Yes, it's a Seagate, & I wasn't plugged into Ethernet. I'll give it a shot. Also, on both the Mini's I had TimeMachines attached on the boot up, can't with my grandsons as he failed to back it up even though I had given him an external drive & set it up.
Thanks so much. John. Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 8, 2016, at 8:21 AM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
