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armenh · 08-31-2021

I'm certain the answer to this is "you can't," but I figured I'd try here.I want to get some VPP licenses for the Catalina installer so I can scope them out to some machines without them having to hit our Jamf servers. Unfortunately, Apple School Man...

armenh · 03-03-2021

I have a one step Self Service policy that we use to wipe Catalina machines. Since Big Sur came out, the --eraseinstall command is downloading and installing Big Sur. Has anybody encountered this or figured out how to stop it from happening? Thanks!

armenh · 08-31-2021

Yes, apologies. I should have clarified that we have a mix of Mojave and Catalina that this script needs to work on.

armenh · 08-31-2021

After revisiting this issue, it seems that if the user has downloaded the Big Sur installer and it was located in the /Applications folder, the erase install will ignore the Catalina installer and install Big Sur.

armenh · 08-31-2021

Unfortunately "softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer" requires Catalina or higher, that argument does not exist in Mojave.

armenh · 03-05-2021

I tried to replicate it and could not, my test systems successfully wiped and reinstalled Catalina. I have two policies. The first which is an upgrade to 10.15.7 that users have been using for weeks with no issues. The second, which I've been testing...

armenh · 03-03-2021

I'll double check what's in the pkg but if the command is pointing to /Applications/Install macOS Catalina.app/Contents/Resources/startosinstall , how could that be installing Big Sur accidentally?

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