Reinstalling 10.8 via terminal

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  1. tonty, May 21, 2013

    tonty macrumors newbie

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    Is it possible to reinstall 10.8 via terminal?

    I have a headless Macmini that I can access via ssh and mount drives, but I'm trying to repair an issue that is preventing me from sharing the screen.

    Full details of the issue here.
    http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=17283787
     
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  2. justperry, May 21, 2013

    justperry macrumors 604

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    No, not possible, you can however reapply the last OS Update, but only if you have that one already downloaded manually to your Mac.

    I know what your issue is, even if you could somehow reinstall 10.8, how the hell can you get connected again after doing so!

    Oh, and I think the last poster in your linked thread has it right, after a restart it won't see any Monitor, so that might be the problem, there is no image/video output.
     
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  3. tonty, May 21, 2013

    tonty thread starter macrumors newbie

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    The Macmini has been restarted loads of times since it was set up, so I'm not sure this is correct. It also doesn't explain why VNC displays the login screen.
     
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  4. freejazz-man, May 23, 2013

    freejazz-man macrumors regular

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    that's because osx starts up the services before it allows the user to login via the GUI, like any unix derivative

    the answer is still no
     
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