MacBook Pro unable to reinstall my OSX
Hi!
Since I offered my old computer to my paranets, I wanted to erase all content from my MacBook Pro late 2008 and set up a new operating system. I have been already running on Mavericks, but I have an excellent idea to reinstall the OSX from the DVD that I got when I bought this macbook. Everything went pretty fine with the reisntalation, but the horror began when I realised that on Leopard is no App Store and there is no way to redownload Snow Leopard which I bought several years ago.
Is there a way to have snow leopard installed without buying it once more?
Not sure where MacWorlds' article just went?
The Mavericks has a "createinstallmedia" built into the installer. You can format a SD card "Untitiled" so it is bootable (GUID partition/journeled) run this command will automaticly seak out the package and install it on to the SD card. A Bootable installer on a SD or USB flash card.
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app --nointeraction
Download 10.9 to your working machine, quit the installer. Format a SD card leave the name "Untitled" as in the command above. Inter command line in terminal.
Maybe the link will resurface for all the details.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5856
an alternate how to :
http://osxdaily.com/2013/10/23/create-os-x-mavericks-install-drive/
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