My God, where is it all taking us? I shall stay away from Lion for a while longer until i find a creative genius that just blows it into my computer like God created the world through one breath. Marta
On Nov 5, 2011, at 9:19 AM, Ed Wiser wrote: > Tutorial: How to create an OS X Lion boot drive > Techradar - All the latest technology news > > How to create an OS X Lion boot drive > > Unlike previous versions of Mac OS X, Lion isn't delivered on physical media. > Instead, you buy and download it from Snow Leopard's Mac App Store. > > But what if you want to do a clean install, boot from an optical or external > drive or install Lion on all your Macs (which is perfectly legal) without > downloading it over and over again? > > Thankfully, there's a way of creating a boot drive, either on a DVD or an > external USB or FireWire drive. Administrator privileges are needed, so make > sure you have your password handy. > > First of all, purchase and download Lion from the Mac App Store. When it's > finished downloading, an app called 'Install Mac OS X Lion' appears in your > Applications folder and your Dock. It runs automatically, but instead of > following the on-screen instructions to install the new operating system, > quit the installer; you can run it again later by clicking on its Dock icon, > as you would any other application. > > Show Package Contents > > > > Find the 3.76GB Install Mac OS X Lion file located in your Applications > folder. Right-click the icon and select Show Package Contents. In the Finder > window that opens, navigate to Contents > SharedSupport, and copy the file > InstallESD.dmg by moving it to another location while holding the Option key. > > You can then follow the steps outlined below to create a bootable USB drive > or DVD. > > After installing Lion, the Install Mac OS X Lion file disappears, and you > can't download it again through the App Store; if you open your Purchased > tab, you find the option is greyed because Lion's already installed. > > If you have access to a Mac that's still running Snow Leopard, use it to open > the Mac App Store and sign in. You can then download it through the Purchased > tab without paying again. If not, you must create a Snow Leopard drive to > boot from. > > First, find an external hard drive and connect it to your Mac. Make sure > there's nothing on there you want to keep, then open Disk Utility. Select the > drive from the left-hand column, open the Erase tab and select Mac OS > Extended (Journaled) from the Format tab. Name it whatever you like, and > press Erase to wipe and format it. > > Time to restart > > > > With your Snow Leopard install disc in the optical drive, restart your Mac > with the Option key held down. Choose to boot from Mac OS X Install DVD, and > when instructed, install Snow Leopard on the external drive. > > After your Mac reboots from the newly installed version of Snow Leopard, > follow the on-screen prompts to set it up, as you would a new Mac. Update to > 10.6.8 using Software Update, and open the Mac App Store. Sign in, and select > the Purchased tab. Lion is available to download; you won't have to pay for > it again. > > When it's finished downloading, the installer starts automatically. Quit it > and extract InstallESD.dmg from the Install Mac OS X Lion file found in > Applications, as described above. > > If you wish to boot back into Lion before finishing the tutorial, you can; > simply restart your Mac holding Option, and this time choose your main hard > drive. The Lion installer you just downloaded can then be found by navigating > to the external drive's Applications folder. > > How to make an install drive and perform a clean install > > > > 1. Create a USB boot drive > > First, find a USB (or if you prefer, FireWire) drive of at least 5GB in size. > You can use an external hard disk drive or a flash drive; it doesn't matter > which, as long as it's formatted to Mac OS Extended (Journaled). If it isn't, > reformat it using Disk Utility. > > > > 2. Restore the disk image > > In Disk Utility, click on the Restore tab. Drag the InstallESD.dmg file you > extracted from the Lion installer application earlier into the Source field. > Drag the drive or partition from the left-hand column into the Destination > field. Press the Restore button. > > > > 3. The finished product > > When the process is complete, your external drive can be used as a Lion boot > drive, and also to install Lion on other Macs. To learn how to boot from this > drive, perform a clean install or just install Lion on another Snow Leopard > Mac, see Steps 6-8. > > > > 4. Create a boot DVD > > The process for creating a bootable DVD is very similar, and again uses Disk > Utility and demands the InstallESD.dmg file we extracted from the Lion > installer. First, insert a blank DVD. Open Disk Utility, and press the Burn > button on the left of the top bar. > > > > 5. Burn the disc > > A window opens entitled Select Image to Burn. In this window, navigate to and > select the InstallESD.dmg file, and press Burn. A window opens in Disk > Utility inviting you to burn the disc – do so. When it's finished, the disc > is ejected. You've created a boot DVD. > > > > 6. Use the boot disc or drive > > To boot your Mac from your newly created DVD or external drive, first insert > the disc or connect the drive. Restart your Mac while holding down the Option > key. You're given a choice of devices to boot from. Select your new boot > volume and it boots to this window. > > > > 7. A clean install > > To perform a clean install, select the Disk Utility menu from the window. > Highlight your Mac's main boot drive, and erase it. Quit Disk Utility and > from the menu window, choose Reinstall Mac OS X. The boot volume you created > doesn't require internet access to install. > > > > 8. A standard install > > To install Lion without erasing your Mac's hard drive, restart using your new > boot volume, and select Reinstall Mac OS X as outlined in Step 7, but without > using Disk Utility to wipe the boot drive. Again, you don't need to be > connected to the internet to install. > > > > > > > Sent with Reeder > > > Sent from my iPhone > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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