How to fresh install Lion

[Slinkington]

Hi there,

I just got a new iMac and am giving my old one to my Dad. I bought it years ago with Leopard, which I upgraded to Snow Leopard and then a few months ago to Lion from the Mac AppStore. I am wondering now, how to wipe the hard drive - and about what to do with the operating systems. Obviously, I bought Lion on my account, so with my Dad creating his own account, will I have to downgrade the OS?

Not really sure what I'm meant to do now, hope this makes sense to you. Thanks for your time.

 

[0000757]

Assuming you have access to the Lion Installer.app:

Make a Bootable Lion Installer USB Drive

Make a Lion Installer DVD

 

[Slinkington]

Thanks!

 

[Tomb01]

I see lots of sites that talk about creating a USB installer for Lion, all of which say 'find the downloaded lion installer'. Just purchased it on the app store, and am downloading it, how do I 'not' install it? Doesn't it simply start installing once it is fully downloaded? Can I interrupt that? Downloading overnight, what if I am asleep? Sigh....

 

[Tomb01]

I see lots of sites that talk about creating a USB installer for Lion, all of which say 'find the downloaded lion installer'. Just purchased it on the app store, and am downloading it, how do I 'not' install it? Doesn't it simply start installing once it is fully downloaded? Can I interrupt that? Downloading overnight, what if I am asleep? Sigh....

Never mind, once it downloaded I simply cancelled the 'continue' phase, and now have the installer disk image to use to create he bootable USB per a number of the web site walkthru's....

 

[alexreich]

If you are running Mac OS 10.6.6 or later on another machine, purchase/redownload the Lion installer and put it in your Applications folder. Grab a spare 4GB USB stick (one that nothing important is on), and download this application:

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/39701/lion-diskmaker

It will create a bootable USB Lion installer, or DVD Installer. Keep in mind that you should not interrupt the application while it is running and creating the bootable USB disk/DVD. You will know it is finished when the pop-up says that the task is completed.