On Aug 8, 2016, at 7:53 AM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> How in the world was this possible? There was nothing on either of these > drives, one was a disk drive for my daughters Mini, the other was an SSD > drive in a mini of mine. Since I had experienced this twice I thought that > is how this drive should perform. It is possible. Apple supports something they call Net Install. But, in my experience, it takes forever and seems to only work reliably with wired Ethernet. • Install the new drive. • Plug-in an Ethernet cable. (It is supposed to work with Wi-Fi, but I’ve had trouble getting the network to stay connected through a whole install.) • Hold down Command-R on startup. • When your Mac starts up, it’s supposed to connect to Apple’s servers and run OS X Utilities off the network. • Choose the option to install OS X and be prepared to wait. By the way, I assume you bought something like a Seagate hybrid drive. I’ve been using one in my laptop for quite a while. It works great, but isn’t nearly as fast as an Apple Fusion drive because the SSD part isn’t as large and the caching is not controlled by MacOS. L^2
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