TarDisk and Mojave

I also posted the whole thing a couple of pages back on this forum. : )

Yes, his canned responses are what have led me not to upgrade at all. He's retrofitting Sierra instructions for High Sierra users, and the complications are very unclear.

What he said.

Me, too.....

Neat.

I’m a complete computer novice but a friend and I are trying to install this on a new Mac running Mojave. Has anyone had any success?

Also had the same response from the site.

Thanks Pete,

This is by far the most comprehensive feedback on this thread.

anyone can verify his experience before I embark on the same path??

:D

Hey Stephane! Just wondering if your system is still running ok? Your fix seems the easiest. Best of luck!

Yep. After you will remove TarDisk, you will need to format your hard disk in the proper way, and after you will be able to run a restore.

In my case, after restore and system upgrade to Mojave, the system run buggy, so I decided to make a clean installation.

Step 7 on the Pear_TarDIsk_Mojave pdf. In the last diskutil step we need to put a “space" between HD” and disk0. It should be " diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ “Macintosh HD” disk0 " (without the outer quotes)

Both me and my Son have the same config system and have the same TAR Disk. I had trouble with installing Mojave and I took it to the Apple Customer Service and got an Upgrade to Mojave with my TAR Disk. Initially it had a lot of hiccups - But now it's great.

In my Son's case - We took it to the center - But they could not do it ( Maybe Different Service Guy). Finally my Son took the Tar Disk out and installed Mojave by starting with EL Captain or whatever was the original OS. So we had 2 Tar Disks - One is working okay with me - While the other is a Waste sitting there... 350 US wasted.. I guess.

Since my wife's Macbook Pro was on High Sierra, the instructions given by Tardisk did not exactly apply. I struggled with it a few times, said, "The heck with it," and went to the Genius Bar, first removing her Photos Library since there was not going to be room for it without the Tardisk. The guy who helped us zapped the laptop back to factory settings, removed the Tardisk and installed Mojave for us.

Then I went home and finished the setup, restoring from a Time Machine backup. Then formatted the Tardisk as an external drive using Disk Utility. Then copied the Photos library from a portable hard drive to the Tardisk, which I had named New Outrigger. Then opened Photos while holding down the option key, which allows you to find the Photos library out on the external drive. There's plenty of room on the former Tardisk in case her iTunes library gets too big for the Macbook's SSD.

PS: Before going to the Genius Bar I made a backup with the Photos library and another one without it.

Tried to update a Macbook Air (mid 2012) with 256 gb on board and 128 gb tardisk. Disaster. I was stuck in a loop of install failures. I finally 1) used disk utility to create an image of my computer; 2) erased and reformatted the on board disk; 3) created a bootable install USB of Mojave from online instructions (forgot where I found them); 4) everything is pretty much okay, but now I have an expensive 128 GB SD card.

I'm finding that using the Tardisk as an SD card is about the same as using it as a Tardisk. You just move files to the Tardisk. After the first time you open a file, your software will know where it is.