03-01-2017, 07:53 PM
Nabbed an iMac 2014 from ebay. No optical drive.
Looks great, starts, but has no OS. HD has been erased.
Connected a clone of my operating Mac, which has, in the Applications Folder, a file "Install OS X El Capitan." Selected the Clone as Startup Disk.
Got the Mac to start from the clone, then tried to Install OS X El Capitan.
After about an hour the progress bar, under the Apple logo, has made less than 1/8-inch of progress.
For the first half-hour I thought it's slow because data is transferring via the USB cable. After an hour I wonder if anything at all is happening.
What to do? Can't configure it for the internet with no OS…
Looks great, starts, but has no OS. HD has been erased.
Connected a clone of my operating Mac, which has, in the Applications Folder, a file "Install OS X El Capitan." Selected the Clone as Startup Disk.
Got the Mac to start from the clone, then tried to Install OS X El Capitan.
After about an hour the progress bar, under the Apple logo, has made less than 1/8-inch of progress.
For the first half-hour I thought it's slow because data is transferring via the USB cable. After an hour I wonder if anything at all is happening.
What to do? Can't configure it for the internet with no OS…