Well, I had this issue. If you have a 8GB thumb stick, or a external hard drive you can partition, then you can create a bootable installer with disc maker X. You boot in to that, and then your able to wipe the main hard drive and install mavericks. Minister Miller
(http://facebook.com/CCMarriage http://twitter.com/MinisterKliph http://christledmarriage.wordpress.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/committed-married-christians/ > On Jul 27, 2014, at 4:53 PM, Joshua Tubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well crap. Yosemite isn't letting me get Mavericks because it's > complaining that I already have 10.10, why would I possibly want to > downgrade? > I guess I'm kind of stuck now. Unless I can find the installer some place > else. > > On 7/27/14, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote: >> Let's keep this as simple as possible, eh? No command line required at this >> time. All data on the startup disk will be spifflicated. >> >> Disk Utility is in the installer. All you have to do is get the installer >> running somehow. >> >> Boot from the network by pressing Command+Option+R at the chime. Your Mac >> must originally have come with, or be firmware-updated to support, >> installing the version of OS X you desire. >> >> The more foolproof solution is to build yourself an installer flash drive. >> Use the Mac App Store to fetch yourself a copy of the installer for your >> chosen OS first. We'll take it from there, if that's where you want to go. >> >> In Disk Utility, however you get to it, simply choose the name of the disk >> in the table (not a partition), choose the Partition tab, set the layout to >> 1 partition, type a name (usually "Macintosh HD" although I sometimes call >> my SSDs "Macintosh SSD" as a kind of petty protest), set the format to "Mac >> OS Extended (Journaled)", press the Options button, set the scheme to "GUID >> Partition Table", press OK in the dialog after setting the option, press >> Apply, read the warning, and finally press Partition. Wait a bit, quit Disk >> Utility when it's done, launch the installer, and off you go. >> >> Any questions? :) >> >> -- >> 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.
