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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
