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Re: Installing older OS X
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Re: Installing older OS X


  • Subject: Re: Installing older OS X
  • From: Graham Cox <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 12:30:38 +1100

> On 18 Nov 2015, at 12:21 PM, Quincey Morris <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> No. It’s no listed as a disk I can start up from.
>
>


OK, that’s kind of weird, because I just made a boot disk on a USB stick by simply copying the installer onto it, and it shows as a bootable drive. Admittedly that’s with a newer installer than 10.8.5, but AFAIK this should work as long as you have the full installer, not the combo update. There has to be a way to get a blank machine with no OS installed at all up and running.

The Startup Disk preference pane did seem to take a few seconds to recognise the drive as bootable.

N.B. The USB boot drive even works on a Windows PC to make a “hackintosh”, so should work on a real Mac.

—Graham



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