Hey everyone, ok, here is my experience so far. One of my other macs is doing the install now. Purchased the app and downloaded it. Used disk utility to make a bootable DVD, also attempted to make a bootable flash drive, but disk utility seems to require you to drag the disk image to the destination, tried that but couldn't seem to get that to work. So I used super duper to clone the image to my flash drive, actually it's an 8 GB micro SD card and a card reader, but should be the same. Attempted to boot the mac using the flash drive first, that didn't seem to work, the apple logo displayed for a while, then the screen stayed blank, waited for about 15 minutes, then I decided to try the DVD I made. Having better luck with that, mac booted, started voiceover and used disk utility to erase my hard drive, since I want to do a clean install. Now comes the interesting part, it wants you to enter your apple ID and password, I guess to verify that you have purchased 10.7. There are actually 2 windows open here, one is the installer, and there is another window behind that where you need to enter your user name and password. I know a few users have had problems with this, to get around it, press control option function F2 twice. When booted from the DVD, the function keys are configured to do hardware functions. You need to do this key stroke twice, the first time reads the window title, the second time will open the window chooser menu where you can switch to the sign in window. After entering the user name and password, it's downloading components, I figured it would just use what was already on the DVD, it's probably downloading the same thing, but there doesn't seem to be a way around that. Also, the customize option was disabled, so hopefully it will not install all of the multilanguage support, since I don't really need that or all the print drivers. Not sure why the flash drive method did not work, but so far the DVD is working.
-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
