Sort of... I guess it's a thing I'll have to look at to understand. On 8/3/12, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Josh > > Firstly, Josh, from the Finder you can press Command+Shift+A to open the > /applications folder. Command+Shift+U will open the /applications/utilities > folder. There are a number of other shortcuts, (Found in System > Preverences>Keyboard>Shortcuts. > > If you use the recovery tool, it gathers the information from whatever OS > you happen to have installed. So, although it says it is a "Lion" Recovery > tool, it actually works fine on Mountain Lion. So really, I do not > understand why people are finding it so hard. :) > > Just run the recovery tool, point it to where you want your drive created > and it copies the OS, block by block on a sector-level so it erases > everything on your recovery destination drive. You do not even need to have > the installDVD.dmg on your system. > > I hope that makes things more clear. Now, for those who might want the > recovery tool, I will repost the link to it on our dropbox: No need for > Lion Diskmaker or anything additional. I gather from what I've read on > MacWorld, you can also use this to write the recovery disk to a flash card. > Again, it's done at a block level so you shouldn't, although it's probably a > good ideas to, partition your drive as "Guide" Partition in advance. > > You can find the tool here: > > <https://dl.dropbox.com/u/22572701/RecoveryDiskAssistant.dmg> > > Gordon > > On 3 Aug 2012, at 12:52, josh gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > > Didn't even know that command existed! Ah, the joys of being a > newbee... :) so, ok, now that we're on the same page, how would > burning a copy to a thumb drive be done? Thanks! > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > 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/> >
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