Hi James, I was referring to OS X Server, and not OS X. I should have clarified.
Regards, Nic On Jul 30, 2011, at 9:59 PM, James AUSTIN wrote: > 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 c o > 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 >>> [email protected] >>> >>> 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 >> [email protected] >> >> 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 > [email protected] > > 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 [email protected] 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/>
