Hi Nic It's worth pointing out again that the DVD option doesn't work on the server hardware.
Gordon On 30 Jul 2011, at 17:57, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi! Yeah, the button is definitely there. I've done it, too, but it's kind of a roundabout way of performing a clean install. The fastest way I've found so far was to burn it to a DVD, then use Disk utilities on that DVD to format the drive and install the operating system. Installing OS X Lion, then launching its recovery partition only to reformat, then download the image off of Apple's servers seems ridiculous, even though that seems to be the method Apple even recommends. I guess, in truth, it was meant as an upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion given its distribution through the App Store, and I can see why. Since the Recovery Partition it carves out needs the Application later in order to get access to the disk image on your internal drive, it can't format the drive nor reinstall it from scratch without a DVD or downloading a new installer. Now, if it only downloaded an application which contained an application to extract the recovery image, it'd be another story as you could then download the entire operating system off of Apple's servers from the recovery partition. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the following URL: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
