Recovery / Internet Recovery not working to reinstall Mac OS X
I recently got an old iMac (Mid-2011) from a family member that didn't use it anymore. Wanted to wipe the OS and reinstall for optimal performance, but have been unable to reinstall the OS. I erased the hard drive with the OS and tried to use the Internet Recovery feature to reinstall OS X Yosemite, but it only gave the option for OS X Lion. I proceeded anyway and tried to install Lion and it keeps saying "unable to download additional items". The progress bar always jumps to the end while the estimated time remaining is in the billions of hours, and then ends with that error message. I have another macbook air to make a bootable USB but I cant figure out how to get the Lion (or Yosemite idk which one i need anymore) on my macbook air to make the drive. Should I just go to the apple store?