<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">I had todo a re-install on my 2010 MacBook Pro with High Sierra from scratch, my copy of High sierra I had was corrupted and caused my all kind of grief. I finally downloaded a new copy on my iMac using the command line</div><div dir="ltr"><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 21.3px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21.33px;"><br></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 21.3px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21.33px;">softwareupdate --list-full-installers</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 21.3px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21.33px;">softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 10.13.6</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 21.3px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21.33px;"><br></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 21.3px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21.33px;">After the download I created a bootable image on a USB stick.</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 21.3px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21.33px;"><br></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 21.3px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21.33px;">I did a new install of mac ports and my applications. </span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 21.3px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21.33px;">Regards,</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 21.3px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21.33px;">Horst</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 21.3px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21.33px;"><br></span></p></div><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite">On 5 May 2024, at 17:46, Riccardo Mottola via macports-users <macports-users@lists.macports.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>Hi all,</span><br><span></span><br><span>I have a slightly off-topic question.</span><br><span></span><br><span>I think the Hard Disk of my older MacBook Pro is failing. The computer has long delays sometimes, in random moments. Maybe at login, maybe at application startup. I never see error and when activity resumes, everything goes fine, including GIT usage, browsing, compilation. No "pattern". Disk Utility reports a verified SMART status and Disk First Aid says all is OK.</span><br><span></span><br><span>However Console reports:</span><br><span>kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.</span><br><span></span><br><span>about the same time when he delay started. I suppose some kind of issues (eg. going out of calibration, head reset...), maybe nothing is corrupted yet, but... I suppose the only fix is a disk replacement. I wonder why SMART doesn't alert anything, but maybe the detailed status should be inspected. Is there a command line utility that can give more detail?</span><br><span></span><br><span>My question is your experience in reinstall.</span><br><span></span><br><span>First way would be to able to format, partition and copy all files to an external hard disk, swap and reboot. I have done this once 10 years ago in PowerPC times and it was not trivial and they sell software to do that, which I don't want to buy.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Second way would be to reinstall MacOS 10.11 (no DVD available...) from scratch and then copy or reinstall things (including MacPorts, of course).</span><br><span></span><br><span>With a "new" hard disk, what is the best way to reinstall OS like Apple supplied? In the past I had some bad experiences with Internet install not working/completing with weird errors.</span><br><span>Also, I'd like to have disk utility and recovery working. I wonder if it will work or some magic partition needs to recreated?</span><br><span>Hardware Diagnostic Tools need to be installed extra, I have read.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Riccardo</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>