Updated to Mavericks then Yosemite: Internet Recovery still installs Lion?

[Audigex]

Hi

I was running Snow Leopard then Mountain Lion previously (Possibly with Lion in the middle), then used Internet Recovery to restore back to Lion (For some reason Mountain Lion wasn't linked to my Apple Account). I then upgraded to Mavericks and again to Yosemite and used the machine like this for a while. So as far as I can tell, it's been upgraded all the way from Snow Leopard to Yosemite, via every other version at some point.

About 20 minutes ago I used the Recovery Partition to restore Yosemite back to the HDD, this worked fine. I then took the HDD out (plan is to keep it in ready in case the SSD dies, this is my development machine so it's nice to jump straight back in rather than having to restore properly) and put my new SSD in

I ran Internet Recovery and... Lion again? I know I can upgrade this straight up to Yosemite once I'm in, but that means downloading Lion followed by Yosemite, which seems silly. Is there any way I can force Yosemite to write itself to the Internet Recovery...thing...so that next time I use Internet Recovery it doesn't try to restore Lion?

 

[Audigex]

Ah, I've answered my own question: It appears that if you use Internet Recovery, you can only install the OS that came with the machine (or, in this case, Lion, since Snow Leopard didn't have Internet Recovery)

I can re-install Yosemite, but only if I use the Recovery Partition on the HD with the existing install.

Seems a bit silly now that OSX updates are free, but whatever... it's only a couple of hours worth of bandwidth! (I want my FTTC back!)

 

[VaderDSL]

First thing I always do is create a USB installer for the new OS

http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372

Like yourself I hate having to do internet restore over a non FTTC connection, so I just use a USB external hard drive.

 

[Audigex]

Perfect, thanks

I love Internet Recovery as a backup option, but that seems a better option in general