That is why creating a bootible thumb drive comes in handy. My macmini came with lion, but because I created a bootible thumb drive, the clean install went off with out a hitch. Minister Miller
(Marriage Blog) http://christledmarriage.wordpress.com http://facebook.com/CCMarriage http://twitter.com/MinisterKliph http://groups.yahoo.com/group/committed-married-christians/ On Jun 22, 2014, at 1:06 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote: > It is important to note, when doing the internet recovery option, your Mac, > or I-mac, will install whatever operating system that came on it. For > instance, I bought my I-mac in late 2012, and it came with Lion. So, when I > did install Mavericks, and had trouble with it, I had to do the internet > recovery and once Kion had been installed, I then had to download Mavericks > and install it over the top. > > Kawal. > >> On 22 Jun 2014, at 05:16 pm, Christopher Hallsworth >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello Daniel >> As for me I did straight updates from Lion which was preinstalled on my late >> 2011 MBP to Mavericks and so no wonder rubbish have been accumulated. Lol! >> Well I don't know very much about this but the mac does offer internet >> recovery which can be invoked with command-option-r after the chimes or it >> will be invoked automatically if no recovery partition exists and presumably >> the mac is wiped clean. >> >> Christopher Hallsworth >> Student at the Hadley School for the Blind >> www.hadley.edu >> >>> On 22/06/2014 14:32, Daniel McGee wrote: >>> Hello Chris, am glad to hear that by performing a clean install you are >>> experiencing lots of improvements. Out of interest, before you did the >>> clean install did you upgrade from any previous version or versions of OSX? >>> >>> As for myself, for the clean install folks this may sound crazy but I've >>> been doing straight updates from Lion and as of yet, I haven't experienced >>> any problems with any upgrade. "If it aint broken, don't fix it." I guess >>> that's my motto. lol >>> However, I may consider performing one when the new OSX comes out in the >>> Autumn. Partly, I'm keen to experience it myself without any sighted help >>> and because well to get rid of some of the rubbish that my system may of >>> accumulated since 2011 when I brought my MBP. Like Chris, I could do with a >>> bit of a speed boost myself and so think I'll give it a shot come autumn! . >>> >>> Chris, and others I have a question about clean installs. Sure, I know why >>> it is a good idea to create the installer on a flash drive but my question >>> is this: If one was in a situation where they didn't have a flash drive for >>> whatever reason and they erased/wiped and reformatted the hard drive that >>> is on there system and restarted the Mac computer and held down command R >>> to bring up the recovery partition, Would it be possible to install OSX >>> from the recovery partition by obviously having an internet connection to >>> download the OS and go from there to setup there new system. >>> >>> Basically, what I am trying to say is that without any backup media of an >>> installer would it still be possible to clean install OSX with just the >>> recovery partition and an internet connection without nothing else. As a >>> side note: obviously you wouldn't do this but what would happen if a novist >>> completely wiped there Mac OS restarted, heard the chine sound and waited. >>> Would it just simply be well... broken? Hence, why a backup media of the >>> installer would certainly be a life saver. >>> >>> Thanks for any answers in advance. >>> >>> Daniel >>>> On 22 Jun 2014, at 11:21, Christopher Hallsworth >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello everybody >>>> Well my clean install of Os X 10.9 Mavericks is going very well. My >>>> startup time has been dramatically improved thanks to the clean install >>>> from over a minute to about half that time maybe less. It certainly can >>>> help to do a clean install if you have issues like that. And when I say >>>> clean install I mean that. Restructure your disc and reinstall the >>>> operating system from scratch. As you have seen from my note the other day >>>> I used my USB flash drive with the Mavericks Installer created with >>>> Diskmakerx rather than the recovery partition. I like to have my installer >>>> on file in case my internet is out of action which would be required if >>>> installing from the recovery partition since the installer base image >>>> isn't actually stored on the partition. >>>> -- >>>> Christopher Hallsworth >>>> Student at the Hadley School for the Blind >>>> www.hadley.edu >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to [email protected]. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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