Hector Martin on Nostr: The installer is thousands of lines of code. It does thing like build up a partial ...
The installer is thousands of lines of code. It does thing like build up a partial stub macOS installation file by file, from a .zip restore image downloaded from Apple's CDN. A "manual install guide" would be massive, horribly opaque to anyone who hasn't spent hours reverse engineering all this, and there would be approximately zero chance of a random person getting all the steps right and ending up with a functional system afterwards.
There's a reason we have an installer. If you want to see what it does, read the code. But nobody should entertain the idea of doing it all by hand unless they're *really* interested in learning all this themselves for purely fun purposes, and if they do attempt it they shouldn't expect success the first or fifth time.
There's a reason we have an installer. If you want to see what it does, read the code. But nobody should entertain the idea of doing it all by hand unless they're *really* interested in learning all this themselves for purely fun purposes, and if they do attempt it they shouldn't expect success the first or fifth time.