My mid-2011 iMac running Yosemite died. But I had a spare older Mac (mid-2007) and a Time Machine backup so I thought I was OK... except when I restored from the backup, it turned out that Time Machine had not backed up either the operating system or any applications (though all my other files/folders etc were fine). So now I need to reinstall Yosemite onto it to get any sort of functionality at all.
I have a brand new iMac running Monterey, and I've downloaded the installer onto there. Now I need to copy it from there onto the old Mac, but because it's bigger than 4 GB, I can't copy it onto a FAT32 formatted memory stick. Is there any way that I can format a memory stick in such a way that I can copy the installer to it from my new Mac, and still be able to read it on the old one? Or is there a better way of getting it onto the old Mac that I haven't thought of (the old Mac will connect to the web, but without any browsers or an OS, what I can do when it gets there is rather limited).
I have a brand new iMac running Monterey, and I've downloaded the installer onto there. Now I need to copy it from there onto the old Mac, but because it's bigger than 4 GB, I can't copy it onto a FAT32 formatted memory stick. Is there any way that I can format a memory stick in such a way that I can copy the installer to it from my new Mac, and still be able to read it on the old one? Or is there a better way of getting it onto the old Mac that I haven't thought of (the old Mac will connect to the web, but without any browsers or an OS, what I can do when it gets there is rather limited).
