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Re:Previously Downloaded OS X Installers No Longer Work by X-Istence on Thursday March 03, 2016 @05:59PM (#11220731)
In newer Mac's (2012 onward IIRC) you can just boot into a net installer, and it goes and fetches the installer from the internet before re-installing.
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Re:Previously Downloaded OS X Installers No Longer Work by escobar on Friday March 04, 2016 @01:57PM (#11226000)
The main reason I don't do this is because I'm often installing the OS to a brand new (blank) drive that has absolutely no recovery on it.
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Re:Previously Downloaded OS X Installers No Longer Work by X-Istence on Friday March 04, 2016 @05:46PM (#11227368)
It is part of the ROM. It can be done with a blank drive.

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/20/internet-recovery-lets-n...

So the drive doesn't even have recovery on it.

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Re:Previously Downloaded OS X Installers No Longer Work by danieldk on Friday March 04, 2016 @03:13AM (#11222614)
Even older Macs (2010 models):

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/07/apple-brings-lion-intern...

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Re:Previously Downloaded OS X Installers No Longer Work by KannO on Friday March 04, 2016 @03:18AM (#11222629)
What happens if no internet connection is available?
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