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Re: Crashed partition recovery problem

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On Sunday, May 10, 2015 at 3:47:53 AM UTC-4, JF Mezei wrote:
> On 15-05-10 02:56, M. John Matlaw wrote:
> 
> > It occurred to me that I might be able to install 10.10.3 by using the 
> > working Snow Leopard 10.6.8 system to access the app store but I believe 
> > that's only good for upgrading the system that accessing the app store. 
> >   Is that right?
> 
> 
> You can use 10.6.8 to begin the upgrade on the App Store. (aka: download
> it). The trick is to not begin the actual installation and before you
> quit it, you rename the downloaded .DMG file (the installation software)
> so that it doesn't get deleted when you exit the installer.
> 
> When you open the .DMG, you'll find an installer app and from it you
> *should* be able to specify which disk you want to install it on (I have
> not verified this) at which point you specify the partition you intend
> to have Yosemite on.
> 
> Alternatively, you boot from the partition to be upgraded, mount the
> disk/partition that contains the dmg, then you mount the dmg and you can
> install in-situ on the currently running partition.
> 
> 
> Note: Yosemite makes some changes to partitioning scheme, but I am not
> well versed enough to understand exactly what is changed. I assume that
> you can continue to have the SL and Yosemite partitions co-exist.

Windows actually copied this shit???

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Crashed partition recovery problem "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2015-05-10 02:56 -0400
  Re: Crashed partition recovery problem JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-05-10 03:47 -0400
    Re: Crashed partition recovery problem David Fritzinger <email@domain.com> - 2015-05-10 10:49 -0400
    Re: Crashed partition recovery problem dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-05-11 10:06 +1200
    Re: Crashed partition recovery problem awoolmeyer@gmail.com - 2015-05-12 11:45 -0700
      Re: Crashed partition recovery problem Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-05-12 12:05 -0700
  Re: Crashed partition recovery problem Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2015-05-10 12:11 -0700
    Re: Crashed partition recovery problem "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2015-05-10 19:23 -0400
    Re: Crashed partition recovery problem "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2015-05-13 01:01 -0400
  Re: Crashed partition recovery problem "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2015-05-10 19:13 -0400

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