Is this recovery partition equivalent to creating a bootable lion flash
drive in disk utility or ccc or the like using the installesd.dmg? If
not where is the difference?
Thanks a lot.
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Thought you all might find this important.
Kawal.
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From: Chris Moore <moor...@blueyonder.co.uk <mailto:moor...@blueyonder.co.uk>>
Date: 9 August 2011 08:10:32 AM GMT+01:00
To: Mobile Access Chat <c...@mobileaccess.org <mailto:c...@mobileaccess.org>>
Subject: [M-A] Apple Releases Utility to create USB Key
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Apple Releases Utility to Create Lion Recovery USB Key
Apple today released Lion Recovery Disk Assistant
<http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433>, a utility that lets users create
a Lion recovery partition
<http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/features.html#lionrecovery> 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 <http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433>.
Apple's knowledge base article <http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4848>
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
<http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/21/lion-clean-install-requires-snow-leopard-disk/>
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
<http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/18/make-an-os-x-lion-boot-disc/> unnecessary.
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