Can't install macOS Monterey beta on M1 without Rosetta

As the title states I can't install the profile for the macOS Monterey beta because its a .pkg install that requires Rosetta which I haven't installed and not planning to.

Is that a know issue that will be fixed?

I dont want to install Rosetta because we use the M1 machines to test and develop the Apple Silicon versions of our Software and we want to make sure that we dont mistakenly add a dependency on Rosetta...

Cheers, Pierre

@thexash I've been avoiding Rosetta for similar reasons. Did you get over this hump? One possible option is to download the full Monterrey MacOS install package and create a USB installer. But that'll require backing up and re-installing all apps and I'm not sure if you would be able to get subsequent beta builds.

Hopefully a future beta build will be Rosetta-free.

@MiguelLira so the latest .pkg still didnt work, but I dug a bit more today, it turns out its just a collection of bash script that dl the certs... Why they require Rosetta for this is a bit baffling...

You can use https://mothersruin.com/software/SuspiciousPackage/ to open the .pkg, then go to the scripts section and sudo run the enroll & zopenmas scripts that are in the postinstall_actions folder.

zopenmas opens the Software Update section with macOS 12 Beta as the upgrade now...

Can't install macOS Monterey beta on M1 without Rosetta
 
 
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