Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.portables Subject: Re: Any catches on restoring from an old Mac OS X v10.8.5 Time Machine HDD backup to new SSD on a 13.3" MacBook Pro (9,2; MD102ll/A)? Date: 29 Sep 2015 22:48:23 GMT Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: <0Zednby4RbovlpfLnZ2dnUU7-cmdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <290920150001155253%nospam@nospam.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net Yoa9Oxt6udF/fc3DjmWsIwS2QKqKmwdWOniM+skscled17StRK Cancel-Lock: sha1:O309nFECNS/s0WOhB/SdHgufosY= sha1:Uzfk9kigjMl4k0aiDsK9Uet09vg= User-Agent: NewsTap/5.0 (iPhone/iPod Touch) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:32218 comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage:924 comp.sys.mac.system:81095 comp.sys.mac.portables:868 Ant wrote: > In comp.sys.mac.system Jolly Roger wrote: >> Ant wrote: >>>> If you don't have a recovery partition (which is the case with a new drive) >>>> and you have an internet connection available you can still use OS X >>>> Internet Recovery by holding down the Command-R while starting the >>>> computer. >>> >>> I just checked this out. It took a few minutes to do it online. > >> To do what? > > To see if it works and how long it took. It took a few minutes. At least > I have an idea how it works. Ah, you mean it took a few minutes to boot and get to the initial installer screen? That would make sense. The actual installation would also be much slower, as you can imagine, since everything would have to be transferred to the computer over the Internet. >>> Even >>> though I am not planning to install a brand new Mac OS X from scratch, I >>> noticed it offered Lion, but MPB had Mt. Lion (upgrade) for 3 years.. > >> I'm not sure what you are talking about. As far as I know, Internet >> Recovery will always offer the latest version of OS X for installation. You >> probably booted on a *local* recovery partition instead. > > Nope, it was definitely online since I had to enter the wifi password > and had to wait a long time. I know this MPB came with 10.7.x (Lion) > preinstalled and then I upgraded it to v10.8.2 (Mountain Lion). Interesting. I was under the impression, based on what I read about it, that it would always offer the latest OS version. Maybe I'm wrong about that. At any rate, you can always upgrade afterwards to the latest. No biggie. >> As described in the MacWorld article I told you about, if a local recovery >> partition exists (on any mounted volume available), the computer will boot >> from that rather than doing Internet recovery. > > Hmm. Why did it ask me for a password for wifi? It must have been doing the Internet recovery then. -- Sent from my iPhone