> Chris, > After turning on your mac and before hearing the little jingle, press and > hold your option key. This will stop the mac from booting off of your hard > drive, and instead present you with a little menu. It's horizontal, but we > have no speech feedback. Left is macintosh hd and the cursor is on it. On my > machine, and it just takes a little experimenting, is the recovery lion > partition, if you use lion at all. Next to the recovery partition is a third > choice. This could be your flash drive. So after having held option right > after turning on your mac, hold it some 5 seconds after you heard the jingle. > Then release. The menu is now there. Now, arrow right once and hit enter to > boot off of the second menu choice and see where that gets you. If it was the > recovery partition, you know that from now on, so next time, choose the next > option and see if that is your flash drive. > > Hth, > Paul. > On Aug 6, 2012, at 3:19 AM, Chris Snyder <[email protected]> wrote: > >> And how do you tell the computer to boot from the flash drive? I know the CD >> is the c key, but I can't remember how to start on the flash drive. >> >> Friendly, >> Chris >> On Aug 7, 2011, at 7:14 AM, Joseph Norton wrote: >> >>> 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. 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