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Re: OS X Mavericks App Store link

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Post by benguild » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 11:15 PM UTC

siculars wrote: post #55

So I'm doing the upgrade on an mbp with filevault2. The installer "reboots" the machine and goes into the rest of the installation. But I'm never prompted for a disk password. So... how'd that happen?

Yeah, I was wondering that as well.

Re: OS X Mavericks App Store link

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Post by benguild » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 11:16 PM UTC

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

Check the Mac Rumors forums before doing this. I heard that this approach doesn't work anymore because Apple changed some dependencies.

Re: OS X Mavericks App Store link

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Post by amree » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 11:22 PM UTC

Is there any direct link to download this update? 5.29GB is pretty big. Would love to download it through my download manager.

Re: OS X Mavericks App Store link

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Post by stefek99 » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 11:24 PM UTC

amree wrote: post #63

Is there any direct link to download this update? 5.29GB is pretty big. Would love to download it through my download manager.

Exactly.

Me asking similar question - https://twitter.com/stefek99/status/392755432105603072 - I want to find .iso, make bootable USB and wipe everything, start fresh.

Re: OS X Mavericks App Store link

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Post by CrazedGeek » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 11:26 PM UTC

amree wrote: post #63

Is there any direct link to download this update? 5.29GB is pretty big. Would love to download it through my download manager.

Nowhere close to official, but you can torrent it: http://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/9085330/OS_X_Mavericks_10.9_O...

Re: OS X Mavericks App Store link

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Post by amree » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 11:38 PM UTC

lol, torrenting free app from piratebay. Downloading it now

Re: OS X Mavericks App Store link

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Post by vonseel » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 11:43 PM UTC

curiouscat321 wrote: post #33

Has anybody had any issues with homebrew, virtualenv, or prezto (zsh) after a Mavericks install?

Homebrew is giving me warnings about XCode 5.0 being out of date, but the developer site isn't specifying 5.0.1 as Homebrew is asking for and I don't have an available update in the App Store.

I don't usually use sudo to install virtualenv, you can use the method here and it will work: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4324558/

I had some trouble reloading an existing vagrant box and virtualbox, seems to have resolved itself after using each providers uninstall tool bundled with the latest versions of Vagrant and Vbox and installing fresh versions after.

Re: OS X Mavericks App Store link

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Post by vonseel » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 11:44 PM UTC

TheMakeA wrote: post #40

I ran into an issue while installing. It said "An error occurred while installing OS X" and then froze. Afterwards, I got a bouncing question mark. Booting into internet recovery several times, and it couldn't find my HDD. I finally assumed that it had probably fried my HDD somehow, so I powered off and ordered an SSD online since I was looking to upgrade anyway. I unplugged it from the wall and turned it on and it s…

I didn't have this problem, but removing external monitors during the install screwed up the installers view, I could tell it was still running, but not refreshing. Eventually it finished and view started working again.

Re: OS X Mavericks App Store link

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Post by mayhew » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 12:03 AM UTC

shiftb wrote: post #60

mayhew wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there nothing equivalent to virtualenv for Ruby? It'd be nice to be able to use the system Ruby and just get gem to install into an isolated project specific location.

Check out rbenv https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv

I've been using rbenv. I didn't realize it could install gems without using sudo when the system Ruby is activated. Thanks!

Re: OS X Mavericks App Store link

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Post by uxp » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 12:22 AM UTC

benguild wrote: post #62

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

Check the Mac Rumors forums before doing this. I heard that this approach doesn't work anymore because Apple changed some dependencies.

I think you might be correct. Apple used to distribute the Lion Recovery app, which basically copied the InstallESD.dmg to a USB stick, but it no longer works with Mountain Lion. Running this command, however, uses a hidden executable inside the installer application to write itself to a USB stick.

  sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/USBSTICK --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app --nointeraction

NOTE: This uses sudo because it needs permission to write to the device. It also has the potential of destroying external drives, internal drives and boot drives. Please change the value for the 'volume' flag to point to the mounted path of the USB stick or SD card you wish to use as the bootable install disk. It will overwrite all the data on that disk. I am not responsible for any data loss using this command. Please double check all paths, all commands and all flags before running this.