Oh, I see, take the Install.esd from a Win 11 Installation media & put it into Win 10 Installation media. Then do the install using the altered Win 10 media to end up with Win 11. It seems to be ingenious because the requirement checks are outside the .esd. But -- even if the installation process doesn't need TPM to be present during the install -- what about afterward when running Win 11? What happens when it tries to use it?
If TPM is not there it will just not use it.
BTW.
I just upgraded my Lenovo Yoga 920 from 19043.1081 to Win 11 and everything seems to work fine on this machine.
This one has all the prerequisites so I was not expecting any issues.
The only problem is that, since they changed the Taskbar using extra space , they also rearranged all my Icons on the desktop sorted alphabetically, so I had to put them back manually the way they were before the update.
Not a big deal, just an annoyance. 😉
I'll back it up and then restore my 21H1 system waiting for the official Win 11 MS build next week....