[mac4theblind] Re: created a bootable installer of Mountain Lion with SuperDuper
- From: Edward Lewis Redfern <edwardredfern@xxxxxxx>
- To: "mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx the blind" <mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 17:42:22 +0000
OK. when I say format the HDD. select Macintosh HD in disk utility when you
boot into the installer. you get a window with 4 options. you only need to
concern yourself with 2. Disk Utility, and install OS X Mountain Lion.
Run disk utility, go to the Selected Disks Window and select Micontosh HD. tab
to the Erase Tab and there is a pull down menu. you need to select OS X
extended Journaled. then ensure your drive is named Macintosh HD unless you’ve
a name you like for the volume. then tab to the Erase button. it will ask you
to confirm to do so. Continue.
once completed quit disk utility. Command Q lol
now start the install OS X process. you’ll be asked to agree to terms, etc then
select the drive to install to. after that, let it do it’s thing and away you
go.
lew.
P.S: I advise clean installs only with regards Mavericks due to compatibility
issues.
I have tested and confirmed on a number of workstations in test mode a series
of errors now reported to apple where certain installer conflicts occur, this
is where, in an upgrade instance, your mac can become bogged down, conflict and
require not only a disk permissions repair and disk repair but also a lot of
reworking. If you’re going to use mavericks, I advise a clean install, or if
you’re going to test it, make a partition on your Macintosh HD and set a
partition for about 60gb or so. then install mavericks to that as a test point.
if you’re not happy, you can dump and recover your space to the HDD.
lew
On 1 Nov 2013, at 05:31 pm, Daniel McGee <venables134@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Edward, or is it Lew I'm not sure which. lol
> Don't worry, I'll definitely make sure I'll have a backup of all my documents
> and alike before going ahead.
> A couple of things if I may ask. When you say format the HD do you mean the
> Macintosh hard drive? Just to be clear and secondly, what formats choices are
> there to choose from I'm just cureious and I'm making an educated guess but I
> bet my money on that it will be Mac OSX extended gernaled to format the hard
> drive too.
>
> My primary purpose of making the backup of ML is because I want to go to the
> Mavericks root by just the update method. Now, I know you advise people to go
> through the clean install path but I just want to update and if anything is
> wrong with Mavericks or I find it too buggy with Voiceover with my ML backup
> would I be able to successfully downgrade back to Mountain Lion? If so, how
> would one do this assuming I've made my ML bootable USB 8GB Sea-Gate flash
> drive that I brought the other day. From Argos by the way. lol
> I've never done a clean install or re-install of a previous Mac OS before so
> it is all new to me.
>
> Thanks
>
> Daniel
>
> On 1 Nov 2013, at 17:05, Edward Lewis Redfern <edwardredfern@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi daniel.
>>
>> first off, ensure you’ve backed up everything. glad that SuperDuper works
>> for you. it’s a useful product and part of my toolbox.
>>
>> open up system preferences and go to Startup Disk. you should see your new
>> bootable volume listed. if so, select it and tab to restart. now you can
>> continue reformatting your HDD using disk utility within the installer then
>> installing your OS. it is important to format the HDD because otherwise you
>> will end up with corrupt data.
>>
>> lew
>>
>> On 1 Nov 2013, at 04:50 pm, Daniel McGee <venables134@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all, I am please to report that I think I've managed to create a
>>> bootable Mountain Lion with the release I purchased last year with my Apple
>>> ID that I made a backup to my external hard drive with.
>>> I did this with SuperDuper and WOW!!! It was like so easy to do! Had a bit
>>> of trouble understanding what was to come 1st the source or the location. I
>>> finally figured it out with a youtube video though. lol
>>>
>>> Don't know what to do after this though so any guidance forth coming would
>>> be fantastic but I'm glad that I've gotten the 1st step completed! :)
>>>
>>> Hope everyone had a fabulous halloween!
>>>
>>> Daniel ************
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