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Possible to upgrade os from startup options?

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cameronjpu

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Aug 24, 2007
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I think I have done this before, but before I tried again I wanted to check with others to make sure that I was correct. What I need to do is upgrade a lion system to Mountain lion, but when I try to run the installer from within Mac OS, it goes nowhere because of some corruption issues I think with the installer within Mac OS. What I think I can do is boot the computer with the option key to my bootable Mac OS USB stick and install from there.

What I want to verify is that I can do an upgrade in that way, not just a clean install.

Any confirmation that that's possible?
 
cameronjpu said:
I think I have done this before, but before I tried again I wanted to check with others to make sure that I was correct. What I need to do is upgrade a lion system to Mountain lion, but when I try to run the installer from within Mac OS, it goes nowhere because of some corruption issues I think with the installer within Mac OS. What I think I can do is boot the computer with the option key to my bootable Mac OS USB stick and install from there.

What I want to verify is that I can do an upgrade in that way, not just a clean install.

Any confirmation that that's possible?
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Yes that will work.
 
Update for the next guy reading this after a Google search - all done, success!
 
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