Before upgrading to El Capitan it is wise to try it on external drive or install it on another partition along side your existing OS X (dual boot). But if you have an extra external drive or an empty one you can try installing Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan on it and check out its new features.
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Prerequisite:
There is only one prerequisite i.e high speed external hard drive. So either you should have external hard drive with thunderbolt or atleast hard disk with USB 3.0. If you are using USB 2.0 Hard disk, the performance will be horrible since the I/O operations will be at much slower rate.
I have Macbook Pro 13 retina with 8GB RAM, i5 processor and 1TB Seagate external drive with USB 3.0 which when I tested and it I got around 150 MB/sec transfer speed. Now lets see step by step installation process.
Step 1: Format external hard drive
- Plugin your external hard drive
- From applications launch “Disk Utility”
- Select your hard drive in the disk utility app.
- Select “Partition”
- In the “Partition Layout”, you should select “1 Partition” or at max “2Partition”. I had choosen 1 partition.
- Give name to your partition eg. “OS X El Capitan”.
- The partition format should be “Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
- Now click on “Options…” and select “GUID Partition Table” and then click on “OK”.
- Finally click on “Apply” to format and partition your external hard drive.
The SSD has now been formatted as a Mac OS Extended (journaled) volume named ‘MacOS’. Continue using this guide to format the disk as an AFPS volume, however if a Mac OS Extended (journaled) volume is desired you may now stop. 8) From the previous step we need to note the identifier of the new volume (red outlined box). OS X (or macOS) El Capitan offers two installation methods. In this guide, we'll focus on the 'clean install' method. It replaces the contents of a selected volume with a new, pristine version of El Capitan (10.11).
Step 2: Download Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11
- Go to https://beta.apple.com/ and Sign In if you already signed up or else sign up using your AppleId and password.
- Go to the section where you see “Enroll your Mac”, and click on the link “enroll your Mac” there.
- Now when you click on “Download the OS X El Capitan Public Beta” button, the download process will be launched in “App Store”. File size is around 6 GB.
Step 3: Install Mac OS X El Capitan / OS X 10.11
- From Applications, launch “Install OS X El Capitan”.
- As you proceed with the installation, you will be prompted to take backup of your data. Since we are installing it on external drive, you can continue with the installation.
- Click on “Show All Disks…” button, so that you can select the disk where you want install El Capitan.
- Choose the disk where you want to install the OS X El Capitan.
- Click on Install to start the installation process. Your Mac will restart automatically and you will go through the installation process.
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Note: This will erase all data on your backup disk!!!
Launch Disk Utility
Open a Finder window and navigate to Applications > Utilities and double click on Disk Utility.
The remaining steps vary considerably depending on the operating system you are running. Choose About This Mac from the Apple menu to determine your current OS, then make a selection below.
Instructions for Sierra and El Capitan
Select the backup disk
Click to select the disk that you would like to use for your backup. This disk should not be the same as your startup disk.
The name of a new disk will often include the manufacturer’s name (e.g. WD My Book 111D Media...). A startup disk will often include the manufacturer's serial number in the title (e.g. TOSHIBA MK50...).
Erase the backup disk
Click on the Erase button in Disk Utility's toolbar, then configure the name, format, and partitioning scheme of your backup disk. You can set the name to whatever you like, but set the Format to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and set the Scheme to GUID Partition Map, then click the Erase button.
Don't Use Time Machine
Click Don’t Use. You may use the same backup disk for both Time Machine and CCC backups, but if you do so, you must use a dedicated partition for the Time Machine backup. Otherwise Time Machine will consume all available space on the backup volume and make it impossible for CCC to use the backup volume.
Your new hard drive is now ready to accept backups created by Carbon Copy Cloner!
Instructions for Mountain Lion, Mavericks, or Yosemite
Select the backup disk
Click to select the disk that you would like to use for your backup. This disk should not be the same as your startup disk.
The name of a new disk will often include the storage capacity and manufacturer’s name (e.g. 500.07 GB WD My Passp...). A startup disk will often include the manufacturer's serial number in the title (e.g. 320.07 GB TOSHIBA MK3255GSXF Media).
Partition the backup disk
Click on the Partition tab.
Choose 1 Partition from the Partition Layout popup menu (or more if desired).
Click on Options.
Choose GUID Partition Table, then click the OK.
Name the Volume
Format the Volume
Select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) from the Partition Format popup menu.
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Click Apply.
Ensure that you have selected the correct disk for your backup drive. This step will delete all data from the selected disk. Click Partition.
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Now skip ahead to the remainder of the instructions that are not OS-specific.
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Video: Preparing a drive for a backup of the macOS in macOS 10.11 or higher
Video: Creating a new/additional partition (OS X 10.10 and earlier)
Support for third party filesystems (e.g. NTFS, FAT32)
Video: Preparing a drive for a backup of the macOS in macOS 10.11 or higher
Video: Creating a new/additional partition (OS X 10.10 and earlier)
Support for third party filesystems (e.g. NTFS, FAT32)