Hi Paul and list,Given that the previous owner downloaded the file, would he not have an instaler somewhere on the mac? Regardless, I did sign out of his account in the app store and signed in with mine (I already had one for my iPhone) and searched for lion. unfortunately I could not buy it since it showed a dimmed installed button. I have the sno leopard dvd that came with the mac and I suppose I could erase the drive and install from that and upgrade. Any better way you can think of?
assuming I have to do what I outlined above, how do I start? Have to erase first and start the install from dvd? Thanks so much! A very excited newbie. (Sent from my phone) Please check out my new CD at www.ioanagandrabur.com or on itunes. On Sep 16, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Paul Erkens <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Iona, > I don't think you need the apple id of the previous owner. However, you do > need to get hold of the lion installer app. Which is over 3 gigabytes. > Normally, you download this from the app store. Do you have an apple ID of > your own yet? If you do, when asked for your apple ID, you can fill in your > own, so that lion can be payed for, using your own apple ID. If you don't > have one yet, you can create one in each dialog where you are asked for it. > You can then put money on to that apple account using either itunes gift > cards, attaching your credit card to it, or you can put money on the apple ID > by using services like click and buy. > > Once you have the lion app from the app store, there is a way to burn that > onto a dvd. Alternatively, you can put the installer on a usb stick. Either > way, you then boot from cd or usb stick, install lion, all with speech > support along your way, then perform software updates, and then start to use > it by installing apps and putting your own data on it. > But now that you still have a mac with someone else's installation, the first > thing to do is get hold of the lion installer app. For that, you need an > apple account or apple ID. Then you must make sure that you can do purchases > with it, and then you can download the lion installer from app store. Let's > start with that. If you have questions along the way, just ask. When you have > the installer, say so and we can try to help further. > Hth, > Paul. > On Sep 16, 2011, at 6:59 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> As I mentioned in previous posts, I have a 2nd hand mac mini with lion >> installed that I would like to reset from beginning to change operating >> system language and other settings. >> >> During install, do I require the Apple ID and password of previous owner and >> purchaser of lion? >> Could you recommend a guide of re--installing lion? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Ioana >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
