Hi Brian, Did you download the updated drivers for EI Capitan? Huawei E8372 Drivers for El Capitan https://consumer.huawei.com/en/search/?keyword=Huawei%20E8372%20Drivers%20for%20El%20Capitan
Kind Regards, Ronni Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB > On 1 Jul 2019, at 10:03 am, Brian W Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Neil, > > Thank you for your assistance. > > I’m beginning to think the reason I’m having trouble getting a USB drive > bootable could be the way I’m going about it using the Restore option from > the MacBook Air. > > What if the MacBook Air (2011) to old to handle the Restore system. > > What I should do is get a copy El Capitan from where ever and install it on > the USB drive without using the Restore option. > > Trouble is I don’t know how to get hold of El Capitan in a form where I can > install it on the external drive. Would I have to go to an Apple shop and buy > it? > > I’ve thought of my old Clone for the MacBook Air with Lion on it - put that > back on the MacBook Air and update to El Capitan again. > > Trouble is I’m not sure how to go about doing that. I can’t remember if it’s > a clone made using SuperDuper or the old Disk Utility that was capable of > doing clones. > > But I guess if the clone boots it will prove it’s viable but getting it onto > the MacBook Air, I I’m not sure how to do that would SuperDuper do it for me > if Disk Utility made it? > > That would at least clean out any messed up Library or what ever is stopping > this Huawei stick from working on it. > > It is as you guessed a Huawei E8372. > > I’ll take a look at the pdf for it when I’ve done a bit of shopping and some > other stuff, dealing with these computer problems does come with a certain > stress factor. > > Thanks again > Brian > > >> On 30 Jun 2019, at 3:21 pm, Neil Houghton <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Brian, >> >> First off a clone of your Mac mini is not the way to go - the hardware of >> the Mac Mini and the MacBook Air are different. The OSX installation process >> installs what is needed for the specific computer it is installed on. >> Personally, I would not dive into re-installing El Capitan on the MacBook >> Air when: >> You do not know what the existing problem is and whether a system re-install >> ill fix-it >> You seem to be having problems just installing a bootable system on an >> external drive. >> Maybe we need to work out why you can’t create your USB boot drive – 4TB is >> definitely not too small to put a bare OSX operating system on – 32GB is >> plenty!! >> >> I’ll come back with more on the bootable USB >> >> >> Cheers >> >> Neil >> -- >> Neil R. Houghton >> Albany, Western Australia >> Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 >> Email: [email protected] >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Brian W >> Scott <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: WAMUG <[email protected]> >> Date: Sunday, 30 June 2019 at 14:48 >> To: WAMUG <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Is it possible to have an External USB boot drive? >> >> Well after re-formating the USB disk to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) I >> had another go but it didn’t work. >> >> Once again after several minutes downloading etc it reckoned it had >> hundreds of years remaining but after a couple of minutes >> went to 0 seconds and eventually rebooted and then said the target disk >> (4 TB) is too small. >> >> It left a folder on the USB drive called OS X install Data within which >> is file called installESD.dmg double clicking that >> brought up a window with another folder called Packages within which >> were these files.. >> >> BaseSystemResources.pkg >> EFIPayloads >> Essentials.pkg (5.6 GB) >> InstallableMachines.plist >> OSInstall.mpkg >> OSInstall.pkg >> OSUpgrade.pkg >> SMCPayloads >> X11redirect.pkg >> >> all quite small except for Essentials.pkg which I double clicked and was >> presented with the option of installing so I went ahead >> with installing to the USB drive. >> >> After a couple of hours or so the USB disk ended up with 23.2 BG used >> and with these directories on it ... >> >> Applications >> bin >> cores >> dev >> etc >> Library >> Network >> OS X Install Data >> OS X Install Data copy >> private >> sbin >> System >> tmp >> Users >> usr >> var >> Volumes >> >> But still not a bootable drive. >> >> I thought it prudent to make copy of OS X install Data incase it got >> removed by the installation process and because I was >> warned at the start I would not have the Recovery option when installing >> to the USB disk. >> >> So do I go for broke and try to re-install the OS on the MacBook Air? >> >> I’ll have a think about it but after how that went I’m not too keen. >> >> I still want to make the external USB drive bootable. >> Perhaps if I use it to make a clone of my Macmini which has El Capitan >> on it. >> >> Regards >> >> Brian >> >> > On 30 Jun 2019, at 11:34 am, Brian W Scott <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > Hi Neil, >> > >> > Thank you for your reply. >> > >> > The short WHY is I have a Huawei USB stick fitted with a SIM for >> mobile internet that works with my iMac (High Sierra) and my >> > Mac Mini (El Capitan) but there is something stopping it from working >> on the MacBook Air (El Capitan) so I want to clean out what >> > ever is stopping it from working. >> > >> > To make the WHY even longer; >> > Web pages I use were not loading any more while the OS on the MacBook >> Air was Lion so I updated to El Capitan. >> > >> > The web pages work fine now using my home modem, but when I tried to >> access the web using my old USB stick (from Optus, >> > mobile account with Exetel) that had been working fine since 2011 >> under Lion it came up with a warning to install legacy Java SE 6 which I >> did, >> > >> > I in fact updated to the latest, and the warning went away. >> > But the stick still was not logging onto the web. >> > So I figured the stick is simply old technology that won’t work >> anymore and got this latest one from Exetel with a new SIM and new >> > account. Except it’s not working on my MacBook Air but works fine on >> my other computers. >> > >> > When the stick is first inserted a window pops up with an Install icon >> which I double clicked and something was installed, what and >> > where I don’t know. The stick doesn’t appear as device on the system >> so there is no way finding an un-install which probably doesn’t >> > exist any way. >> > >> > I feel that there may something from the old stick in the MacBook >> Air’s system preventing it from working, (maybe the Java update?) >> > I can’t find anything in my Library and don’t know what to look for >> anyway hence the desire for another clean install. >> > >> > I thought if I boot from an external drive with the stick in the >> MacBook Air and it works I can be more confident in re-installing the OS on >> it. >> > >> > Of course I could just re-install the OS on the MacBook Air without >> doing and external boot drive but I thought there would some benefit in >> > having one and I don’t want to risk disabling my MacBook Air by >> risking what may be a faulty re-instal. >> > >> > I have a clone of my MacBook Air when it had Lion on it, but I only >> use the machine when I’m out, it mainly gets used to access the web and >> nothing else. >> > >> > So I’ll have another go today to make a boot drive though I’m not >> super confident after yesterdays fail. The drive I’m using has 3.99 TB >> available >> > and the MacBook Air has 208 GB available but I’m wondering if the USB >> powered drive may be too slow and that may be effecting the install. >> > >> > I thought of going to something smaller like an iPad Air but then I’d >> end up with a MacBook Air siting around doing nothing. >> > Plus I’m 70 now and don’t get about much any more so I don’t want to >> spend heaps for a mobile device when I already have one, >> > even though at the moment it’s one that isn’t doing what I want. >> > >> > Exetel support tried to help but once they learned it works on other >> computers they figured the fault lay with the MacBook Air. >> > >> > I’ve not tried to contact Huawei and I am not sure if that’s even >> practical except to maybe to find what was installed and where. >> > >> > Thanks for your help. >> > >> > Brian >> > >> >> On 29 Jun 2019, at 6:18 pm, Neil Houghton <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi Brian, >> >> >> >> Before starting anything, I assume that you have at least one full >> up-to date backup of your existing system! >> >> >> >> >> >> I think you need to be a bit clearer on what you are trying to do and >> why. >> >> >> >> Some thoughts: >> >> >> >> • If you just want to have a temporary external USB boot drive >> then you do not need a large USB drive. When I decided to upgrade 3 >> computers to El Capitan I created a bootable USB flash drive with just the >> El Capitan installer on it. The actual USB drive is only 32GB capacity and >> only 6.2GB of that is used for the El Capitan Install app. >> >> • This drive allowed me to boot-up the computer and >> erase/reformat the internal hard drive and do a clean install of El Capitan. >> Obviously this approach requires that I have already got my original system >> and user data backed up elsewhere. Then you need to decide what apps and >> data you want/need to migrate over. >> >> • When you say "I would like to wipe MacBook Air’s drive and >> re-establish El Capitan on it. (Why I need to do this is a longer story)" - >> the "WHY" will probably have a bearing on "HOW" you should go about it! For >> example: >> >> • If your existing setup is all working fine and you just >> want/need to reformat the internal drive (say change the partition scheme) >> then you would probably just clone the existing system drive/partition to an >> external drive, reformat the internal drive and then clone back from the >> external drive to your new internal target. >> >> • On the other hand, if your reason(s) to wipe the drive and >> re-install the OS is down to some perceived problems with the existing >> set-up then just moving the existing set-up to the external drive and then >> back again will most likely retain the problem! >> >> • The nature of any existing problem would, most likely, tend >> to drive the best approach to reinstalling the system and user data - is the >> problem likely down to system corruption or user data/preference corruption? >> >> >> >> I'm not sure how helpful all that is but my experience has definitely >> been that more time spent analysing and planning BEFORE you dive in will >> often save problems down the track and save time in the long run. >> >> >> >> HTH >> >> >> >> >> >> Cheers >> >> >> >> >> >> Neil >> >> -- >> >> Neil R. Houghton >> >> Albany, Western Australia >> >> Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 >> >> Email: [email protected] >> >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: <[email protected]> on behalf of >> Brian W Scott <[email protected]> >> >> Reply-To: WAMUG <[email protected]> >> >> Date: Saturday, 29 June 2019 at 17:23 >> >> To: WAMUG <[email protected]> >> >> Subject: Re: Is it possible to have an External USB boot drive? >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I found I could do it with the Recovery Disk/Partition. >> >> >> >> But it’s complaining that the 4TB drive I’m trying to put it on is >> not big enough. >> >> >> >> I suspected it must using the MacBook Air drive to store stuff so >> I’ve made some room on it and will try again tomorrow. >> >> >> >> 208.95 GB should do it I guess. >> >> >> >> At one time it said it had About 1,102,053,030 hrs 22 mins to go. >> (That’s 125,722 average Gregorian years) >> >> >> >> But about a minute later it continued on to it’s next activity. >> >> >> >> >> >>> On 29 Jun 2019, at 1:34 pm, Brian W Scott <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Hi, >> >>> >> >>> I have a MacBook Air 13 inch, Mid 2011 with Mac OS 10.7.5 El Capitan >> 10.11.6 on it. >> >>> >> >>> I would like to wipe MacBook Air’s drive and re-establish El Capitan >> on it. (Why I need to do this is a longer story) >> >>> >> >>> I have a 4TB USB powered by the USB port it doesn’t have a power >> supply. >> >>> >> >>> I was thinking I could use it as an external boot drive while I deal >> with the MacBook Air’s drive. >> >>> >> >>> If it is possible to do the above could someone please point me to >> some instructions for getting this done. >> >>> >> >>> Thank you, >> >>> >> >>> Brian Scott >> >>> >> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> >> >> > >> > >>
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