To follow up the process took from approx 8:45pm to 1:30am before the restart and then a half hour to install the OS. However after it was all done my errant user still existed so I guess it's not a complete reinstall. I then deleted the user after creating a different admin and then remade my user of choice with matching name and password. This seems different than the restore from 10.7 where I thought you could choose the restore partition in disk utility IIRC. After a 5 hour download and restart the computer then went into OS install mode like with a DVD but as I said it didn't appear to be a complete clean install because my initial user was still there. I can see that might be by design but then how do you wipe a drive clean and start completely fresh? Am I missing something?
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, John Moore wrote:
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> Setting up a new iMac and I wanted to keep the log in simple but I realized after the initial name and password I gave the computer I wanted the name and the password to be the same. I'm not worried about security at home so I went to set up a new user with the name that matched the password I already used. I get errors about the name already being in use. Oh well I'm sure someone knows how to rework that but I figured I should take the opportunity to test out the new OS Restore feature. Or should I say the new curse. I started it and it's telling me the restore is going to take 7 hours and 41 minutes. WTF? I am supposed to get up to 3Mbps and I just ran a speed test that came in at 1.7Mbps but the OS restore is going so I figure that's probably taking up some of the bandwidth. At any rate almost 8 hours to restore the OS!! This seems ridiculous. I haven't done much googling on this but I didn't find any cheats like the script for OS
> 10.7 that allowed the OS update to be stored on a flash drive. Does anyone know of such a beast for 10.8.2 which is what this new iMac 21inch came with? The lack of the ability to have an OS restore/emergency disk or even partition that doesn't require a download of such extreme length is inconceivable to me, but what do I know. If the system wasn't brand new out of the box I'd definitely see how I could delete the errant user name I created and get the name to match the password I want but for the sake of experience I'm going to let this thing run it's course. Perhaps the time estimate will change along the way but right now I'm shocked.
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