Install Mavericks, Lion/Mountain Lion Using Internet Recovery

Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.

 

Boot to the Internet Recovery HD:

 

Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND-OPTION- R keys until a globe appears on the screen. Wait patiently – 15-20 minutes – until the Recovery main menu appears.

 

Partition and Format the hard drive:

 

1. Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
2. After DU loads select your newly installed hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.’s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed. Quit DU and return to the main menu.

 

Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion. Mavericks: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion, Mavericks and click on the Install button. Be sure to select the correct drive to use if you have more than one.

 

Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.

 

This should restore the version of OS X originally pre-installed on the computer.

Add new user via PhpMyAdmin

Once you are in, we will be making changes to the wp_users and wp_usermeta tables. Lets go ahead and click on wp_users table.

We need to insert our new admin user’s information, so click on the Insert tab like it shows in the image above. In the insert form, add the following:

• ID – pick a number (in our example, we will use the number 4).
• user_login – insert the username you want to use to access the WordPress Dashboard.
• user_pass – add a password for this username. Make sure to select MD5 in the functions menu (Refer to the screenshot below).
• user_nicename – put a nickname or something else that you would like to refer yourself as.
• user_email – add the email you want to associate with this account.
• user_url – this would be the url to your website.
• user_registered – select the date/time for when this user is registered.
• user_status – set this to 0.
• display_name – put the name you like to display for this user on the site (it can be your user_nicename value as well).
• Click on the Go Button

Next we are going to have to add the values to wp_usermeta table. Click on the wp_usermeta table and then click on the Insert tab just like the previous step. Then add the following information to the insert form:

• unmeta_id – leave this blank (it will be auto-generated)
• user_id – this will be the id of the user you created in the previous step. Remember we picked 4.
• meta_key – this should be wp_capabilities
• meta_value – insert this: a:1:{s:13:"administrator";s:1:"1";}

Insert another row with the following information:

• unmeta_id – leave this blank (it will be auto-generated)
• user_id – this will be the id of the user you created in the previous step. Remember we picked 4.
• meta_key – this should be wp_user_level
• meta_value – 10

 

New plugin – Add a top level menu page.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_menu_page