Hi Nic I'm not sure what you mean. Bought the application?
Gordon 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 cou 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/>
