Older mac os versions12/20/2023 ![]() So on that M1 Mini, I can see Big Sur 11.5.2 all the way back to 11.6.8, but I can’t see anything older than 11.5.2. That said, these won’t be every revision of that particular OS. The other thing to note, though it is also a benefit, is when running this method you may actually see multiple versions of the same OS in the listing. If you want to get older versions, you’ll have to get them from the Mac App Store or via Apple directly (which you can find with this link). If I’m doing this on an M1 Mac Mini, that originally came with Mac OS 11, “Big Sur”, it can’t get versions of Mac OS older than that via this method. First, you can only download previous Mac OS versions as far back as the Mac you’re doing this on. In fact, you can not only upgrade your Mac with the Terminal, but you can download previous Mac OS installers to your machine to use (which is really useful for making installers). What I didn’t say in that article, was there was a way to do it. Mac OS X 10.A few weeks back I did a post talking about how to update your Mac using the Terminal, and in it I mentioned that this only was for patches to your existing version of Mac OS, not for upgrading to a newer version like going from Monterey to Ventura. It was slightly smaller than Kodiak as it didn't pack as much nerd into it - it is a consumer OS first and foremost - so Cheetah's disk-usage is 659 MB Mac OS X 10.0.4 "Cheetah": Standard way to get it was to bu the box that was approximately 85% air, 10% printed matter and 5% being a single CD in a sleeve. DP1 occupied slightly more of the CD than the final DP4 release did, so you can count either: DP1 is 679.1 MB, DP4 is 676 MB. ![]() Mac OS X 10.0.0 "Kodiak": There were four different iterations of the Mac OS X Public Beta, but they all fit onto a single CD-ROM. You know what's missing from your big lists? Build numbers.Īnd because you asked nicely, here's some extra size data for the list: See Benton's comment below if you want a nicely detailed history of those early releases.Īnother special "thank you!" goes to Mads Fog Albrechtslund, who provided updated PR links for all the major releases-most of mine had broken over the years. Ziebell (for providing some size values on very-old minor updates), and to Benton Quest (for providing size info on all the major releases up through Snow Leopard). Feel free to contact me if you can help replace any of the "?" entries.Ī special "thank you!" goes to Mr. The "?" entry for Size on a given release indicates I was unable to find the size.The largest (non-combo, non-main OS release) update was 10.15.1 at 5.3GB. The smallest update was 10.3.1, at only 1.5MB. ![]() (Tecnically, it's actually the 192 day interval between the Mac OS X Public Beta and version 10.0, but I'm counting from the official 10.0 release.)
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