You can start the internet recovery reinstall process from either a shutdown Mac, or by rebooting the Mac. This process will be the same on any new Mac, be it an i. Mac, Mac. Book Pro, Mac. Book Air, etc Immediately after hearing the Mac boot chime, hold down CommandOptionR if you see the Apple logo you waited too long and need to reboot and try againOPTIONAL You may or may not see an option to join a wi fi network, this depends on whether the Mac can access any saved networks from OS X or not. When you see a spinning globe icon, Internet Recovery mode has been entered with a message saying it can take a while, a progress bar appears as the recovery functions are downloaded. When finished downloading, youll see the familiar OS X Utilities screen, choose Reinstall OS X to begin the re installation process of the Mac operating system. US/osx/yos_text_edit_open.png' alt='How To Install Os X From Another Computer' title='How To Install Os X From Another Computer' />Select the destination and complete the re installation or installation of OS X as usual. Youll notice the version of OS X that can be reinstalled this way is shown in the icon or listed under the Reinstall OS X option, and that version will match whatever version of OS X came preinstalled on the Mac. For example, if the Mac shipped with OS X Mavericks but is now running OS X Yosemite, then OS X Mavericks would be the version that reinstalls through the Internet Recovery reinstall process. For Macs that do not currently have an operating system found or installed, the option will show as Install OS X rather than Reinstall OS X. How To Install Os X From Another Computer' title='How To Install Os X From Another Computer' />Installing and re installing OS X through Internet Recovery is pretty easy, but do be aware that because everything is coming from Apple servers, it can take quite a while as the system restore features are downloaded locally, and then the version of OS X to install are also downloaded locally as well. When OS X has finished installing on the Mac, it will boot into a fresh install of OS X system software. Do note that if you are reinstalling OS X to try and repair some greatly messed up operating system install, youd likely be better off performing a true clean install of the system software by formatting the drive and then installing OS X onto it or another drive. If interested in going that route, you can learn about clean installing OS X Yosemite, or clean installing OS X Mavericks, both of which are best performed from a separate boot drive or bootable USB installer. You can also use CommandR to boot into Recovery mode, older Mac models that do not support Internet Recovery will need to do that. Note that newer Macs that have both options can choose either, or they can can skip the recovery drive and go directly into Internet Recovery by using the CommandOptionR boot shortcut. VMware Documentation for OS X 1. The OS X 1. 0. 1. The OS X 1. 0. 1. Installation Instructions for VMware ESXi 6. You install OS X 1. OS X 1. 0. 1. 0. Prerequisites. Before you begin, verify that the following tasks are complete Read General Installation Instructions for All VMware Products. You already have Install OS X Mountain Lion. OS X 1. 0. 8. Ensure your physical system is an Apple labeled computer. This is required to install or run OS X 1. OS X 1. 0. 9, or OS X 1. Ensure you physical system can support an additional virtual machine with at. GB of RAM. Installation Steps. Create a new virtual machine and select the Apple Mac OS X 1. An existing Windows computerMacHackintosh This is the computer where you will download and set up Niresh. The computer can run either Windows or Mac OS X both. How to Install macOS on a Windows PC. This wikiHow teaches you how to run Mac OS X on your Windows computer. To do this, you will need to download an app called Unibeast. Step 2 Install Diskmaker. The next step is simple head to DiskMakerX. DiskMaker. This free program makes creating a bootable OS X. REFInd allows your Mac to boot from multiple operating systems, including OS X, Ubuntu, and others. Screen shot courtesy of Coyote Moon, Inc. Use the virtual machine CDDVD drive for installation. Connect the CDDVD drive to a datastore image file, complete the following steps Add Install OS X Mountain Lion. Set the CDDVD drive to connect to the Install OS X Mountain Lion. ContentsShared. SupportInstall. ESD. dmg image file. Power on the virtual machine. Select your language and click the right arrow. Select Disk Utility and click Continue. In the left hand pane, select the hard disk at the top of the list. Select the Erase tab. Click the Erase. Erase button. Wait for the process to complete. Quit the Disk Utility application. Select Reinstall OS X and click Continue. Follow the prompts to complete the installation. Download OS X Yosemite. Mac App Store, or download it onto another Mac using the Mac App Store, and copy Install OS X Yosemite. Execute Install OS X Yosemite. OS X 1. 0. 1. 0. Install VMware Tools. Installation Instructions for VMware Fusion 7 and Later. You install OS X 1. Prerequisites. Before you begin, verify that the following tasks are complete Read General Installation Instructions for All VMware Products. Download Install OS X Yosemite. Mac App Store. Ensure your physical system is an Apple labeled computer. This is required to install or run OS X 1. Ensure you physical system can support an additional virtual machine with at. GB of RAM. Installation Steps. Start VMware Fusion. Select File New. Drag Install OS X Yosemite. Create a Virtual Machine window. Click Continue. Follow the prompts to complete the installation. Install VMware Tools. VMware Tools in an OS X 1. Guest. For information on VMware Tools, see Knowledge base article 1. General VMware Tools installation instructions, at. Knowledge Base Articles for OS X 1. The following link refers to knowledge base articles on operating system specific issues. See. VMware Knowledge Base for a list of known issues about the operating system. VMware Compatibility Guide The VMware Compatibility Guide Web site lists supported guest and host operating systems and provides related support information.