Dilima: Lion seems to not want to install on a clean harddrive that has been reformatted.
Update: I am currently downloading lion for my sister's computer who came to visit and am plaaning to make a usb out of that. Will it work?
So yesterday I decided to install lion onto my iMac. I succesfully completed the tedious task of downloading it and since I do a clean install once every couple of months decided to redo the proccess and get the lion software onto a usb thumb drive. So i booted up from the old snow leopard disk and reformatted and erased the drive. I then preceded to put snow leopard on the disk but it would not let me. So rather than fighting it I used the Recovery HD and tried it that way.
I then started to download it and after 3 hours of waiting when there was only around 30 minutes left it said "Are you sure you would like to cancle download?" I clicked cancel and it popped up again and again I clicked cancel but this time it closed out to the main screen of the recovery HD!
I did this process again and ended up with the same result. Please help me because for now I have no computer and just a heavy paperweight.
Update: I am currently downloading lion for my sister's computer who came to visit and am plaaning to make a usb out of that. Will it work?
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