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The whole "old installer" and "bootable disk" has been a pain-point since 10.8 for me. I have done 4 or 5 clean installs for friends in the last 6 months, and I
by escobar 11y ago
The whole "old installer" and "bootable disk" has been a pain-point since 10.8 for me. I have done 4 or 5 clean installs for friends in the last 6 months, and I tried to make a 10.10 or 10.11 bootable USB... no go - each time, a new issue.
I have ended up every time using my older 10.8 (ML) install USB every time, then just firing off the free App Store upgrade to 10.11.
- X-Istence 11y agoIn newer Mac's (2012 onward IIRC) you can just boot into a net installer, and it goes and fetches the installer from the internet before re-installing.
- danieldk 11y agoEven older Macs (2010 models): http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/07/apple-brings-lion-internet-recovery-to-more-2010-macs/ http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/07/apple-brings-lion-intern...
- KannO 11y agoWhat happens if no internet connection is available?
- escobar 11y agoThe main reason I don't do this is because I'm often installing the OS to a brand new (blank) drive that has absolutely no recovery on it.
- X-Istence 11y agoIt is part of the ROM. It can be done with a blank drive. http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/20/internet-recovery-lets-new-macs-install-os-x-from-blank-hard-drive/ http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/20/internet-recovery-lets-n... So the drive doesn't even have recovery on it.