Cant install OSX El Capitan

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Hi guys, recently I downloaded the new El Capitan OSX on the apple website, on the beta program... Today my computer couldnt do anything because it was full of memory so I decided to erase the whole disk... When I finished erasing it I remembered I shouldnt do that as this OS wasnt released yet. And now I cant Install any OS... At the moment I am stuck on the internet recovery mode... What do I do? Am I stuck until October?
 
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First, please explain what you mean by "full of memory". "Memory" is usually reserved for the computer memory, ie, RAM, that your machine has. For example, both of my Macs have 4 gigabytes of RAM each. Hard disk space, on the other hand, is not referred to as memory. It is hard disk space.

Next, assuming you completely erased the entire disk, then formatted and partitioned it (most likely only 1 partition), you should be able to install Yosemite (OS 10.10), then via the just released OS 10.10.4 Combo Updater (available here: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1820?locale=en_US), arrive at OS 10.10.4.

In any event, how did you "erase" the whole disk? I actually make a SuperDuper! backup/clone of each of my machines to two separate external devices each week, and thus have an external way of recovering. From this link:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201314

it looks like you should be able to recover.
 
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