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My 2 new MacBook Pros, 2 MacBooks, and 2 iMacs all show the Supplement as successfully installing, so I'm not sure how to get this older MacBook Pro to install the Supplement. The final release of macOS 10.13 High Sierra is now available to download as of September 25, 2017. But it doesn't even show the 10.13.2 Supplement as an option to install anymore - it says my machine is up to date - but I doubt it. I checked in AppStore and the last up date is a set of patches for 10.13.2 installed on 12/24/17. However, the machine rebooted and gave a notification that the install could not be completed automatically - with no further info of what to do next. I went to the AppStore again and tried to install the 10.13.2 Supplement again and this time it downloaded and gave me the progress bar like it was installing. I was back up and running with no apparent issues, so I ran another Time Machine backup for good measure. I then did a recovery from the same time capsule backup once more and this time it worked flawlessly. I booted into recovery mode again and used disk utility to reformat the drive. The recovery completed and machine rebooted, but machine gave the circle with a slash through it suggesting the hard drive was corrupt, not found, or not bootable. I recovered from a recent full Time Machine backup from my Time Capsule. I then proceeded to reset the NVRAM after which point the laptop booted straight into recovery mode. My keyboard backlight was the only indication the machine was on, and it would go off and allow me to start a new attempt, if I held the power off for 10s. I got a tone, then a black screen in each case. To be clear, recovery mode would not get an Apple logo or go on to the recovery mode options. I tried booting to safe-mode, recovery-mode, and a force boot - none of those made any difference - none got a progress bar, Apple logo, or anything but a black screen.
I tried to restart the machine and it made its tone but then did nothing further. After 3 hours of staring at a black screen (no progress bar ever appeared), I forced the power off by holding the power button for 10 seconds.
I tried the install from the AppStore and the machine basically bricked.
Machine: early 2011 15" Macbook Pro with 16GB RAM and 500GB SSD that is only about 30% full. How To Obtain/Purchase/Download macOS Server for macOS 10.13 High Sierra WARNING: As of September 2018 Apple has gutted macOS Server and removed most/all of the useful Server features macOS Server 5.4-5.6.3 was replaced with macOS Server 5.7.1 on the 28th September 2018.