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Re: OS X Mavericks App Store link

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Post by nwh »

dimillian wrote: post #8
nwh wrote: post #4

As always, you can make yourself a dandy boot disk or USB drive by opening the installer's app bundle, and writing the following file to your favourite medium using the "restore" tab in Disk Utility. /Install OS X Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg

When you install/update the system it creates/update your restore partition. Does Apple still only put necessary file and then do an over the air installation or they put the whole system ready to install ?

I'm not sure yet. For 10.9 the installer put all the necessary files in, and didn't download anything over the air for me.

Re: OS X Mavericks App Store link

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Post by Groxx »

fwiw you can also search for it in the app store and it appears. Or go to the "updates" tab, it's visible in there for me: https://www.dropbox.com/s/f921jp7mjcimfac/Screenshot%202013-... (possibly because I already clicked "free upgrade" in the search result? not sure.)

This doesn't appear(?) to be an unintentional early leak or anything. I'm installing it on a secondary partition, happy to report if it explodes :)

edit: so far so good. I like what I'm seeing for the most part, took very close to 30 minutes from "click install" to "booted into 10.9" on my non-stock SSD. I'm not claiming any responsibility for other people's problems, but it seems to work from here, I'd say go for it if you're feeling adventurous.

edit: have to re-install Java, XCode wants to reinstall a few things, re-enable accessibility (shortcat/dterm), all in all similar to a new install. so far all apps work fine.

Re: OS X Mavericks App Store link

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Post by sanbor »

jmgrosen wrote: post #9

I'm getting the error "Before installing OS X Mavericks, this system requires MacBook Air Flash Storage Firmware Update 1.1. Click on the Updates button in the Mac App Store to install the update." even though I've applied the firmware update and there aren't any updates (besides Mavericks) in the Mac App Store. Any help?

Maybe it's caused due FileVault disk encryption. Try disabling the encryption before applying the update.
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