I want to create a USB drive for Mountain Lion and have no discs
I have a nice shiny new 27: iMac and was hoping to create a USB boot drive in case I need it. The iMac does not come with a disk drive and Mountain Lion is purchased via the App Store, so there are no disks with which to build the boot drive. I tried downloading Mountain Lion again from the App Store, but it tells me Mountain Lion is not compatible with this computer. (yes, the computer that is running Mountain Lion right now)
iTunes Support is not very helpful. They keep telling me that I can't make a boot drive and are unable to help me download if from the App Store.
Surely Apple has created a way to build a boot drive in the case of emergency. There will be no way to defrag my hard drive if I am unable to boot from the USB drive.
You have one on your iMac, the recovery partition. Your iMac is not compatible with the App Store version so don't try.
Install OSX on to a thumb drive if you want, it's a waste of time compared to using Recovery.
Click this link for a Google search for 3rd party suggestions.
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I have a 15" MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (Early 2008) running OSX Lion 10.7.5.
I want to erase the Hard Drive, install Mountain Lion, and manually restore select applications and files.
Is there a known procedure to do this? Any tips or feedback?1. Make a backup, open App Store and purchase Mountain Lion. When its download finishes, close the installer and open Lion Diskmaker to create a bootable USB drive with Mountain Lion.
2. Press Option key while your Mac is starting, select the external drive and open Disk Utility.
3. Select Macintosh HD in the sidebar and erase the drive.
4. Close the window and install Mountain Lion -
I just recently purchased a mini iPad for my child. It was set up in the Apple store with my Apple id. I now want to create an Apple id for my child and switch it over, how can I go about that. I already downloaded some of the games from my account.
With a new account, you'll need to rebuy the games.
Each user should have their own icloud account, otherwise they end up getting the same emails, contacts, calendars, notes, reminders, etc. - usually not what you want. But if all have been sharing the same itunes ID, keep it that way, you can have different IDs for itunes and icloud.
If you already have another icloud account, and want to set it up on a device, then go to Settings>icloud, scroll to bottom of screen and tap Delete Account. This only disconnects the device from that account, no data is lost on icloud. Then enter the account ID that you want to use.
To create a new icloud account, go to
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Hi, how do I create a standalone installer for Mountain Lion, ie, download once and then no more broadband required, thanks?
Context is that my other computers are not mobile and I do not have broadband worth troubling for a 4GB download - so will go to Apple Store with MacBook Pro for first download.The easiest way is to download the installer but do not open it.
Next, make a copy of it and store it where it won't get lost.
Then take one of the copies and place into the applications directory and open it to begin the installer.
This has saved me the trouble of ever having to download the installer twice, plus you can mess around with the installer and try different options without having to worry about not having a clean install file if needed.
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I loaded Mountain Lion and now my Canon Canoscan LIDE100 Scanner won't work. I reloaded the application, checked the Cannon website for the correct driver & loaded the Canon driver for Mountain Lion. Aplication starts to load then hangs up on 80% complete. Any suggestions?
Might have a hardware issue that was caused by the minor liquid spill.
Take it to Apple to have them look at it. I think they do a free diagnostics. That way you can find out what's wrong with your MB.
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updated my mac to mountain lion 10.7.8.3 and now my app store, mail or facetime won't open. Also, I am not longer able to play videos through firefox. I tried downloading the combo for mountain lion and it refuses to install saying that I need to see developer. Whenever I try to open my appstore, mail or facetime it says that the programmes need to be installed and might not be compatible with this version of mac operating system. Can anyone help me?
It's not a bad install of Mountain Lion. I've had the same thing happen to me, but it affected not only Mail, but a variety of other programs including iPhoto and MS Office, where I had to delete preferences, caches, and reinstall the OS as well as the program itself. I'm still having issues with Mail, so I've gone to another program.
Everything was fine upon the initial install. I restarted my iMac about two weeks after the install, and that's when the issues began to happen. I've reinstalled Mountain Lion twice, but the same issues arise.
As I mentioned above, you'll need to figure out which preferences are causing the issue, then reinstall the program, as a fresh reinstallation will do you no good unless you wipe the drive completely.
Here's a thread that helped me with iPhoto:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4794375?start=0&tstart=0 -
i have paid for mountain lion and it says it is dowloading ....but nothing seems to be happening? it is a macbook 6,1 (4 years old?) and is currently running OS X 10.6.8
It's a 4+ GB file. It takes some time if you have a slow Internet connection. You may have lost connection with the server. Try pausing the download for a few second then restarting.
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I attempted to download Java for Mountain Lion and it had no positive effect. ~Marlin
I attempted to download the Java enabler for Mountain Lion (version 10.8.2) and it had absolutely no effect. How should I proceed?
Thank you,
~MarlinOpen Java Preferences.app in the Utilities folder. It will tell you what version you have, allow you to download it if not present, and allow you to enable it.
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I have an iPhone, and IPad. I just got a iPod. I want to create a new apple ID for the iPod so I can access face time and messages separately. However can I use the same credit card account?
Just do it. You can use the same credit card for multiple accounts.
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Need advice on new hard drive for Time Machine, and have Firewire questions
I have an Intel iMac 2.66GHz with 500GB internal drive. I am going to buy an OWC 1TB drive to use for Time Machine.
I also have an older 160GB external drive with Firewire 400. I'd like to continue using it for extra storage, and would like both the iMac's internal drive and the 160GB external drive to be backed up to the new drive.
OWC's 1TB drive is available with Firewire 400 & USB 2. For an additional $30, it will also have Firewire 800. If I get the Firewire 800 drive and daisy-chain the iMac > new 1TB drive > old 160GB drive, will the iMac to 1TB drive run at 800, or will the 160GB drive's limitation of Firewire 400 pull the speed of the whole connection down to 400? (If the latter is true, then it would be a waste of money to get Firewire 800.)
Also, will it make much difference whether I use Firewire 800 or 400 for a drive dedicated to Time Machine?
Finally, the 1TB drive with a 32MB cache costs $20 more than one with a 16MB cache. Is a 32MB cache worth the extra expense for using with Time Machine?
Thanks!
Message was edited by: Patrick HoulihanPatrick Houlihan wrote:
If I get the Firewire 800 drive and daisy-chain the iMac > new 1TB drive > old 160GB drive, will the iMac to 1TB drive run at 800, or will the 160GB drive's limitation of Firewire 400 pull the speed of the whole connection down to 400? (If the latter is true, then it would be a waste of money to get Firewire 800.)
I believe it will operate the entire bus at the slowest speed, but can't say for sure.
Finally, the 1TB drive with a 32MB cache costs $20 more than one with a 16MB cache. Is a 32MB cache worth the extra expense for using with Time Machine?
I went with the cheaper, smaller cache OWC drives for my backups on the theory that if caches speed repeated access of the same data, and a backup is always a single-pass stream of non-repeating data, then with a backup the data that goes in the cache doesn't need to be fetched again and therefore the cache isn't much help for backups. I'd love to hear if that's true.
I didn't answer the one about FireWire 800 for Time Machine because my Time Machine backups are over the network to Time Capsule. However, having a faster Time Machine drive interface should be faster. FireWire 800 certainly speeds things up for non-Time Machine backup software like SuperDuper which I also use. -
Making a bootable USB drive of Mountain Lion question
What if I have Mountain Lion already pre-installed on my retina MBP? I can't download it from the app store because it will charge me $20 for an OS I already have. Are there any guides on the net where I can DL Mountain Lion without the $20 charge?
Will Internet Recovery work like it does for Lion users?Make sure your Apple ID is setup in the User & Groups System Preference.
When you sign into the App Store with your Apple ID, press the option key before clicking Purchases. Does Mountain Lion show up ready to Install?
If it does, download it again, but do not click Continue when it auto-runs and wants to update your rMBP. Now get Lion Diskmaker and a spare 8GB USB stick. Let Lion Diskmaker will ask you if Lion or Mountain Lion, then automagically build the bootable USB stick. Realize that the bootable USB stick will only provide full, clean installs. -
How to create bootable USB drive for a PC on a Mac?
So in short I have a full PC build and a copy of Windows 7, but no optical drive to run the Windows 7 disk on, so I'm going to need to boot from a USB and the only means I have of creating a bootable USB is my Macbook running Yosemite.
So my question is how do I go about doing this? Please tell me it's as easy as selecting 'Create a Windows 7 or later version install disk' in BootcampOn a Mac create an ISO from the DVD and put it in a folder. Run BCA (Bootcamp Assistant) and use it to create a USB2 which will contain both the ISO and BC drivers. Uncheck the last "Install/Remove..." option, if you do not intend to install Windows on Mac.
Macs have no read-write NTFS drivers (Apple provides a read-only drivers), so the partition on Macs created by BCA is FAT, which is converted by the Windows installer to NTFS.
Please also see https://help.apple.com/bootcamp/mac/5.0/help/#/bcmp173b3bf2 and http://imgur.com/a/DuGxr#0.
The USB2 has an AutoUnattend.xml which will silently install BC drivers, but these drivers are intended for Macs to support Mac-specific hardware. -
Using Rufus to create bootable USB Drives for Cisco ISE 3495 upgrade
I will give a try in the lab but I just wanted to know if somebody else tried this option before.
Firstable I have to said that I received a brand new 3495 Cisco ISE with version 1.3.0.876 already installed on it BUT my deployment is running 1.2.1.198 patch 3 so I had to downgrade that box.
Hi Saurav, using Rufus did NOT work. I got an installation error so I found that using DAEMON TOOL Lite (trial version), I created a virtual DVD drive on my Win 7 Laptop which pointed to the ISO for version 1.2.1.198. Then I could make the downgrade with no issues. This is a Cisco Appliance not VM.
I think the procedure indicated by cisco in the following link is INCOMPLETE:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/ise/1-2/installation_guide/ise_ig.pdf
I will post some additional screenshots required on that link when you are using CIMC and upgrading/downgrading the ISE using External/Virtual DVD.
Important to say that I found this mechanism using Virtual DVD the easiest one instead of the bootable flash drive. -
This is not a PC/PWX problem, but a mainframe security problem. TIDSS01.POS.IBD.DR0100.DAT is not a GDG file name.It might be the base for a GDG. A GDG file name would look something like eitherTIDSS01.POS.IBD.DR0100.DAT(+1)orTIDSS01.POS.IBD.DR0100.DAT.G001V00 So I suspect that you have the wrong file name.Please talk with your mainframe team.
HI Dan, I am very new to using power exchnage please help me through this issue, Below is the details : My data map name :postest.test1_POS
Copy book name which is used to create the power exchange Datamap : TIDSS01.ACTRLP.TEST(POSCPY)
Main frame GDG name : TIDSS01.POS.IBD.DR0100.DAT Below are the Session properties i have set in informatica workflow:Schema Name Override : postest
Map Name Override : test1_POS
PWX Partition Strategy : Overrides driven
Space : CYLINDER
File Name Override :TIDSS01.POS.IBD.DR0100.DAT(+1)
I am getting below error: PWXPC_12190
Message: [ERROR] Transformation [test1_POS]: A permanent error has been encountered in PowerExchange: [
[Informatica][SCLI PWX Driver] PWX-00267 DBAPI Error. DB_INSERT failed for file postest.test1_POS.
[Informatica][SCLI PWX Driver] PWX-01279 DBNTC INSERT failed for file postest.test1_POS. Rcs 1274/2019/268.
[Informatica][SCLI PWX Driver] PWX-01274 DBNTC INSERT Failed for file postest.test1_POS, rcs 260/2019/268.
[Informatica][SCLI PWX Driver] PWX-02019 SQL insert failure. SQLCODE = 268.
[Informatica][SCLI PWX Driver] PWX-00268 DBAPI Error. DB_OPEN failed for file TIDSS01.POS.IBD.DR0100.DAT.
[Informatica][SCLI PWX Driver] PWX-00220 DYNALLOC failed for file TIDSS01.POS.IBD.DR0100.DAT RCs = 9700/0.
[Informatica][SCLI PWX Driver] PWX-00221 DATA SET: TIDSS01.POS.IBD.DR0100.DAT WITH RETURN CODE 08 REASON CODE 00
[Informatica][SCLI PWX Driver] PWX-00221 RACF FUNCTION: RACDEF FOR
[Informatica][SCLI PWX Driver] PWX-00221 IGD308I DATA SET ALLOCATION REQUEST FAILED -
[Informatica][SCLI PWX Driver] PWX-00221 IKJ56893I DATA SET TIDSS01.POS.IBD.DR0100.DAT NOT ALLOCATED+
[Informatica][SCLI PWX Driver] PWX-07404 Permanent error set by Open call on file "TIDSS01.POS.IBD.DR0100.DAT" because dynamic allocation failed. rc=4
[Informatica][SCLI PWX Driver] PWX-07515 Insert call for table postest.test1_POS met a permanent error. Return codes 267 2019 268.
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Dual boot drive - Mountain Lion and Snow Leopard - Correct order to load software /apps?
Hi
I want to create a dual boot drive for Mountain Lion and Snow Leopard as some of my hardware (is not supported in Mountain Lion).
I am happy how to do this, I just want to know if there is a correct way to install software and apps.
My plan was to do a clean install of both using two partitions, the larger going to ML and smaller one for SL. I was going to install SL from the DVD and then after updating from 10.6. to 10.6.8 and download ML from the app store and install on the larger partition.
Do I install all the software I use like Final Cut, Aperture, iLife (for Garageband) etc on the ML or SL partition or on both. Also, is there a better way / practise of the order software updates / apps and boxed software should be installed when doing a clean machine install.
Thanks in advance.
MattThanks mende1
So, if I have software I need to use on both ML and SL - for example Final Cut as I have a Canopus AVDC box which is not supported in ML but only SL, do I need to install the same software in both OS?
I usually open apps using spotlight and didn't know if it would software / apps would open if already installed on the other partition?
Thanks again
Matt
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