I would like to install macOS 14 Sonoma on an external partition Me too! I couldn't find an installer on the developer website. I downloaded the .ipsw "restore image" from https://developer.apple.com/download/ but I don't know what to do with it! In Disk Utility I can select my external disk and click "restore", and there is an "image" button, but the .ipsw file is not selectable in the file picker. Is this one of those things where you have to hold down shift while clicking a button and a load of extra choices appear? Someone must know how to do this....

We want to release the game with the same studio name If you enrol as an individual, only your real personal name will be shown in the App Store. To enrol as a business, you need a legal entity that can get a "DUNS number". Exactly how complex that is will depend on where you are in the world.

Me too! The only plausible suggestion that I've seen so far is to install Ventura on the separate volume, boot into it, and then upgrade to Sonoma. I've not tried that yet. I don't know what use the downloadable .ipsw file is. Maybe it can be used with a virtual machine, or something? If anyone has got Sonoma working as a dual-boot option, either on an external drive or a separate volume on the internal storage, please give us a clue how you did it! Thanks!

@endecotp's solution is correct at this time. We haven't provided a full installer with the macOS 14 beta (23A5257q). Thanks. Can you confirm that the process of installing Ventura to an external drive and upgrading that is known to work? I have seen some suggestions that there can be problems with that, but they are just "random posts on the internet"... Is it planned to provide full installers for later betas? (What has happened in the past?)

You can use Configurator to restore IPSW images to Apple Silicon machines. Could you use this method to restore to an external drive attached to the target machine?

The status of my bug report is now "Potential fix identified - For a future OS update". I guess that is an acknowledgement that it is a macOS bug, not something I'm doing wrong! Hopefully it will be resolved in a 13.x update and my users won't have to wait for macOS 14 to be released.

I have installed macOS Sonoma on a separate volume. Created a separate volume (https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT208891). Created a bootable installer for macOS Ventura using https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201372. Install on macOS Ventura on new volume. Upgraded to macOS Sonoma. I'm failing to make this work on an external drive; I can't get it to boot Ventura from it. Is it supposed to be possible to do this? I've tried two approaches. Firstly, I've tried to run the macOS Ventura installer and told it to install to the external drive. I then restart holding down the power button and am presented with the choice of disks to boot from, but when I choose the external drive with the new installation and click "continue", I just see a spinner for about a second and then nothing happens. The second approach I've tried is using the createinstallmedia tool. I've partitioned the external drive using the GUID partition table with a small "Mac OS Extended" partition and a large APFS partition. I've then used createinstallmedia to put the installer on the small partition, and booted into it, which works. I then use that to install macOS onto the larger partition, which seems to work, but subsequently when I try to boot into that, I get the same behaviour as the first approach i.e. it spins for a second and then does nothing. I note that the "Use more than one version of macOS on a Mac" page that you linked in your point 1 is specific about "a new volume of your startup disk".

I am making progress at last. I found a clue in a post on the macrumors forum: you need to connect your external drive to a USB-A port, not a USB-C port, at least on some Macs. (Mine is an original M1 mini.) Having done that, it installed Ventura and booted into it with no trouble at all. It is downloading the Sonora beta as I type this. "About 1 hour remaining".

This does seem to be resolved in the macOS 14 beta.

Finally working!

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This version can be identified by the presence of the word JazzKnob. Grep can't find this text. What exactly happens when you try?

It's likely that you'll need to permit BOTH booting from externals AND relaxed verification. On my M1 Mac mini, there is no setting to enable/disable booting from external drives - I've seen the switch in screenshots elsewhere, but I don't seem to have it. I do have the switch for "relaxed verification" but I don't believe I needed to relax it to make it work.

Is the file UTF-16 or something?

The "best practice" is NOT to have your clients share your developer account. They should have their own accounts with Apple, and make you a member of their "team".