So, I’m planning on installing an older version of macOS on my MacBook Air 2017, high-five with 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB storage,
However to install an older version of macOS that won’t install through other macOS recovery order system preferences application, but is recovery but it is compatible with your Mac. You may need to use the USB hard drive.
I have a 2 TB USB flash drive that connects for the USB a port.
I want on Apple support websites, got the macOS Mojave turned up 14 installer, plugged in my USB drive, copied the time in all commands to make my USB drive bootable. Here’s the tricky part.
I open up terminal, I scroll around, and I don’t know what the hell I’m doing, I’ll try and paste it. In some text field, I press enter. Nope, Dom, well, what do I do,. Click around on a few buttons, mess runs it, try and get it to work. No. I’m getting really impatient. Now,, this computer is a stupid piece of junk, and it doesn’t even tell me how to use terminal VoiceOver. Well Apple, what do you have to say for yourself and not one? Okay I start pressing buttons on the keyboard, instead of rage , I start smashing keyboards like a smash puppets and beating the puppets. Okay dammit that’s not helping at all, I will probably emoji worse. Okay chill, maybe you can search how to use it on the Internet. No, Dan, let’s not forget macOS Monterey’s are slow as New York City is rush-hour, so here I am typing this on my iPad 2020 2SE, hoping to God somebody responds with the answer I need.
How can I access the terminal? Please help me?
By Dominic, 5 May, 2023
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from what I understand, you type in your adminastrative password to get what you’re doing to work. I don’t know mucy of terminal, but what I do no of it is paint the command from the apple support article on the subject, and before you press return, enter sudo before the command. then you should get what you are looking for. Terminal is very much a unix thing, and VoiceOver does not support it very well. but TDSR is the better screen reader to use, as it was specificly written for accessing Terminal.
I have a support worker
Open good luck with technology. Managed to help me revive my old windows XP desktop I can try and see if yh he can help me later
The thing I've heard most often
The one thing I've heard most often about using terminal is . . . don't. Terminal is only for those who know exactly what they're doing. You can seriously mess up your operating system if you don't know what you're doing or even if you just aren't paying close attention to what you're typing.
My advice? Find something harmless to mess with.
Do not use terminal unless…
Do not use terminal unless you know what the hell you're doing. And to the original poster, you don't need to prefix sudo on every command you're doing, only prefix sudo if you're doing administrative tasks. I mean, you can technically prefix sudo on every command you're gunna do but who the hell wants to do that. Again, do your research! Secondly, I do wish that VO had better support for terminal. It's one of the reasons why I don't do sysadmin stuff on mac these days. I use windows for that! True, I can read shit after stuff is done outputting, but if VO is gunna interrupt every text that comes in on screen? No! It's NVDA and the linux subsystem for windows for me all the way with this stuff but it's whatever floats your boat.
TDSR if you already use Linux
I use TDSR in terminal as it's much more like SpeakUp on a Linux console, which I was already comfortable with. Yes it's a bit of a pain to set up, and I have seen updates to Mac OS break it, which is frustrating, as it forces me to spend a few hours doing a fresh TDSR install. And I can't access text that has scrolled off the top. Despite all that, I find it easier to work with than VoiceOver.
I think the OP's issue has already been addressed, but to repeat, you have to interact with the Terminal shell. Not sure how this relates to installing Mac OS on the external drive, though.
I often hear people say, don't use Terminal if you don't know what you're doing. My response is, if you don't know what you're doing, learn. Here's an example of how Terminal can make your life easier. After my daughter reinstalled Mac OS, she found she was no longer the owner of her music library. She was fixing this in Finder, changing permissions on each individual album. One, album, at, a, time. I said, "I might be able to fix that for you." I opened terminal, found her music library, and piped the output from a recursive find command to chown. In short order, she had full access to her entire music library.
Console-mode terminals used to be the one and only way to use computers, and they were 100% accessible with simple screen readers. Yes, it is entirely possible to erase your hard drive with a single command. Guess what. It's also possible to erase your iPhone with a couple of taps. Don't fear the Terminal. Use the Terminal. Be the Terminal.
Terminal not needed
Hi there,
If I understand the OP correctly, they wish to have a fresh install of MacOS Mojave? And they have a 2017 MacBook Air?
The simple, though time consuming process is as follows:
HTH
the command line/terminal breaks things?
I'm on windows but people are acting like if you even open the command line, or terminal, your computer is going to explode.
I don't know how it is on the mac but on windows it will just tell you something like, command not found.