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(This does not in any way excuse anything he encountered. That is and will always remain inexcusable.) Apple is aware of those problems and hard at work fixing

by arrrg 14y ago

(This does not in any way excuse anything he encountered. That is and will always remain inexcusable.) Apple is aware of those problems and hard at work fixing them. All current Macs, for example, now come with Internet Recovery, meaning it is possible to boot them into the recovery manager (and from there it’s possible to run Disk Utility, the Terminal or the installer), even with a completely empty HDD. All the iLife apps you get with your Mac (and all apps you buy in the App Store) are automatically tied to your Apple ID, meaning you can download them as often as you want. You cannot even buy any software on CDs from Apple anymore (the lone exception to that is Logic Studio). I assume (hope!) that all Time Machine bugs have been fixed, but do not know. It seems weird that even the latest version of OS X Lion would come with those bugs, so I’m not sure what’s going on there. At any rate, the experience he had is unacceptable.

tolmasky 14y ago
I have a "non current" macbook air that I've been wanting to do a security clean install on forever but it doesn't qualify for internet recovery for some reason. Its a 2010 Macbook Air. How do I do a secure wipe of the drive and reinstall ML on this thing?
- arrrg 14y ago
  It’s pretty easy: http://eggfreckles.net/notes/installing-mountain-lion-clean/ http://eggfreckles.net/notes/installing-mountain-lion-clean/ I have used this procedure many times, it works like a charm. However, I do want Apple to provide a more obvious way of doing just that. It would be great if their tool for creating a bootable recovery manager worked just with the OS X install app as a source. But to be honest, I do not think that doing a clean install is a good idea for the most people and for defect HDDs, new Macs at least come with internet recovery (but the older ones are still a problem).
drivebyacct2 14y ago
The reality is that Disk Utility lies. There is a recovery partition it hides from you. What you're describing is impossible without a relatively huge EFI partition, or net boot.
- ricardobeat 14y ago
  On the most recent macs, it works even on an actual empty HDD. The core utility is baked into the firmware, and then downloads the rest of itself (the hidden partition part) over the internet. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
  - drivebyacct2 14y ago
    Oh biscuits. I see. Thanks for the info/link.

by arrrg 14y ago

tolmasky 14y ago

I have a "non current" macbook air that I've been wanting to do a security clean install on forever but it doesn't qualify for internet recovery for some reason. Its a 2010 Macbook Air. How do I do a secure wipe of the drive and reinstall ML on this thing?

arrrg 14y ago
It’s pretty easy: http://eggfreckles.net/notes/installing-mountain-lion-clean/ http://eggfreckles.net/notes/installing-mountain-lion-clean/ I have used this procedure many times, it works like a charm. However, I do want Apple to provide a more obvious way of doing just that. It would be great if their tool for creating a bootable recovery manager worked just with the OS X install app as a source. But to be honest, I do not think that doing a clean install is a good idea for the most people and for defect HDDs, new Macs at least come with internet recovery (but the older ones are still a problem).

drivebyacct2 14y ago

The reality is that Disk Utility lies. There is a recovery partition it hides from you. What you're describing is impossible without a relatively huge EFI partition, or net boot.

ricardobeat 14y ago
On the most recent macs, it works even on an actual empty HDD. The core utility is baked into the firmware, and then downloads the rest of itself (the hidden partition part) over the internet. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
- drivebyacct2 14y ago
  Oh biscuits. I see. Thanks for the info/link.