Hi Nic, I am probably misunderstanding your comment, but I was able to transfer the downloaded installer for OS X Lion on to an external drive before wiping this drive clean and installing cleanly.
TC :) On 30 Jul 2011, at 20:25, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > Hi Gordon, > > Would it work if you went and bought the application? > > I know that's entirely ridiculous if that was the case, since you seemingly > can't even transfer the downloaded application elsewhere when downloading it > when reinstalling, but I guess it might be worth knowing. It completely > defeats the point of being able to control the installation completely, but > even so. > > Regards, > Nic > On Jul 30, 2011, at 8:24 PM, Gordon Smith wrote: > >> Hi Nic >> >> It's worth pointing out again that the DVD option doesn't work on the server >> hardware. >> >> Gordon >> >> On 30 Jul 2011, at 17:57, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> Yeah, the button is definitely there. I've done it, too, but it's kind of a >> roundabout way of performing a clean install. The fastest way I've found so >> far was to burn it to a DVD, then use Disk utilities on that DVD to format >> the drive and install the operating system. Installing OS X Lion, then >> launching its recovery partition only to reformat, then download the image >> off of Apple's servers seems ridiculous, even though that seems to be the >> method Apple even recommends. I guess, in truth, it was meant as an upgrade >> from Snow Leopard to Lion given its distribution through the App Store, and >> I can see why. Since the Recovery Partition it carves out needs the >> Application later in order to get access to the disk image on your internal >> drive, it can't format the drive nor reinstall it from scratch without a DVD >> or downloading a new installer. Now, if it only downloaded an application >> which contained an application to extract the recovery image, it'd be >> another story as you co u > ld >> then download the entire operating system off of Apple's servers from the >> recovery partition. >> >> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >> >> To reply to this post, please address your message to >> mac-access@mac-access.net >> >> You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the >> Mac-Access forum at the following URL: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >> >> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus >> and worm-free! >> >> Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting >> the list website at: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the > Mac-Access forum at the following URL: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the following URL: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
