I downloaded the Mac OS X Lion Installer for $29.99, and I did what a normal cheapskate/miser did: I downloaded Lion Diskmaker from Serial Serveur, ran it, and I had a 4GB SSK bootable Lion Install Disk.
Now I'm trying to install Lion with the usb I made for installing Lion for my friend (we had no Wi-Fi) at that time, and so I put my usb in his Mac, open the disk, pressed install Lion or something like that, it opened up the Lion install window, I went through the agreements (you know, that check box that every one lies about), and it started installing.
It told me to restart his computer, and I did, but then it just booted to that Recovery HD you enter normally in Lion using Command-R, and it really freaked me out. I thought I screwed up his computer (which he hadn't backed up using Time Machine for weeks), and I restarted his computer, pray it would just boot back to the old Snow Leopard, and thank god it did.
Now I'm just trying to find out what to do. I searched the web, and every website says that Lion Diskmaker makes a "bootable" disk, so does that mean I should just turn on his computer while pressing the Option key? Or was the disk supposed to boot me to the Recovery HD, and then I should restore using Time Machine or install another copy of Lion?
I really need help like fast, because I'm gonna try it again tomorrow.
Thanks to anyone who tries to or succeeds to helping me with this problem in advance!
Now I'm trying to install Lion with the usb I made for installing Lion for my friend (we had no Wi-Fi) at that time, and so I put my usb in his Mac, open the disk, pressed install Lion or something like that, it opened up the Lion install window, I went through the agreements (you know, that check box that every one lies about), and it started installing.
It told me to restart his computer, and I did, but then it just booted to that Recovery HD you enter normally in Lion using Command-R, and it really freaked me out. I thought I screwed up his computer (which he hadn't backed up using Time Machine for weeks), and I restarted his computer, pray it would just boot back to the old Snow Leopard, and thank god it did.
Now I'm just trying to find out what to do. I searched the web, and every website says that Lion Diskmaker makes a "bootable" disk, so does that mean I should just turn on his computer while pressing the Option key? Or was the disk supposed to boot me to the Recovery HD, and then I should restore using Time Machine or install another copy of Lion?
I really need help like fast, because I'm gonna try it again tomorrow.
Thanks to anyone who tries to or succeeds to helping me with this problem in advance!