Re: [Avid-L2] Restoring a new iMac quite the wait?

If you hold down option during boot, do you not have a recovery partition?

On Sunday, March 3, 2013, johnrobmoore wrote:

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> 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?
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> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.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.
> >
> > John Moore
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> > Barking Trout Productions
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> > Studio City, CA
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> > bigfish@...
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