This is my personal build process for my Mac Book Pro. I rebuild about every 6 months or so. This process and several of the scripts are based on the initial restore process I ran into from Andrew Connell. See Andrew's blog post and Andrew's version here.
Some additional ideas leveraged from Jose Padilla's dotfiles and Mathias Bynens dotfiles.
Before starting a fresh install or re-pave, backup current virtual machines from ~/Parallels/VirtualMachines folder (or other location for virtual machines) to an external drive.
- Screen snap current Moom settings
- Clean out Downloads, backup any files needed
- Clean out Desktop, backup any files needed
- Clean out Movies or backup as needed
- Clean out ~/repos and any sub-folders (will be backed up by script)
- Run TimeMachine for a back up (if desired)
Run the backup-local.sh script to make backups of critical config files and folders. This script also makes backups of Applications, npm and Visual Studio Code extensions from a list perspective to restore as needed.
- Reboot and press Command+R during reboot when Apple logo comes up
- Delete existing partition (not the 2nd tiny partition listed)
- Install Mac OSX
- Create personal profile
- Configure initial settings with login
- Install Homebrew for applications.
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pkskelly/osx-install/master/scripts/homebrew-install.sh)"
For best prompt with PowerLine10k install the Meslo Fonts. These can be installed while brew installing core apps.
Install core applications and add some configuration as needed.
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pkskelly/osx-install/master/scripts/homebrew-install-apps.sh)"
Install apps from the store (mas app installed via Home Brew). Need to be logged into Apple Id for this to work.
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pkskelly/osx-install/master/scripts/macos-install.sh)"
Ensure nvm version (run nvm --version) from shell, then run the following:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pkskelly/osx-install/master/scripts/node-install.sh)"
Then run :
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pkskelly/osx-install/master/scripts/npm-install-global-packages.sh)"
This no longer needed since the extensions are sync'd when logged in.
brew doctor && brew update && brew upgrade && brew cleanup
- Configure local Git profile
git config --global user.name “Pete Skelly”
git config --global user.email “email@email.com”
git config --global core.editor “code-insiders -w”
git config --global merge.tool code-insiders
- Copy Virtual Machines
- Create directory for ~/virtualmachines
- Copy virtual machines for dev to new ~/virtualmachines
- Clone desired repositories from GitHub to ~/repos
- Restore selected repos from ~/repos backup
To keep homebrew installed things update, do this (you may need to run brew tap buo/cask-upgrade for cu utility):
brew update # download app updated formulas
brew outdated # what’s old?
brew upgrade # upgrade everything locally
# list all brew casks installed & their versions
brew cu --dry-run
# optionally update everything
brew cu
# cleanup everything
brew cleanup