Think wifi is supported for internet recovery but I imagine the first screen to choose a wifi network would be completely inaccessible as nothing is loaded at the time.

Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
www.hadley.edu

On 22/06/2014 16:20, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi,

If one does as you've mentioned and somehow wiped the entire drive including 
the Recovery Partition, then you would need to use cmd-shift-r in order to 
access the Internet startup and do your install from there.  Things to note:

* an entire wipe is more or less impossible unless you are first in a separate 
startup system or within the Recovery Partition as you can't format the drive 
of a running system.
* I'm fairly sure that you need an ethernet connection to run the Internet 
startup system, although, I could be corrected on this one.

Later...

Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada

On Jun 22, 2014, at 7:32 AM, Daniel McGee <danielmcgee...@googlemail.com> 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.
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www.hadley.edu

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