3 questions regarding the “Recovery partition” guidance
kauniss opened this issue · comments
OS: 10.15.6
I’m a novice Mac user, finding it rather tricky to follow this guide. I downloaded the latest Catalina installer from the appstore, and created a bootable USB installer as per the instructions. Now, I have questions regarding the next step, regarding the “Recovery partition“.
- Do I need to create a recovery partition when I am running Catalina? It appears there is already a built-in Recovery Drive (I have not created one).
After failing to achieve any results with the downloaded MagerValp/Create-Recovery-Partition-Installer (I opened the app, drag-and-dropped the Catalina Installer image (.app), and was ultimately greeted by “file path not found” and “Cancelled”. It’s highly likely I have erred but there’s also barely any instructions, either here or in the authors repository.
So instead I opt to do it the manual way: I downloaded the RecoveryHDUpdate, verified hashes, initiated installation.
- Apparently it’s a ”Lion” (10.7) Recovery update installer and so I can't install it on any partition. Is there a more recent version (eg. a “Catalina Recovery Update Installer”) available?
Further down under the same heading in your guidance, I read “expand the installer, then run it - again ensuring /Volumes/macOS path is the newly created partition on the connected disk”.
- ... which newly created partition? When was I supposed to create a partition? This is not clear. As I went from the "Bootable USB installer" step to "Recovery Partition there is no clarity about this. And I assume the "connected disk" refer to the one I am using and planning on erasing + installing a new copy of Catalina on. So if this is the case, do I simply create a partition in Disk Utility pre-erasure? How big should the partition be?
Sorry, I’m an amateur Mac / computer user in general and just need someone to explain this in baby language to me. Would be much appreciated.
Resolving to inactivity and likely outdated information by now.