2010 white MacBook trying to clean install OS X

[desura]

I'm trying to do a clean install of os x on this machine. I have a new hard drive hooked up inside. When I plug in the recovery hard drive with a clean image of OS X it will go a little bit up the progress bar and then the entire machine will shut down.

What is going on?

 

[TheStu]

Do you still have a drive with OS X installed on it?
Was this a problem that it was exhibiting before?

 

[iluvdeal]

I'd try to boot from an OSX DVD or flash drive equivalent, something could be wrong with the recovery hard drive.

 

[Beer4Me]

I'd try to boot from an OSX DVD or flash drive equivalent, something could be wrong with the recovery hard drive.

^ this guy gets it.

 

[Rakehellion]

I had a bad hard drive that fried my motherboard once. Sucked.

 

[desura]

I've tried two recovery hard drives so far.

My friend says that I have to hold down command-r the entire time during he install which I think is pretty ridiculous but might explain it all. Otherwise, I am thinking either a main board or RAM problem

 

[desura]

Now I'm stuck with, "to download and restore OS X your computer's eligibility will be verified with Apple" upon which it returns an error

 

[rugby]

If you have an external drive with OS X on it you can log into the app store and download another installer. Or use a deployment image. We have images for 10.8, 10.9, and 10.10 that can simply be placed onto the drive and it's much faster.

 

[TheStu]

I've tried two recovery hard drives so far.

My friend says that I have to hold down command-r the entire time during he install which I think is pretty ridiculous but might explain it all. Otherwise, I am thinking either a main board or RAM problem

You DO NOT have to hold down CMD+R the entire time. That's crazy talk.

 

[KeithP]

I've tried two recovery hard drives so far.

My friend says that I have to hold down command-r the entire time during he install which I think is pretty ridiculous but might explain it all. Otherwise, I am thinking either a main board or RAM problem

That is "Internet Recovery" which your machine may or may not support.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201314

-KeithP