

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Posted on 09-25-2017 10:47 AM
Install macOS High Sierra.app downloaded and is ~19MB on my system. seems to be missing the payload the GM had.
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Posted on 09-25-2017 10:50 AM
Downloaded it about 5 minutes ago. 5.18GB.

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Posted on 09-25-2017 11:04 AM
Along with iBook Author v2.6

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Posted on 09-25-2017 11:05 AM
Appears to be handling the payload process differently than the GM candidate did. MAS downloads small installer app and then proceeds to download the entirety of the installer files to a folder at the root of the drive: /macOS Install Data.

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Posted on 09-25-2017 11:06 AM
The Server Version 5.4 seems to take a while to be updated alongside with SWIFT PlayGround 2 Version - perhaps they come a bit later this month...?!

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Posted on 09-25-2017 11:09 AM
The one I downloaded was also only about 19.9 MB. I'm thinking it downloads the actual content once it's run. I haven't run this dl yet on anything, but maybe it's something new?

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Posted on 09-25-2017 11:11 AM
@mm2270, it appears, from what I can tell from reading the installer pkg scripts, to cache the installer files at the root of the drive and then (unconfirmed, will know for sure in about 20 minutes) will copy itself into the 'Install macOS High Sierra.app' file after upgrading.
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Posted on 09-25-2017 11:15 AM
Same experience here, 19.9mb on a 2010 MacPro, even after it took 3 tries to update the firmware.
Macbook didn't require the firmware update downloaded the 5.18gb installer. weird.....
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Posted on 09-25-2017 11:19 AM
@Sonic84 Same thing happened to me. The download ended up being about 24MB... I deleted that and redownloaded it. I've now got a 5.1GB installer. :)

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Posted on 09-25-2017 11:30 AM
New Argument for startosinstall:
--converttoapfs, specify either YES or NO on if you wish to convert to APFS.

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Posted on 09-25-2017 11:31 AM
Same experience here, downloaded 19.9MB. After I hit install it downloaded the /macOS Install Data to the root of the drive. Going through the install now and will see if it compiles it into the .app afterwards. If not will try and re-download after install is complete.

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Posted on 09-25-2017 11:33 AM
I attempted to delete and re-download on multiple host OS's 10.9 and 10.12 and downloading from the High Sierra splash page or purchase history continues to pull down the small installer .app. Waiting on OS upgrade to finish to confirm full installer app after upgrade.

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Posted on 09-25-2017 11:37 AM
Went to a third computer with 10.13 GM Candidate on it, downloaded the small app, deleted it, hit download again, and it pulled down the full installer app.

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Posted on 09-25-2017 11:45 AM
After installation, all root-level installation files are deleted and so is the small installer app. After upgrading, you can download the full installer from the Mac App Store.

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Posted on 09-25-2017 12:24 PM
Does anyone know if there are available space requirements for the APFS migration portion of the installer or is that rolled into the 14.3 GB free space requirement?

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Posted on 09-25-2017 02:13 PM
@cstout Same thing for me, after completing the upgrade it continues to download the 19.9MB file. Anyone else having this issue?
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Posted on 09-25-2017 04:51 PM
On my Macbook the download was 19.9MB on my iMac the download was 5G.

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Posted on 09-26-2017 01:49 AM
Tried downloading on MacBook Pro and Mac Pro, both downloaded 19MB installer. Installed on MacBook Pro and tried to download installer again, still getting 19MB app.
I tried mirroring the full installer download but when I ran it I got an error saying components were missing, all somewhat annoying Apple.
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Posted on 09-26-2017 02:54 AM
I've seen varying results, it either downloads all ~5Gb of the installer or it downloads about 25Mb. All very odd.
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Posted on 09-26-2017 03:07 AM
Hi everyone, checking if you are experiencing below issue:
When dragging the Install macOS HighSierra into Casper Admin it does not extract the InstallESD.dmg from the installer, but instead creates a .app.TAR file, do you have the same behaviour?
We are on JSS 9.101.0-t1504998263.
Thanks!

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Posted on 09-26-2017 04:03 AM
Was it the full 5GB download or the 25/19mb one? I tried the small one and it spat the dummy.
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Posted on 09-26-2017 04:07 AM
it was the full 5.18 GB download.

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Posted on 09-26-2017 04:41 AM
I think a ticket to JAMF maybe in order.

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Posted on 09-26-2017 05:03 AM
Apologies if this was already posted
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/25/macos-high-sierra-security-vulnerability/
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Posted on 09-26-2017 05:38 AM
Using internal ASUS?
well...
High Sierra app store installer gets its disk images usingsoftwareupdated
, i.e. it uses a local Software Update Server ifCatalogURL
is set in/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist
knowledge passed down from a friend..
So might want to remove the URL then try

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Posted on 09-26-2017 07:00 AM
@sbt_servicedesk Did you get an answer on packaging with Casper Admin? Seeing the same thing running JSS 9.101.0-t1504998263 and following previous OS packaging workflows not seeing the IntallESD extracted when copied into Casper Admin
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Posted on 09-26-2017 10:46 AM
Not yet, they are looking into it, the case is still open.

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Posted on 09-29-2017 11:03 AM
I'm seeing exactly the same thing.
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Posted on 10-26-2017 03:46 PM
Has anyone tried the following?
- Starting the High Sierra install
- Upon first reboot, target boot into a different disk
- Copy / use the InstallESD.dmg from the volume you started the high sierra install on. Path below... /Macintosh HD/macOS Install Data/InstallESD.dmg
I'm attempting this now...
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Posted on 10-26-2017 04:26 PM
Nope...
It appears that
BaseSystem.dmg is now in the Shared Support directory which is next to InstallESD.dmg
whereas previously
BaseSystem.dmg was inside the InstallESD.dmg
