Hi Georgina and Sabahattin, Thanks so much. The problem is solved. Mavericks now runs freshly on my macbook. With ml and earlier, it was easy to simply unpack the big dmg file for the operating system, found in the downloaded app bundle. to a USB drive. This new way of doing it was unknown to me. This time I did not have to go through these hoops, but I'm definitely saving your messages for future use.
I found out about an interesting change in disk utility in Mavericks, when compared to the older mountain lion version, just for those interested. In ml and earlier, if you booted from the recovery mac partition, command r after the chime while turning the computer on, then we could not delete the macintosh hd partition with disk utility, as long as it was still encrypted. The process was tedious. I used to have to boot up normally, turn of filevault, then let it do its decryption process which takes hours, and only then can you reboot into the recovery partition, and delete the macintosh partition from there. Now with Mavericks, this is different. Whether or not macintosh hd is encrypted, you can now wipe it using disk utility, before doing a reinstall from the recovery partition. Paul. On Aug 16, 2014, at 10:08 PM, Georgina Joyce <g...@gena-j.me.uk> wrote: > Hello Paul, > > Yes you can. What you need to do. > > Go to your app store on the ML machine. > > Download Mavericks and when the installer starts, press cancel. > Then you can provide a command line > to write it to a USB stick greater than 7.9 Gb. > > Many of us did this when Mavericks first came out and discussed it here. So > you can look through this list archives. Or just use your favourite search > engine. I think there are a few utilities to automate the procedure, if that > is what you want. > > In reading Mac World's guide. They suggest you should boot up your machine in > recovery mode and use disk utility to attempt to repair the disk firstly to > ensure it is functional. Article link below. > > However, you should be able to sort it out yourself, I suspect. The machine > doesn't know your wireless access details. Either open up your wireless or > use a ethernet cable to link the Pro to the router. > > http://www.macworld.com/article/2056543/installing-mavericks-our-complete-guide.html > > Good luck. > > Gena > > > > > On 16 Aug 2014, at 20:06, Paul Erkens <paul.erk...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear listers, >> >> I have 2 machines, a mini and a macbook, where the macbook won't boot any >> longer. I'm now writing on my mac mini, which has Mountain Lion. I'd rather >> not yet update this machine to Mavericks, because I'm waiting for Yosemite. >> My macbook is indeed running Mavericks already. >> >> This afternoon, the Mavericks macbook somehow died. It won't boot. My wife >> tells me there's an infinite beach ball, and the system has been used so >> intensively, that I wanted to reinstall Mavericks anyway, and start anew. >> That is because my macbook had lion, mountain lion, and then I updated that >> to Mavericks, and the macbook deserves a fresh install. Unfortunately, the >> macbook won't boot anymore. >> >> I thought I would first restore my latest macbook time machine backup. This >> went, but failed before getting to 1 %. >> >> If I start up the macbook from its recovery partition and I then try to >> reinstall OS 10, it asks for my Apple ID, and it won't get passed that, even >> though there is a wifi connection according to my sighted wife. It keeps >> saying: signing in to the app store, for 15 minutes. Then I gave up on that. >> So now, I would like to create a Mavericks USB stick, and reinstall >> Mavericks from there. My macbook running Mavericks, won't boot, nor recover, >> so that machine is not an option to create the USB recovery drive with. I'll >> have to create a Mavericks USB recovery stick using my mac mini, which runs >> Mountain lion. >> >> From what I discovered, I can indeed create a recovery USB drive, using my >> mountain lion machine. I downloaded the Mavericks installer app, I >> downloaded the diskmaker program, but when I run disk maker, it tells me >> that it can only create a mountain lion USB recovery disk, and not one for >> Mavericks. This is because disk maker detected mountain lion running on the >> system. >> >> So, is there any way you can think of, that I can use to create a Mavericks >> USB bootable installer drive for Mavericks, using my mountain lion machine? >> I could update this mountain lion machine and be out of trouble right away. >> However, I bumped into numerous Mavericks issues that don't occur on my >> current mountain lion installation. So, if possible, I'd like to keep using >> ML for a few more months, until we have Yosemite. I'm very interested to >> hear your solution if there is one. >> >> Regards, >> Paul. >> >> -- >> 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > Gena > > Why pay someone to mess about with my food? When I can quite adequately mess > about with it myself! > > Georgina Joyce > Applied Psychologist > Training and Coaching. > Because individuals of groups matter! > > -- > 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
