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Q: Both Mavericks and Yosemite stall at "One Second Remaining"

This has been a very disappointing experience and I am surprised that it came from Apple.  My wife's old Macbook Pro's HDD completely died and so I am replacing it, reinstalling OSX and then putting back what files we could salvage. 

 

I have now tried to create a USB installer for OS X Mavericks and Yosemite.  When I tried the Yosemite installer the error log said it could not find a keychain related file and a decent hour after it said that only a second was remaining, the OS never installed.

 

Now I am trying Mavericks and the log gives many "Could not find package ref" errors and I am coming into an hour of waiting for "one second remaining" to finish and the install to work.

 

Seriously Apple?  This one of the worst and most frustrating installations I have ever done - and that's been a wide range of operating systems in the past.  The install program gives no human friendly error, no indication of what to do, no indication it will ever work.  Most posts seem to say "just wait" ...

 

Just wait?  How long is a user expected to wait for "about a second remaining" to last anyway?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Mar 16, 2015 10:44 PM

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Q: Both Mavericks and Yosemite stall at "One Second Remaining"

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  • by jbirk_mm,

    jbirk_mm jbirk_mm Mar 16, 2015 11:36 PM in response to jbirk_mm
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    Mar 16, 2015 11:36 PM in response to jbirk_mm

    At this point it looks like I will have to go to a Genius Bar just to installl OSX onto a Macbook Pro.  I can't or order a buy a Mavericks or Yosemite install, my wife's HDD is too shot to make a USB installer and it doesn't look like my other laptop will do it (for whatever reason - of which neither Apple nor the installation software can properly report - which is idiotic).

     

    Utterly ridiculous that I have two laptops, the Internet and multiple flash drives but there doesn't seem to be a way to make this work.  Massive fail, Apple.  Massive.  Fail.

  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Mar 17, 2015 9:58 AM in response to jbirk_mm
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    Mar 17, 2015 9:58 AM in response to jbirk_mm

    You can make a bootable USB stick to install using this free program.

     

     

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