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xfusejc

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Dec 29, 2006
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Went through the process. Added a 8GB partition to my HDD, made a bootable Mavericks installation on it, restarted, pressed Option and chose the installer. Chose the option (I think it was the first option, might have been the second one) to do a "clean install" of Mavericks. It took the whole 45 minutes or so and when it restarted, it had upgraded, not started anew.

Is there something else I need to choose while at that menu? Maybe open the HDD in Disk Utility and erasing it? I figured just doing an install from there would provide a clean install, as I'd rather not do it as an upgrade.

Any help would be great!
 
Maybe open the HDD in Disk Utility and erasing it?
This.

Has been this way since... 10.6, I think? The installer does upgrade installations by default. I think it's a good default, preventing the less OS-X-savvy from accidentally deleting anything.
 
This.

Has been this way since... 10.6, I think? The installer does upgrade installations by default. I think it's a good default, preventing the less OS-X-savvy from accidentally deleting anything.

Darn. I should have known.

Alright. Thanks.
 
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