Manual Install With No Internet Mac Os



This is no different with the MacOS Mojave 10.14 update (and even the 10.14.x updates), and so while the vast majority of Mac users will experience no difficulty with wireless networking and the software updates, some issues can crop up for small numbers of Macs. The good news is that it’s usually a simple resolution. VirtualBox is a powerful hypervisor software which allows emulating different OS in Mac OS X environment. With its help, running earlier and later Windows versions, as well as Internet Explorer on a Mac, is no big deal. VirtualBox has a pretty standard uninstallation procedure. A bootable installer doesn't download macOS from the Internet, but it does require the Internet to get information specific to your Mac model, such as firmware updates. If you need to connect to a Wi-Fi network, use the Wi-Fi menu in the menu bar.

It happens that real macs can re-install macOS directly from the internet, without the need for a disk or installer support, and they do that through 'Internet Recovery'. When a mac finds no OS or recovery partition, it will try to load a recovery system from Apple's servers and then boot it then install macOS through the internet to the mac.

Most of the time you'll never have to worry about having to install a new operating system on your Mac - the one that's on there should work fine through thick and thin. But every once in a while you might want or need to - here are step by step instructions for making it happen.

Use Recovery Mode

Every Mac operating system since Lion (OS X 10.7) has included Recovery Mode, a special boot partition that enables you to recover from catastrophic failures and problems. This can be used to install a fresh copy of Mavericks on your hard drive, provided you have Internet access. To use Recovery Mode, follow these instructions:

  1. Shut down your Mac.
  2. Press the Power button (the button marked with a O with a 1 through it)
  3. Immediately press the command (cloverleaf) key and R together.
  4. Make sure you're connected to the internet through Wi-Fi. If you're not, choose a network from the Wi-Fi menu that appears at the top-right corner of the screen.
  5. Select Install Mac OS X, then click Continue.
  6. Wait.

It's worth noting that this installs a fresh copy of OS X on your Mac without affecting either your files or your user settings, so you should be good to go as soon as it reboots. All applications are maintained, as well. This system simply replaces the core files that enable OS X to operate.

I've had occasion to see systems that don't work with Recovery Mode, for some reason. For those computers, it's often possible to restore access to the Recovery Mode partition by resetting the System Management Controller (SMC). To reset the SMC on most Macs:

  1. Shut down the Mac. If it's a laptop, make sure it's connected to the power cord.
  2. Hold down the Control, Option, and Left Shift keys simultaneously, then press the Power button.
  3. Release the keys.
  4. Press the Power button again. The system should turn on and you can give Recovery Mode another try.
Install

If that fails to work, you can always download a fresh copy of the Mavericks installer from the Mac App Store.

Download a fresh copy of Mavericks from the Mac App Store

  1. Open the Mac App Store application, either from your Dock or from the Applications folder.
  2. Click on the Purchases tab at the top of the window or press command and 4 on your keyboard. (I'll assume for the moment that you have already installed Mavericks once - if you haven't, you should see an installation option in your Updates folder, assuming you have Snow Leopard or later installed.)
  3. Find OS X Mavericks in the list of files, either scrolling through the list or using the Search field in the upper right hand corner of the window.
  4. Click the Download button.
  5. You may get a dialog box advising you that OS X 10.9 is already installed on this computer. It's safe to click the Continue button.
  6. Be prepared to wait a while. Even over a fast Internet connection, it'll take a little while to download, since it's more than 5 GB.
  7. Once it's downloaded, it'll launch automatically. Follow the directions to install OS X.

Hopefully this will help you get started if you need to install a fresh copy of Mavericks. Questions? Fire away in the comments.

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Install macOS/X directly from the internet

Some of us encounter that moment in our macOSx86 journey when we want to install macOS without any macOS access or just too lazy and to setup all that crap that needs space and whatnot, and thankfully there is a simple solution that is already available on real macs which is Internet Recovery. However, unlike real macs, we will need to download the recovery and make a USB installer of it and run it with our beloved Clover. Also this method has been around for a good long time, but since a lot of people didn't know it, sharing is caring.

This guide is for experienced people, novice fellows can still follow this (usually since a lot of them don’t have access to a macOS device) but will need some extra researches and finding on their own.

By following this guide, you accept that you will assume all responsibilities on your hardware/software and life and what you have if anything goes wrong. NOBODY HERE, INCLUDING ME, WILL BE TAKEN RESPONSIBLE OF SOMETHING GOING WRONG BUT YOU!

To begin with, make sure you have this:

  • You have some basic knowledge on what you're doing (what's a kext, what's clover, what's UEFI, what's NVRAM, how/where to install kexts, how to inject kexts with clover, clover's config.plist, what is a DSDT/SSDT…). I will not be giving a beginner lesson in this guide, so you better have you friend Google or father DuckDuckGo. (You can get close to Bing, but that's the girl you shouldn't be with). Also, you should know your way around issue and how you track it and fix it, add -v and debug=0x100 to keep the KP shown to know where the issue is.

  • A Hackable/hacked computer

  • If you already installed macOS and need reinstalling, your clover folder will be needed, so no need to make a new one

  • A fast internet

  • 20Mbps to get this procedure done in an hour and half, the faster the better. Having less than that means you’ll be waiting even more (to put it into perspective, a fast laptop with an nvme SSD and an i7 6th gen HQ cpu, but with 4.7Mbps internet speed, will take about 3 to 4 hours, an equally specced device with a 20Mbps internet will take about an hour)

  • An access to a LAN cable or a reliable WiFi connection

  • I recommend a good LAN cable than WiFi, since most LAN devices now are compatible (mostly intel and Realtek), they are fast and very reliable with low possibilities of cuttings or disturbances. Wifi on the other hand needs extra patches and/or kexts and may or may not work OOB, but if you know how to make it work and really don’t have a LAN access, you’re free to try it.

  • A 4GB USB

  • No need for big USBs, a 4GB one is just enough

  • A Windows computer access with Administrative rights

  • You can do this too on macOS, I’ll talk about it later, but this guide is mainly for people without macOS access.

  • Your Clover folder and kexts

  • If you’re new here, go to Vanilla Guide by /u/corpnewt and either make your own config.plist or use the generic one, or get one from Rehabman's Repo that is close to your system's configuration. The rest of the files needed will be discussed later in the guide.

  • If you already have a working Clover folder (without DSDT/SSDT preferably), you're good to go.

  • An AppleID (MENDATORY)

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  • All your mental powers (we're not in 4chan here, you can unlock your brain now).

Now that you have prepared the above, we'll need to boot to windows now (we'll talk about macOS/X way later).

  1. Downlaod BootDiskUtility from cvad. (Check the InsanelyMac thread here)

  2. Extract it and open BootDiskUtility

  3. Go to DL Center > hit Update > when it’s done, select in HD Recovery for Mac OS X your desired macOS/X version (goes from 10.9 up to 10.12, in the time of writing) > hit DL

  • For some reason, if you do not select Update, you’ll see the 10.7 recovery if you want it for older systems

  • Once downloaded it will extract it as '4.hfs' which contains the Recovery Image of your macOS/X.

  1. Now open Options > Configuration… and choose to 'Save after DL' and to 'Check at Startup', also make sure the 'Boot Partition Size' is >=200MB. DO NOT CHOOSE 'Enable Fixed Disks', unless you have an external HDD that won't show up (get you a normal USB flash drive). Select OK.

  2. Now select 'Format Disk' and that will install CLOVER on the USB and repartition it.

  3. Expand your USB after it has been formatted and partitioned, select your second partition and select 'Restore Partition', choose your 4.hfs and select Open.

  4. Once done, you will see a CLOVER named partition on your computer, you can open it, and replace the folders kexts, ACPI (if you have your own SSDT/DSDT), driver64UEFI (or driver64 for legacy users) and the config.plist with your own. For new fellows, replace the config.plist and add HFSPlus.efi and add VoodooPS2 kextonly for people with PS/2 devices (or Synaptics/ALPS/Elan… devices on laptops) Lilu in companion with Whatevergreen for AMD/ATI GPU powered computers ORNvidiaGraphicsFixup for Nvidia ORIntelGraphicsFixup for Intel HD4200 and higher. You will mostly NEED other things too, so head to the Vanilla Guide I linked above to get going.

TiP: Clean up your clover folder as shown here:

8. Add your LAN card kext under CLOVER > EFI > CLOVER > kexts > Other >

TiP: You may add USBInjectAll kext too to fix some USB booting issues (not guaranteed, but trying won't hurt).

9. Plug your LAN cable, and boot up your Clover USB:

  • For UEFI people, boot it as you would

  • For Legacy people, choose your USB and hit quickly and repeatedly '6' on top of your letters to run CLOVERX64 if you kept CLOVERIA32 in the USB, if you removed it, you can boot it normally, but hitting '6' won't hurt. You will see a '6' on the top left screen where the cursor is. If by any means it shows a 'UEFI Management/Setup' page, boot your usb normally without touching anything.

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  1. Boot to your macOS installer, prepare your install destination disk (HFS+ and whatnot, I will not show you how, as it is covered in the main vanilla guide)

  2. When you hit 'Install macOS' or 'Reinstall macOS', you'll be asked to verify your computer, select next, then agree to terms and license (yeah ofc, you read it, right?) and it will ask you for an AppleID, put yours (or make one on another device) and select Sign in, once in, the download and install will start. The install will be the same as it normally goes, the first part when it downloads and prepares the files to be installed, and the second part when it will actually install macOS (with either the black Apple logo and the time remaining on the bottom or the classic window with macOS logo and the progress bar).

  3. …

  4. Enjoy.

There will be an update, hopefully, to do the same thing with macOS's recovery or recoveryhdupdate.pkg.

Edit 1: Fixed some typos.

Edit 2: Fixed BDU's link

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