

After the installation is complete, shut down your Mac and then restart it using the USB drive again. These are perfectly normal and are part of the installation process created by the developer to ensure compatibility.ĩ. During this process, you may see some command line messages. The next step will use the "Reinstall macOS" option to begin the installation process. This step is required if you want to update from a very old macOS version that does not support APFS.Ĩ. When you boot into the macOS recovery environment, make sure to use Disk Utility to format the internal drive (the drive used to install macOS Catalina) to APFS. Mac Pro, iMac, MacBook Pro, and Mac Mini 2006-2007ħ.

However, even the Patcher tool does not support the following Macs:

#Install macos catalina from usb mac os
The drive should be at least 16GB in size and formatted in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format.Access a Mac that can be used to download and create a bootable USB installation drive.
