Installing Big sur

I get this message when im trying to install Big sur. Help

Have a macbook air from 2014. It started first installing, but stoped.

"Installation failed, An error occurred while installing the selected updates.".

MacBook Air

Posted on Nov 12, 2020 2:09 PM

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Nov 12, 2020 2:12 PM in response to SebastianTonjum

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