Big Sur Beta 5 will not finish downloading

I have a Late 2015 iMac with 32 Gig of RAM. I am attempting to download macOS Big Sur Beta 5 and the Software Update stops at preparing macOS Big Sur Beta 5 (about 2/3). It has been stuck for about two hours. Is there anything that can be done to complete the download and install the beta?
  • public beta tester here, with same problem..my 2014 mac mini went to download the latest version and screen has been black for several hours now...i hope it's temporary, as i just bought this kit a couple months ago...i can't abide a brick...i can't get to the desktop to do any of the issue resolving methods, below..

    late 2014 i7 3.0 GHz 16 gigs ram

  • just zapped the parameter ram....no bueno...

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Same here (mac book pro 2019), i'm trying to download the update for two months (crashes around 90+ %).
i've tried all commands, but no luck - the download is starting but never finishes (i have more than 200GB free on my disk), i can start it all over again but it's all the same.

On my iMac 5K (same network), download and installed it the first time, no issues.

Apple ???