After I fill in my password, the globe jsut turns, the little wifi signal to the left of the box lights up, but nothing happens after that. I choose my network, fill in the password, DCHP is enabled and I set it to WPA. Now, Internet recovery starts up, but just until it ask me to choose a network. So I've done some research, and I've read about Internet recovery (since we didnt think we'd need a restore disk at that time *douple derp*). And i immediately realized what I've done.
formatted, then windows shut down with a blue screen. (or what I thought it would be), so obviously I clicked yes. Running the program to make it bootable and copy the windows ISO, it said it needed to format the USB. I booted up in windows, and wanted to make a bootable USB. We installed bootcamp so that she could run windows from time to time for games etc. My wife bought one last yet June to have a fiddle with cause she's into photography and stuff, but dont know much about them either.
Once macOS is installed on the Mac with MDS, the recovery partition will be changed to match the version of macOS that was installed.First off the bat, I am complete new to Macs, and still dont know anything about them. Note that the MDS resources and macOS can be installed on the same external volume. There will be a notification saying 'Starting Internet Recovery. During the process of restarting, you can press and hold 'Command', 'Option' and 'R' keys at the same time until the animated globe appears. Then boot from that external volume and run the workflow. Choose 'Restart' or 'Power' from the 'Apple' menu on your Mac computer. MDS makes it easy to create a bootable external volume by clicking the button in the upper right corner (“Create Bootable Volume”) and following the instructions.
This allows you to download a copy of the macOS from Apples servers and begin the installation process. If the version of macOS is earlier than 10.10 (Macs released before 2014), you must boot from an external volume to run the workflow. After successfully connecting to the internet the recovery partition image is downloaded from Apples servers and the Mac then boots into it, presenting you with the same utilities and functions as a built-in recovery partition.
If the version of the macOS is 10.10 or later, run the MDS workflow from Internet Recovery and it should install the correct macOS version specified in the workflow.
The Apple support article How to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery explains in detail how the key combinations work. This will boot the Mac into the macOS recovery that is closest to the one that came with your Mac. To boot to an earlier version of macOS, hold the command-option-shift-R keys when booting up.
If the Mac was purchased earlier than 2014, it may have a recovery partition than is earlier than 10.10 and requires booting to an external volume. However, MDS uses Imagr for running workflows, and it requires 10.10 or later to work.
The macOS installer will run in earlier versions of the recovery partition as well as the same version as the installer, just not to a version the recovery partition that is newer than the installer. If the version of macOS that you are attempting to install is older than the version of the recovery, you will need to boot to an earlier version of macOS via internet recovery.
The output will be something like this: ProductName: Mac OS X To check the version of the recovery partition, open Terminal in the recovery partition and enter this command: sw_vers 4 comments Step 2 Once the computer is completely shut down, press the power button, then immediately press and hold the key combination cmd + option + R. If youre installing MacOS to a new drive with Internet Recovery, you can skip this step. Verify the Version of the Recovery Partition Step 1 How to Start Up a Mac in Internet Recovery Mode Shut down the computer. This article outlines the steps to determine the version of macOS of the recovery partition and how to resolve the issue. To resolve this issue, you need to boot to an earlier version of macOS either via Internet Recovery or by booting from an external volume. This error can occur if a newer version of macOS had been installed previously on that Mac (for example, if macOS 10.14 “Mojave” was previously installed on the Mac, and macOS 10.13 “High Sierra” is failing to install). If an MDS workflow is run from the macOS recovery partition and the version of the recovery partition is newer than the version of the macOS that is attempted to be installed, the installation may fail with a “permission error” or related error.