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

Make a Bootable USB Drive of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion from the Recovery Hard
Drive
http://www.coolestguyplanettech.com/make-a-bootable-usb-drive-of-os-x-10-8-mountain-lion-using-the-recovery-partition/



On Sunday, March 3, 2013, johnrobmoore wrote:

> **
>
>
> No I tried that first thinking it was like what I had read about in 10.7.
> What you do now is hold CMD + R during reboot and follow the prompts to
> repair or reinstall the OS. I think there are three choices and I picked
> the one that seemed like a clean install although it didn't really behave
> like one. It left the original user I had created and it left firefox in
> the applications folder, which was the only app I had installed on the new
> computer. It did lose the icon for firefox on the dock. During part of the
> process I had to rejoin my home wifi but after that it remembered it for
> the several reboots. I'm not sure how you would go about wiping the
> internal drive completely and starting from scratch. There must be a way.
> I'll have to do more research on that but for now it looks like the most
> viable method would be a carbon copy clone or Time Machine backup or
> something similar. I hope there an ability to boot off whatever
> restore/network/partition thingy in case of emergency. Oh well just what I
> need is more googling for something that could be done with an emergency
> DVD or OS DVD. One step forward and two reboots back in my book.
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com');>, electropura212 wrote:
> >
> > If you hold down option during boot, do you not have a recovery
> partition?
> >
> > On Sunday, March 3, 2013, johnrobmoore wrote:
> >
> > > **
> > >
> > >
> > > 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 <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com');>
> > 'Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com');>, John Moore wrote:
> > > >
> > > > 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
> > > >
> > > > Barking Trout Productions
> > > >
> > > > Studio City, CA
> > > >
> > > > bigfish@
> > > >
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