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Best way to install lion on blank mba ssd

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cis4life

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Hello,

I purchased a larger HD for my MBA 11'. It will be here today. I have the new MBA 2011 with lion installed, but of course i'll be removing that one (128) and placing in the new 256 ssd. So the SSD will be blank.

Will I be able to simply use the OTA install of lion onto the HD? I will have a time machine of my current hd. But didn't know if something special was on the original HD's to allow the OTA install of lion

What would you do?
 
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cis4life said:
Hello,

I purchased a larger HD for my MBA 11'. It will be here today. I have the new MBA 2011 with lion installed, but of course i'll be removing that one (128) and placing in the new 256 ssd. So the SSD will be blank.

Will I be able to simply use the OTA install of lion onto the HD? I will have a time machine of my current hd. But didn't know if something special was on the original HD's to allow the OTA install of lion

What would you do?
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I would use Carbon Copy Cloner
 
I can try that,

But would the OTA install for lion work on a blank SSD, or is something special on those ssd drives coming from apple that allows this?
 
Can't you just Command+R on start-up and then use the online install/recovery from Apple's server to download Lion, etc?
 
vkuber said:
Can't you just Command+R on start-up and then use the online install/recovery from Apple's server to download Lion, etc?
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That's exactly what I did. Make sure to open the App Store to register your Mac and get your free iLife downloads first.
 
anyone have a video how to change the SSD on the new MBA?? (I have the 13 inches)

And where to buy the SSD
 
I paid 440 for my ssd. a bit more if i would of had it custom from apple. But the mba was a gift from my wife. So It had everything, i just needed a larger ssd.
 
mmendoza27 said:
That's exactly what I did. Make sure to open the App Store to register your Mac and get your free iLife downloads first.
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What do you by free iLife downloads? I see some updates for iPhoto, iMovie, etc in my App store. Am I missing something here? Just picked up my MBA last night and can't find were to register it on the App store as well. I am back to a MAC after a long time so I am kind of learning on the go again.
 
The Internet recovery works only with the new 2011 MBA models. I tried it on mine: Removed all partitions with a bootable Ubuntu-USB-Stick and then pressed CMD+R at the next startup. Everythig was downloaded from the internet over WIFI.

As this is a firmware feature, it only works with the new models, starting with the new 2011 MBA.

Note: I never had to enter my Apple-ID or register in the Appstore. The preinstalled Lion is purely bound to the Hardware-ID.
 
vkuber said:
What do you by free iLife downloads? I see some updates for iPhoto, iMovie, etc in my App store. Am I missing something here? Just picked up my MBA last night and can't find were to register it on the App store as well. I am back to a MAC after a long time so I am kind of learning on the go again.
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Assuming you have logged into App Store - as soon as it offers you those updates then the iLife is allocated to your account.
 
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