I noticed that also and thought that's great. Kawal.
> On 18 Aug 2014, at 11:07 am, Paul Erkens <paul.erk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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? 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