You only have to do it once, because once Lion is installed, it will put a recovery partition on the hard disk. So you won't need a disc after the initial install.
What happens if your hdd dies? A recovery partition on the drive will be useless.
You only have to do it once, because once Lion is installed, it will put a recovery partition on the hard disk. So you won't need a disc after the initial install.
What happens if your hdd dies? A recovery partition on the drive will be useless.
The dual layer firewall implementation since Leopard comes to mind, for one whereby it ignores the GUI settings many times in favor of command line ones that a normal user doesn't even know exists.
I've found similar shortcomings/issues in other GUI configuration programs from time to time including network printer configuration, SAMBA services (restart from CLI works where GUI on/off usually did nothing) and network sharing thereof (directories and permissions). Permissions can be set by GUI, but it's easier to do it in a shell for multiple files.
In any way? Yeah, none of those problems I just listed have ANYTHING to do with Unix underpinnings.![]()
Hence my comment you can't seem to relate to normal users. I know that 12 years of on/off using Linux desktop operating systems isn't 'much' experience compared to eternal geekdom qualifiers such as yourself, but it's not exactly none either.
It was your reply that made no sense. Nowhere did anyone say they already had the install package at any point. How do you backup something you haven't yet downloaded?
That's not Unix nor part of the SUS. It's not a Unix problem, it's an OS X problem.
None of those are Unix either. They're very much OS X problems.
Nope, they don't. Do you know what Unix is and what the SUS is ? If you said something like the open() syscall not returning EEXIST when passed O_CREAT and O_EXCL, then yes, that would be a Unix problem.
Sounds like you haven't spent quite enough time to be qualified to discuss it though. You don't seem to quite grasp what is and isn't a Unix implementation problem.
Oh, I relate to normal users.
I understand them perfectly. I've dealt with them since the 90s. A little searching around the Internet could do them some good but they prefer to lay cash down to get their stuff repaired for them.
But why are you comparing the Macrumors crowd to normal users ? Normal users don't reinstall their OS.
People who do a notch above normal users. These guys pretend they have "technical" know-how about this stuff, yet their solution to about every obscure error message popping up in the syslog is to do a clean install. Frankly that's just absurd. These are the guys I was pointing out. The "OS reinstallation fixes problems!" crowd that want to do "Clean installs of Lion!". Not. Your. Average. User.
If you're reinstalling Lion, you had the package at any point, or how would you have installed it in the first place ? You don't read much of the posts now do you ? The sub-thread was about reinstalling lion on a failed drive.
Your native language isn't English right ? Because you have a serious lack as far as reading comprehension goes.
Slow connection?
I find this hard to believe that such an innovative company would take such a step backward!
Yes. They should take a step forward. Lion should be distributed on 5.25" floppies.
Yes. They should take a step forward. Lion should be distributed on 5.25" floppies.
Going by the developer beta size of around 3.35GB, roughly 2800 floppies would be required. Hope you brew a pot of coffee before starting that install!
Distributing on both DVD and Download would be a good thing. Those who value convenience would go for the download and those who can't use the download route or do not find the MAS convenient could go for the DVD route.
It's not like downloads is a huge step forward, in the world of software distribution, Apple is barely catching up to the crowd with this "step".
Options, what a concept!
Distributing on both DVD and Download would be a good thing.
See, that makes sense to me; Apple could even charge a premium (say an additional $5/10) for buying a DVD, if that's what people (like me) would prefer.
I can verify that you can boot from the DVD. Just burn the disk image to a DVD using Disk Utility and restart the computer and hold down the option key to boot from the DVD. When the computer boots from the DVD you have all of the same options such as Disk Utility, etc. I formatted my hard drive and installed Lion from scratch.
Would it be possible to verify that the same can be done from a USB flash drive?
Options often retard progress.
Would it be possible to verify that the same can be done from a USB flash drive?
^^I'm hoping that can be done. The SuperDrive in my long-in-the-tooth '07 MBP no longer recognizes blank discs & is dodgy at best w/ burned discs.
I just tried to do that. It may have been my USB drive that was the issue. I was able to restart with it and format my hard drive but halfway through installation it froze and killed my flash drive.
I totally agree. We need a strong leader who decides for us.
Options often retard progress.
it has been pointed out several times that you actually can create a bootable dvd, once you've downloaded lion (at least in the developer previews you can).