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Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive

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From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive
Date 6 Mar 2014 18:10:13 GMT
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On 2014-03-06, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article <bnpmtmFtnffU1@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger
><jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> >> > > If you don't have a stick, then I agree you should purchase
>> >> > > the largest size you can afford. I see Kingston DataTravelers
>> >> > > have come way down in price since I purchased mine. Amazon has
>> >> > > the SE9 model at these price/size combinations at the moment:
>> >> > > 
>> >> > > 8GB for $5.95: 16GB for $9.95:
>> >> > 
>> >> > *that* is my point.  the price is too close to bother with 8 gig
>> >> > anymore.
>> >> 
>> >> So if the poster had asked "what is the most cost effective size
>> >> of usb stick right now?" you could have defended the 16GB answer.
>> >
>> > does someone need to explicitly spell things out for you? he
>> > obviously wanted to buy a stick, otherwise why ask.
>> 
>> Yes, it clearly couldn't be that the OP asked before trying. Why on
>> Earth would anyone do that? LOL...
>
> he almost certainly wanted to buy something and be sure what he bought
> was not too small nor bigger than what he needed.

You don't know anything of the sort. He may have had an 8GB stick
sitting right beside him for all you know. But you need to argue this
point because you cannot admit you are wrong, ever.

>> >> If the poster asked "how big a USB stick do you need to use as a
>> >> Mavericks installer," the answer is clearly 8GB.
>> >> 
>> >> Your inability to acknowledge that is a pathology.      
>> >
>> > the only inability here is your inability to comprehend what i
>> > originally wrote, where i specifically said it might fit on an 8
>> > but that there's no point in bothering with 8 anymore because the
>> > price difference is negligible. a 16 can be used for many more
>> > things after the install is done than an 8 would. there's no point
>> > in buying an 8.
>> 
>> Because that's not actually what you said, weasel.
>> 
>> Shall we recap?:
>>
>> 1. The OP asked specifically, "what size drive is needed?".
>> 
>> 2. Mr. Weasel answered, "16 gig, but it might be possible to stuff it
>> into 8 gig" - as if somehow 8GB would require "stuffing" of some
>> sort,
>
> i consider 2 gig free to be 'stuffed'.

The installer works just fine on an 8GB stick. 

> you obviously do not.

Correction: I *know* not. The fact is the installer works just fine on
an 8GB stick.

> fill your drive to 2 gig free and see how well that works out for you.

Nice try weasel. We're talking about an installer here, not a hard
drive. Again, the fact is the installer works just fine on an 8GB stick.

> hfs also has some well known bugs with very little free space,
> although that's probably not an issue with an installer, however, it
> is why i consider 2 gig free to be 'stuffed'. 

Doesn't apply here, weasel. The installer works just fine on an 8GB
stick.

>> possibly enticing the OP to infer that it might take additional work
>> on the OP's part to use an 8GB stick. 
>
> nonsense. you made that up.

OP: "what size drive is needed?".
Weasel: "16 gig, but it might be possible to stuff it into 8 gig"

>> And while immediately after that
>> weasel mentioned, "why bother since they're so cheap", that was *after*
>> he indicated 16GB was needed and 8GB would require the nebulous
>> additional work of "stuffing". 
>
> nope. it was in the original statement, which you even quoted.

OP: "what size drive is needed?".
Weasel: "16 gig, but it might be possible to stuff it into 8 gig"

> not only are you lying but you don't even know what you're yapping
> about.
>
> the real hoot is i actually agreed with something you said, yet you
> argue. you're fucked up.
>
> rest of your lies snipped.

Pop goes the weasel!

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Installing Mavericks from thumb drive "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2014-03-04 21:49 +0000
  Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-04 17:01 -0500
    Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2014-03-04 22:52 +0000
      Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-04 18:07 -0500
        Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2014-03-04 15:14 -0800
          Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-04 18:20 -0500
            Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2014-03-04 17:34 -0800
              Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-04 22:33 -0500
                Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2014-03-05 05:19 +0000
                Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-05 00:32 -0500
                Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive Barry OGrady <atheist@hotmail.com.au> - 2014-03-09 20:23 +1100
                Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-09 17:49 +0000
                Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-03-11 11:03 +1100
                Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-05 05:57 +0000
                Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-05 15:40 +0000
              Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-05 15:38 +0000
                Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-05 10:51 -0500
                Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2014-03-05 11:43 -0800
                Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-05 16:54 -0500
                Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-05 22:31 +0000
                Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-05 22:38 +0000
                Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-03-06 21:46 +1100
                Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-06 18:14 +0000
                Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-06 08:25 -0500
                Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-06 08:28 -0500
                Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-06 18:10 +0000
                Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2014-03-06 22:54 +0000
                Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2014-03-06 18:12 -0500
                Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2014-03-06 16:07 -0800
                Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-07 02:34 +0000
                Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2014-03-07 07:48 -0500
                Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-03-07 17:45 -0500
                Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2014-03-07 18:07 -0500
                Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive cb <cb@aol.com> - 2014-03-20 18:21 +0100
          Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-05 15:25 +0000
        Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-03-04 19:36 -0500
      Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-05 15:25 +0000
    Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2014-03-06 00:06 +0000
  Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-04 22:18 +0000
    Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2014-03-06 00:36 +0000
    Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive Kaltsas, Alexander G <macdude22@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-07 09:15 -0600
      Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2014-03-07 07:31 -0800
        Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-07 15:39 +0000
  Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-03-04 17:21 -0500
  Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-04 23:27 +0000
  Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive "Mr. Strat" <mrstrat@nospam.gmail.com> - 2014-03-05 06:10 -0800
    Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2014-03-05 09:26 -0500
    Re: Installing Mavericks from thumb drive Kaltsas, Alexander G <macdude22@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-07 09:16 -0600
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