Hi: Both CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) and Super Duper (from Shirt Pocket Software) will handle this for you. I successfully created a bootable flash drive with both my original OS X Snow Leopard disc and the Lion install image.
Super Duper worked like a champ. On 8/7/11, Georges Zaynoun <[email protected]> wrote: > I simply accomplished this task by using CCC instead of disk utility, > that is much easier and it yielded same result in the end, a bootable > flash drive. > Original message: >> Here's how to get around the issue, click the restore tab, then in the >> list of disks, control click the flash drive and choose set as >> destination. You need to move the mouse to the item, and control click >> it, doing VO shift m won't work, which is probably a bug in disk >> utility. Once that's done, select the disk image for the source in the >> usual way >> On Aug 6, 2011, at 8:36 PM, Matthew Campbell wrote: > >>> Hello everybody. >>> Did we ever end up solving the VO dragging and dropping of the flash >>> drive on the the destination field in disc utility? I'm trying to make >>> a Lion drive right now and am having this issue. >>> Thanks all. > >>> On 2011-07-24, at 6:00 PM, Dan wrote: > >>>> Hello, >>>> I followed the instructions in Disc utility and as far as the drag and >>>> drop, I got as far as setting the drive to be drug, but it never >>>> completed the drag. Then once I got it to complete, but then it became >>>> the source destination. >>>> This whole drag and drop thing is really iffy at best. >>>> I have Lion on a DVD, but for what ever reason, I am totally unable to >>>> get the dmg file to properly be placed on the flash drive. I have never >>>> had any problem with dealing with image files and using disk utility. >>>> Does any one have any suggestions for doing the whole process of >>>> putting the install dmg file on the flash drive as a bootable drive, I >>>> don't mean the part about creating the partition and stuff, I mean the >>>> restore part, it just isn't working at all. So again, instructions for >>>> VO only would be appreciated. >>>> Thanks, > > > >>>> Dan > >>>> On Jul 24, 2011, at 1:38 PM, Courtney Currant wrote: > >>>>> Hi, >>>>> I partitioned a 32 gb flash drive, then I went to the restore tab in >>>>> disc utility. I chose the .dmg file as my source, but how can I choose >>>>> my destination as the flash drive? >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Courtney >>>>> On Jul 24, 2011, at 5:53 AM, Jürgen Fleger wrote: > >>>>>> Hi Teresa and list, > >>>>>> Am 24.07.2011 um 08:03 schrieb Teresa Cochran: > >>>>>>> I saw a few questions on this list about this, so I looked it up. >>>>>>> Here's a link. Note that it's geared more toward sighted users, but >>>>>>> basically it involves taking the .dmg file and working with it in >>>>>>> Disc Utility. >>>>>>> http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-make-your-own-os-x-lion-bootable-usb-flash-drive-tutorial/ > >>>>>> Quite interesting. The only issue: There is no Lion file in my >>>>>> application folder. Do you have an idea what to do then? > >>>>>> Thanks and >>>>>> all the best >>>>>> Jürgen > >>>>>> -- >>>>>> 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. > > >>>>> -- >>>>> 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. > > >>>> -- >>>> 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. > > >>> -- >>> 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. > > >> -- >> 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. > > -- > Georges Zeinoun > Timmerv. 6A, SE54163 SKÖVDE > Tel: +46500201623, +46500482929 > Mobile: +46707567315 > E-mail: [email protected] > > Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. 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