Re: reinstalling lion

2011-09-17 Thread Paul Erkens
Iona, If you use disk utility, which is a choice when you boot up with command r and Fred, then yes. You can erase your drive. Afterwards, because it is erased, you will start from scratch. By the way, you can also change your language for the time being, that you have not reinstalled Lion yet.

Re: reinstalling lion

2011-09-17 Thread Dan
Hello, Sorry, I don't know what to tell you. I don't know about an iPhone internet connection. I'm referring to my local ether net connection, from the Recovery Partition. Dan On Sep 17, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: > Hi again, > > So do you mean that to reinstall you need to be co

Re: reinstalling lion

2011-09-17 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
Hi again, So do you mean that to reinstall you need to be connected via cable? Would the iphone usb connection do? How much does it have do download? I am asking because I only have 6 gb per month and would love to avoid downloading the whole os. Thanks, Ioana (Sent from my phone) Please ch

Re: reinstalling lion

2011-09-17 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
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) Pleas

Re: reinstalling lion

2011-09-17 Thread Dan
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

Re: reinstalling lion

2011-09-17 Thread Paul Erkens
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 separat

Re: reinstalling lion

2011-09-16 Thread Teresa Cochran
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

Re: reinstalling lion

2011-09-16 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
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 sin

Re: reinstalling lion

2011-09-16 Thread Paul Erkens
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 fil