What's the point of recovery partition when I have to DL the whole thing anyway?
Well I was supposed to sell my Macbook Air today.
I tried booting CMD-R into the recovery partition and instead it went to some online thing.
So then I booted Option, into the recovery partition and clicked on Reinstall Mountain Lion.
Next thing ya know its got me logging into the Apple Store and now it has a 7 hour download.
So what is the point of the recovery partition if it can't do a fresh copy of Mountain Lion? What exactly is it to help me recover from? What if I was in the hills of Indonesia and tried to do this?
Any now I can't sell this thing until tomorrow as I have a seven hour download wait ahead of me. Had I knows, I would have let that be the new owners problem. Or somehow made a backup of ML previously.
Silly Apple. Always advertising something so great that turns out to be useless.
The silly part is not alerting the user that when you download and install that the .ESD installer package will be deleted and to make a copy of it.
The system you download - guesstimates can be way off - check with speedtest.net - is associated with YOU and your Apple ID and the best thing to do is any OEM material and a blank hard drive - and printout of ML Recovery Mode tech article on doing an internet based install.
Yes you could have setup a 4GB installer flash drive or on your hard drive. Yes they could maintain that 4GB on a larger Recovery partition (it is less than 1GB).
Create an OS X Lion Install disc
OS X Lion Install to Different Drive
How to create an OS X Lion installation disc MacFixIt
Migration Assistant Update for Mac OS X Snow Leopard
http://www.apple.com/support/lion/installrecovery/
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