Hi Sarah,
As long a you are using ccc's latest version it will here is some info
from an article on how to acheive this with carbon copy cloner .
Using Carbon Copy Cloner Version 3.5 or later of this excellent clone-backup
utility includes a special feature for creating a bootable install drive.
(Carbon Copy Cloner is free to try; you can purchase a license for $40.) Once
you’ve downloaded it from the developer’s website—or, if you already had it,
once you’ve checked to make sure you’ve got the latest version—follow these
steps:
. Find the Mountain Lion installer on your Mac. It’s called
Install OS X Mountain Lion.app and it should have been downloaded to your main
Applications folder (/Applications). Note that Carbon Copy Cloner requires that
the installer be located in the Applications folder on your boot drive, which
means that if you followed my advice to move the installer out of your
Applications folder, you’ll have to move it back, at least temporarily.
. Connect to your Mac the properly formatted hard drive or flash
drive you want to use for your bootable Mountain Lion installer.
. Launch Carbon Copy Cloner.
. In the Source pop-up menu (labeled Select A Source), choose
Create a Mountain Lion Installer. (This mounts the InstallESD.dmg disk image,
mentioned above, and selects it as the source volume.)
. In the Destination pop-up menu (labeled Select A Destination),
choose the drive you’re using for your bootable installer.
. In the Handling Of Data Already On The Destination pop-up menu,
choose Delete Anything That Doesn’t Exist On The Source. Warning: The next step
will effectively erase the destination drive or partition, so make sure it
doesn’t contain any valuable data.
. Click Clone, click Continue in the warning dialog that appears,
and, when prompted, provide an administrator username and password.


Carbon Copy Cloner can create a bootable Mountain Lion installer in a few easy
steps.
As with using Disk Utility, the process takes roughly five to ten minutes. One
difference here: Whereas using Disk Utility names your bootable drive Mac OS X
Install ESD, using Carbon Copy Cloner keeps the drive’s original name.
Booting from the installer drive
You can now boot any Mountain Lion-compatible Mac from this drive: Just connect
the drive to your Mac and either (if your Mac is already booted into OS X)
choose your install drive in the Startup Disk pane of System Preferences or (if
your Mac is currently shut down) hold down the Option key at startup and choose
the install drive when OS X’s Startup Manager appears.
When your Mac is booted from your install drive, you can, of course, install
the OS, but you can also use any of the Mountain Lion installer’s special
recovery and restore features—in fact, when you boot from this drive, you’ll
see the same OS X Utilities screen you get when you boot into OS X Recovery
(recovery mode). However, unlike recovery mode, your bootable installer
includes the entire installer.
[Dan Frakes is a Macworld senior editor. He now has many, many bootable install
drives.]
Updated 7:42am to correct Carbon Copy Cloner price. Updated 12:15 with new Disk
Utility image.
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On 05/08/2012, at 2:50 AM, Sarah Alawami <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ah thanks. will try this. will it format with the guid partition and stuff?
> I assume it will. lol! When I tried this with the old version of carbon
> cloner and lion and my install esd dmg for that it errored out so not sure
> what happened there.
>
> Thanks and take care.
> On Aug 4, 2012, at 4:48 AM, Dean Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> HI All,
>> I used carbon copy cloner to create a bootable usb thumb drive, I have
>> the installesd.dmg on my desktop and another copy of it on a backup drive
>> just selected the install mac osx mountain lion.dmg in the source and my
>> thumb drive in the target of ccc and off you go it didn't take long to
>> create it at all. I did this with the trial version of carbon copy cloner
>> version 3.5.1 you need this version to do this with mountain lion.
>> Regards Dean
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from Dean Adams Macbook Pro
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>> Voip phone: +6124307 9248
>> landline Phone: +61243892195
>> Mobile: +61428133758
>> Skype : deanadams9
>>
>> On 04/08/2012, at 10:29 AM, Sarah Alawami <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> As my not so famous saying goes, Oh, why did I not think of that. Yeah go
>>> to their internet and then download it via their mac app store signed in
>>> as you of corse, copy the app file to a flash drive and when you get home
>>> just use your tools you have in your mac to then make a flash drive, or use
>>> that same flash drive and back that app up some ware else in case you need
>>> it again.On Aug 3, 2012, at 4:32 PM, chris hallsworth
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ar, great to hear you can do it via the Apple retail store.
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas McMahan" <[email protected]>
>>>> To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <[email protected]>
>>>> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 9:32 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: Installing Lion or Later
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Not that I know of, I think they presume everybody has a fast internet or
>>>>> can get to an Apple store which I know of a person who does that for his
>>>>> o s upgrades because his internet seems to drop it partly through the
>>>>> download.
>>>>> On Aug 3, 2012, at 1:37 PM, "chris hallsworth" <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> You know guys, and this is no disrespect to Apple, but I don't like how
>>>>>> they want you to install their software now. I read from their support
>>>>>> web pages that an internet connection is required to install Lion or
>>>>>> later. Well I have a point. What if you do not have either an ethernet
>>>>>> or wireless connection? Is there any ways around this? Thanks!
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