Thought you all might find this important. Kawal.
Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: Chris Moore <moor...@blueyonder.co.uk> > Date: 9 August 2011 08:10:32 AM GMT+01:00 > To: Mobile Access Chat <c...@mobileaccess.org> > Subject: [M-A] Apple Releases Utility to create USB Key > Reply-To: Mobile Access Chat <c...@mobileaccess.org> > > Apple Releases Utility to Create Lion Recovery USB Key > > Apple today released Lion Recovery Disk Assistant, a utility that lets users > create a Lion recovery partition on an external drive or USB key. Lion > Recovery lets users "repair disks or reinstall OS X Lion without the need for > a physical disc." > > > To create an external Lion Recovery, download the Lion Recovery Disk > Assistant application. Insert an external drive, launch the Lion Recovery > Disk Assistant, select the drive where you would like to install, and follow > the on screen instructions. > > When the Lion Recovery Disk Assistant completes, the new partition will not > be visible in the Finder or Disk Utility. To access Lion Recovery, reboot the > computer while holding the Option key. Select Recovery HD from the Startup > Manager. > > Lion Recovery Disk Assistant can be downloaded from Apple's support website. > > Apple's knowledge base article about the utility notes that the partition it > creates has all the same capabilities as the Lion Recovery that is installed > during a Lion installation. However, this partition could be used in the > event a user can't start their computer from the Recovery partition or if the > hard drive is replaced. > [Users can] reinstall Lion, repair the disk using Disk Utility, restore from > a Time Machine backup, or browse the web with Safari. This drive can be used > in the event you cannot start your computer with the built-in Recovery HD, or > you have replaced the hard drive with a new one that does not have Mac OS X > installed. > > The document has two final notes: > - If the computer shipped with Lion, the external recovery drive can only be > used with the system that created it. > > - If the system was upgraded from Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard to Lion, the > external recovery drive can be used with other systems that were upgraded > from Snow Leopard to Lion. > > We had previously reported that in order to do a clean install of Lion, Snow > Leopard would need to be installed first. With this recovery partition > creator, there is now an official path to perform a clean install without > Snow Leopard. Also, this would seem to make the unofficial Lion boot disk > creator unnecessary. > > > ---------- > > * M-A offers email notifications for new podcasts, tutorials, and more! > http://www.mobileaccess.org/notifications > * Manage your membership independently at: > http://My.MobileAccess.org/ > * List archive is at: > http://groups.google.com/group/mobileaccess/topics > * Need help? Send email to: h...@mobileaccess.org > > > Mobile access is managed by Carlos Palomino, Taylor Scott, and Ricardo Walker. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
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