Hi, Thanks for this. Will it let me eerase the disk first during the re-install? Also, do you know f it is toosmart for its own good and remembers old user settnngs or can I set everything from scratch? I want to set os language and other such things.
Thanks, Ioana (Sent from my phone) Please check out my new CD at www.ioanagandrabur.com or on itunes. On Sep 17, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Paul Erkens <paul.erk...@gmail.com> 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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