I have a MBP(2012) 16gig of ram. I had done the upgrade to pb6 and everything worked fine. So now I want to do a clean install. I formated the drive and created a bootable usb, it is just sitting at the apple logo with the progressbar at half for 45min. I see no drive activity or usb.
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How long is the install suppose to take?
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It took me a little over 2 hours to get everything running. I did my download and install between 1am - 3am, eastern time. There were a couple of periods where my screen was blank and I was also questioning if anything was happening ... but I let it run and it completed.
I got it downloaded pretty fast, its the install, I did restart the process its been going an hour at half progress but this time the usb is "breathing" so there is some activity
My 2013 MBA did the upgrade in around 20 minutes, once the installer was local. 2011 MBP with SSD took about 35 minutes.
I create a bootable disk on my 500GB Toshiba Extern Disk USB 3 - i installed Yosemite, in... Mayby 25 min on my 2014 MacBook Air SSD. I Think it going really fast, mayby i doing it wrong....?
On my college wifi, I started at 5pm and it finished DOWNLOADING the next morning. But afterward, since I'm on a 2014 rMBP, it only took about 15 minutes to install 
I'm about to do a time machine restore. I really wanted a clean install since this computer had Lion>ML>Mavericks and in the beginning I was a noob to osx so I installed alot of scripts/programs and things I probably didnt need.
I decided against tm recovery. I use internet recovery, installed Lion and I will upgrade from that. the Lion install is just now finishing up.
I decided against tm recovery. I use internet recovery, installed Lion and I will upgrade from that. the Lion install is just now finishing up.
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