Newb Question(s)
I have a mid-2012 MacBook Pro that I am newly setting up as my own. I had to use internet recovery to get up and going before installing Mountain Lion. I want to update to the most current OS compatible. With macOS Big Sur having the requisite of OS X 10.9 on, I thought Catalina would be the most current option.
I have one internal(and no external) which was of a single partition(MacOS) and was the startup disk in use when I created a second partition(MacOS 2) to which I installed Mojave. Now, when turned on Mojave runs as default.
Here is what I know:
- System Preferences>Startup Disk shows two options:
- System: macOS, 10.8.5 under the DI MacOS
- System: macOS, 10.14.6 under the DI MacOS 2
- Mac OS 2
- Mount Point: /
- AFPS Volume under Container disk 1-which has 2.15GB-VM and 661 MB- 2 Unmounted
- Bootable: No
- 2.8 GB in memory under Other Volumes
- Mac OS
- Mount Point: /Volumes/MacOS
- SATA Internal Physical Volume
- Bootable: Yes
Here is what I ask:
Is the mount point being / the reason it is what opens upon power on?
Are the files under Mac OS necessary to Startup Mac OS 2?
If not how do I utilize the space formatted as Mac Extended best? Considering I want to update to Big Sur as well as (if possible) securely run Windows 10 for work.
What do I need to change/save(back up) and how to be able to restore my device-OS and Base System included to this point without much if any data usage? To Internet Restore and install Catalina I used over 16 GB of data which I would like to avoid in the future.
Thank you for reading all of this and I am thankful for any assistance!
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.14