Hi Esther and others, Once my $6 8GB sd card arrives from Amazon, I intend to use that media to do a clean installation of ML.
>From a little Googling, I learned that holding the option key during power-up >presents a menu of bootable media. I assume this menu would be presented >before VO starts, so I'm wondering if there is a way (other than trial and >error with the arrow keys) to bypass this menu and boot from my MBP's SD card >slot, as one can for the DVD player via option-c? TIA and best regards. Geoff ----- Original Message ----- From: Esther To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 2:41 PM Subject: Re: Putting Mountain Lion on a bootable USB memory stick [was Re:burning mountain lion to disk] Hi All, The Apple Recovery Disk Assistant method is useful because it will work for systems which come with the operating system (either Lion or Mountain Lion) already installed -- for example, if you buy a new Mac, and want to make a bootable recovery disk. The method of using SuperDuper! to make a bootable USB memory stick (or SD card, as Shaun asked about) requires you to have purchased and downloaded an update from the Mac App Store. The information on using SuperDuper! can be found on John Panarese's MacfortheBlind.com site: http://macfortheblind.com/how-to-for-the-Mac-and-OS-X Look under the heading "How To Make a Bootable Lion Install Disk on a USB Thumb Drive" Another interesting point that Shaun's question about using an SD card reminded me of -- the recent MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models come with an SD card slot, so using this as a boot drive is particularly simple. In fact, there's an interesting KickStarter project on for "The Nifty MiniDrive". It's for a device that lets you insert MicroSD cards into this slot, so you can carry additional storage capacity with you in a way that sits flush against the edge of your laptop, rather like the Sim card slots in the iPad. This has the largest potential advantage for MacBook Air users, since the hard drive storage capacity can't be increased after purchase. They design this for MicroSD cards so you can carry the cards entirely inside the laptop without having regular SD cards extend outside the opening with the danger that they will snap off if you leave them in the slot. At present you can buy 64 GB micro SD cards that work in the Nifty Minidrive, but the MicroSD card format i n principle can be made for up to 2 Terabyte capacity. If you're interested, here's the URL for the Kickstarter Nifty MiniDrive page: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1342319572/the-nifty-minidrive They've already raised pledges for 300 times their funding goal of $11,000 to make the device, and there's 5 more days to still accept project backers. HTH. Cheers, Esther > On Jul 28, 2012, at 7:41 AM, Gordon Smith wrote: > >> That's exactly what the recovery tool is for Sarah. It isn't necessary to pre-format the drive as the partition is written block by block when you attempt to write your boot device. Sean, Try the recovery tool and point it to your flash card and see what happens. If the flash card isn't listed in valid install devices, then it isn't going to work. >> >> Gordon <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> 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 an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> 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/>
