I had todo a re-install on my 2010 MacBook Pro with High Sierra from scratch, my copy of High sierra I had was corrupted and caused my all kind of grief. I finally downloaded a new copy on my iMac using the command line
softwareupdate --list-full-installers softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 10.13.6 After the download I created a bootable image on a USB stick. I did a new install of mac ports and my applications. Regards, Horst > On 5 May 2024, at 17:46, Riccardo Mottola via macports-users > <macports-users@lists.macports.org> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have a slightly off-topic question. > > I think the Hard Disk of my older MacBook Pro is failing. The computer has > long delays sometimes, in random moments. Maybe at login, maybe at > application startup. I never see error and when activity resumes, everything > goes fine, including GIT usage, browsing, compilation. No "pattern". Disk > Utility reports a verified SMART status and Disk First Aid says all is OK. > > However Console reports: > kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error. > > about the same time when he delay started. I suppose some kind of issues (eg. > going out of calibration, head reset...), maybe nothing is corrupted yet, > but... I suppose the only fix is a disk replacement. I wonder why SMART > doesn't alert anything, but maybe the detailed status should be inspected. Is > there a command line utility that can give more detail? > > My question is your experience in reinstall. > > First way would be to able to format, partition and copy all files to an > external hard disk, swap and reboot. I have done this once 10 years ago in > PowerPC times and it was not trivial and they sell software to do that, which > I don't want to buy. > > Second way would be to reinstall MacOS 10.11 (no DVD available...) from > scratch and then copy or reinstall things (including MacPorts, of course). > > With a "new" hard disk, what is the best way to reinstall OS like Apple > supplied? In the past I had some bad experiences with Internet install not > working/completing with weird errors. > Also, I'd like to have disk utility and recovery working. I wonder if it will > work or some magic partition needs to recreated? > Hardware Diagnostic Tools need to be installed extra, I have read. > > Riccardo
