Hello, This brings up another question. When reinstalling Lion, how does a VoiceOver user access the internet from the recovery drive? In other words: 1. The computer has been rebooted using Command R at the chime. 2. VO using Fred has been started. 3. Now it's time to start the reinstall process for a clean install. 4. The OS wants to verify the machines serial number with Apple. Now the question comes in to play. How does a blind VO user access a wired internet service? When I emailed Apple's Accessibility group, they just said that they were working on this problem. Any suggestions? TIA.
Dan On Sep 17, 2011, at 7:08 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > Hi Ioana, and Teresa, > Because of a message by Ricardo Walker,I now know I forgot to mention a > simpler option. If lion is already installed Iona, you could also reinstall a > clean lion from the recovery partition. When lion installs, not only will it > simply install into macintosh hd, but a separate, hidden partition will also > be created by the lion installer. If you already have lion, no matter if it > was installed by the previous mac owner, the recovery partition will be > there. Shut down the mac, start it, and during the chime sound, hit, and keep > holding, command r. These 2 keys will boot the mac from its lion recovery > partition. After some ten seconds you can be sure the recovery partition is > booting and you can let go of command r. After 2 minutes or so it will be > booted. Probably less, but after you give it some time, hit command f5 to > turn voiceover on. Fred will help you from there. > Hth, > Paul. > On Sep 17, 2011, at 6:14 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > >> Hi, Ioana, >> >> Once the OS is installed, the installer package deletes itself. You could >> try looking in the applications folder for it on the off-chance it was >> replaced ther by the previous owner, but it's unlikely to be there. Sorry. >> >> Teresa >> On Sep 16, 2011, at 3:28 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: >> >>> Hi Paul and list,Given that the previous owner downloaded the file, would >>> he not have an instaler somewhere on the mac? >>> Regardless, I did sign out of his account in the app store and signed in >>> with mine (I already had one for my iPhone) and searched for lion. >>> unfortunately I could not buy it since it showed a dimmed installed button. >>> I have the sno leopard dvd that came with the mac and I suppose I could >>> erase the drive and install from that and upgrade. >>> Any better way you can think of? >>> >>> assuming I have to do what I outlined above, how do I start? Have to erase >>> first and start the install from dvd? >>> >>> Thanks so much! >>> >>> A very excited newbie. >>> >>> >>> (Sent from my phone) >>> >>> Please check out my new CD at www.ioanagandrabur.com or on itunes. >>> >>> On Sep 16, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Paul Erkens <paul.erk...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Iona, >>>> I don't think you need the apple id of the previous owner. However, you do >>>> need to get hold of the lion installer app. Which is over 3 gigabytes. >>>> Normally, you download this from the app store. Do you have an apple ID of >>>> your own yet? If you do, when asked for your apple ID, you can fill in >>>> your own, so that lion can be payed for, using your own apple ID. If you >>>> don't have one yet, you can create one in each dialog where you are asked >>>> for it. You can then put money on to that apple account using either >>>> itunes gift cards, attaching your credit card to it, or you can put money >>>> on the apple ID by using services like click and buy. >>>> >>>> Once you have the lion app from the app store, there is a way to burn that >>>> onto a dvd. Alternatively, you can put the installer on a usb stick. >>>> Either way, you then boot from cd or usb stick, install lion, all with >>>> speech support along your way, then perform software updates, and then >>>> start to use it by installing apps and putting your own data on it. >>>> But now that you still have a mac with someone else's installation, the >>>> first thing to do is get hold of the lion installer app. For that, you >>>> need an apple account or apple ID. Then you must make sure that you can do >>>> purchases with it, and then you can download the lion installer from app >>>> store. Let's start with that. If you have questions along the way, just >>>> ask. When you have the installer, say so and we can try to help further. >>>> Hth, >>>> Paul. >>>> On Sep 16, 2011, at 6:59 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: >>>> >>>>> Greetings, >>>>> >>>>> As I mentioned in previous posts, I have a 2nd hand mac mini with lion >>>>> installed that I would like to reset from beginning to change operating >>>>> system language and other settings. >>>>> >>>>> During install, do I require the Apple ID and password of previous owner >>>>> and purchaser of lion? >>>>> Could you recommend a guide of re--installing lion? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> >>>>> Ioana >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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