Re: Clean installation of Yosemite stalled

2015-04-23 Thread Rachel Feinberg
There's a command you can paste into terminal and assuming you have the OS installer,it does the rest. > On Apr 23, 2015, at 6:04 AM, Kliph wrote: > > What program did you use to create a bootible drive? > > Sent from my MobileOffice > >> On Apr 22, 2015, at 5:52 PM, Rachel Feinberg wrote: >

Re: Clean installation of Yosemite stalled

2015-04-23 Thread Kliph
What program did you use to create a bootible drive? Sent from my MobileOffice > On Apr 22, 2015, at 5:52 PM, Rachel Feinberg wrote: > > Hello all, > > I appreciate this information so much! I did what one person from here > suggested, held down the option key as the computer was booting, pla

Re: Clean installation of Yosemite stalled

2015-04-22 Thread Rachel Feinberg
Hello all, I appreciate this information so much! I did what one person from here suggested, held down the option key as the computer was booting, played the “let’s guess which drive the Mac will boot from” game, and landed on my bootable drive! I waited a bit, started Voiceover, and it did all

Re: Clean installation of Yosemite stalled

2015-04-22 Thread Erik Heil
Hello, Do you wireless information is stored within NV RAM. As such, if you have previously entered security of mission for wireless networks, it is automatically entered. It will automatically connect to a wireless network if it has previously associated it with your iCloud account. For more in

Re: Clean installation of Yosemite stalled

2015-04-22 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, If you did indeed create a bootable drive, then you may not need the Internet Recovery Partition. That bootable drive could be used as your Startup Disk and Installation device. As Phil mentioned, start your Mac with while the Option key is down, wait about 5 seconds or so after the chime

Re: Clean installation of Yosemite stalled

2015-04-22 Thread Grant Hardy
Hi Rachel, to install from a bootable drive you don’t normally start from the recovery partition. The procedure would have been to hold down the OPTION KEY as your Mac restarted to bring up the boot menu, then select your USB drive. I use the TAB KEY to get around the boot menu. It sometimes can

Re: Clean installation of Yosemite stalled

2015-04-22 Thread Phil Halton
You may have a race the entire hard drive. When I look under disk utilities I can recognize the recovery partition and distinguish it from the regular Macintosh HD system by the text description field off to the far right. The recovery partition occupies about 1.4 GB, and the Macintosh HD occupi

Re: Clean installation of Yosemite stalled

2015-04-22 Thread Rachel Feinberg
thanks much. this information has been quite helpful. On 4/22/2015 10:59 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: Yes, it does use the Internet to connect to Apple’s servers. Info on this is found here... https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT201314 I haven’t tried it, but, I’m guessing that the initial place wh

Re: Clean installation of Yosemite stalled

2015-04-22 Thread Tim Kilburn
Yes, it does use the Internet to connect to Apple’s servers. Info on this is found here... https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT201314 I haven’t tried it, but, I’m guessing that the initial place where you need to select a wireless network probably isn’t accessible since there’s been no real bas

Re: Clean installation of Yosemite stalled

2015-04-22 Thread Rachel Feinberg
Hi Tim, thanks for this tip! In trying it I haven't had luck so far, however, just wondering if this contacts Apple's servers, does this require internet connectivity? And if nothing is installed, it'd make connecting difficult. If, in fact, that's what's needed. On 4/22/2015 10:37 AM, Tim Ki

Re: Clean installation of Yosemite stalled

2015-04-22 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Yes, you likely have affected the Recovery Partition. Try starting with cmd-option-r which should start up from Apple’s servers. It may take a little longer to boot up, but you should be able to install from there. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Apr 22, 2015, at 11:30,

Clean installation of Yosemite stalled

2015-04-22 Thread Rachel Feinberg
Hi all, A quick question on clean installing OS X. I wanted to clean install before putting Yosemite on my Macbook Air. I made a bootable drive, booted into the recovery partition by holding down command+R then pressing command+F5 until Voiceover started up and I could format the Macintosh HD