I had a thumb Drive already. Unfortunately, the install, stopped halfway. So there was no choice! Hence having to do it the long way round. I am using Siri to dictate, so I apologise if this message is a bit stupid.
> On 22 Jun 2014, at 06:47 pm, Kliphton Senior <m.kliph...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 <kawa...@me.com> 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 >>> <christopher...@gmail.com> 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 >>>>> <christopher...@gmail.com> 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 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. >> >> -- >> 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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