"Not enough space on /dev/disk1s2 to restore" 8Gb (or more) its going to have to be. Of course it doesn't need to be a USB stick, an SD card or hard drive or anything else that boots for that matter will do.
On 20 July 2011 19:15, Martin Douglas <[email protected]> wrote: > As I feared. Looks like I'll have to pick up something tomorrow. May as > well go with 8 Gb to be on the safe side. Good luck with the installation. > > Martin > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 20 Jul 2011, at 19:11, Toby Leighton <[email protected]> wrote: > > The download is around 4Gb so you are going to be out of luck with 2Gb. Im > about to try doing the restore DMG thing onto a 4Gb stick and I'll reply if > it fits. > > On 20 July 2011 19:03, Martin Douglas < <[email protected]> > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks to all for the suggestions you have made. My gut feeling is to go >> with a Western Digital 500 Gb or 1 Tb model. In my fury with my LaCie >> drives, they literally went out of the window when all my efforts to >> resuscitate them failed. >> >> On a separate issue, I bought Lion today and will need to install it from >> a USB flash drive (as I have yet to buy my external drive). Can anyone >> suggest what size I need? I think the largest I have is 2 Gb which I suspect >> is not going to be large enough. >> >> Martin >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To post to this group, send an email to <[email protected]> >> [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> <smug%[email protected]>[email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> <http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB> >> http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB.
