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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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