Q: El Capitan

Thanks for posting the info!!  I probably would have been checking for updates all day!  Now I'll be waiting for 6 GB to download all day  :-)

I guess I should be lucky. Mine is fired up at 1.4MB/s! This is the max I usually get on anything!

Your lucky I guess.  Checking activity monitor, seems I'm about have that

and my internet is 150 Mb.

About 20 minutes -> 1.4 GB of 6.08 GB.  So, based on that, total time about 1 1/2 hrs.

I guess go start on an early supper or late lunch depending how you look at it.

Sure a lot of sending going on....~49.1KB/s. I've got a bit over 2GB downloaded already after about that!

I started 45 min ago and about half way on 10mb system. FYI, now listed on app store in "Featured" but still not in updates. Also, has anyone heard if El Capitan will now support trim?

David Farah wrote:

 

Sure a lot of sending going on....~49.1KB/s.

Could be checking/verification/packet requests?  I'm only seeing 5-10 KB.

just look for it in the app store search, or at the app store home screen... it's there, just not as an "update", but as a stand alone download...

and it's downloading slooooooowwwwwww so be prepared...

mfairchild wrote:

 

I started 45 min ago and about half way on 10mb system. FYI, now listed on app store in "Featured" but still not in updates. Also, has anyone heard if El Capitan will now support trim?

Actually the most recent Yosemite supports it, however, it needs to

be manually enabled from the command line ("sudo trimforce enable").

Only works on internal SATA drives and is apparently all or nothing when

done.

It's pretty consistent. It ranges in the low 40's to the high 40's...sometimes it drops a sec to the 30's or climbs in the 60's.  2.52GB downloaded now!

Well, what I read was that Apple gave in and let third party developers have the code so those like me who installed ssd's can use third party apps instead of having to use the command line.

I shortcutted and downloaded from the store before the App Store told me to. It's not listed as an update though

mfairchild wrote:

 

Well, what I read was that Apple gave in and let third party developers have the code so those like me who installed ssd's can use third party apps instead of having to use the command line.

All they do is simply execute that code as well now instead of messing with kexts.

They may add other "window dressing" but that is all they do now.

It's not listed as an update though

And it wouldn't be because it is not an Update, it's an Upgrade.

Not sure if I may have crapped things up or not, I just paused and restarted the download

and it jumped from ~1MB/sec to 21 MB/sec.  Cross my fingers.

And at 2:56 PM EDT, it just finished.  Downloaded bytes in Activity monitor seem to agree

its all there (if my math is correct).  Backing up the installer to my server now.

Trying to decide which of my 4 Macs is going to be the first guinea pig.

If you want to make a SD card / USB installer disk,  quit the installer after download.

If your Flash is named "Untitled" and the download is complete sitting in your applications folder.

7.67GB is required of a 8GB SDcard

copy and paste:

sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app --nointeraction