Migration Assistant is not designed to install operating system software. That takes the macOS installer. MA is designed to install apps and user data onto a volume already prepared with an installed operating system.
There is third party sw on the market that does an efficient job of cloning a bootable onto a formatted empty drive. I have two of them, ChronoSync and Super Duper, that do a terrific job. G > On Nov 22, 2019, at 2:55 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > ... > Side question. I’ve got what I want on an external drive and I’d love to > just copy that over, but if I boot off the external drive, migration > assistant won’t seem to just transfer everything to the recently formatted > internal drive, so I’m doing the long slow installation of High Sierra, which > is going to take 2 hours, before I can even start the copy of data off the > external drive. > > Is there a quicker way to do this that I’m missing? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
