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Lion Clean Install Requires Snow Leopard Disk?

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I remember reading on the Lion features page that it would create a new partition to hold the Lion installer incase of emergency.
 
bwestmoreland said:
For those who have the BETA installed, reboot your machine and hold down the N key, you can then boot from the recovery partition, as long as you have access to the internet you can authenticate to itunes and reinstall from a recovery partition.
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anthonyjr said:
I remember reading on the Lion features page that it would create a new partition to hold the Lion installer incase of emergency.
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That doesn't help you if you are installing a new hard drive.
 
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I think NetBoot will get upgraded to go to the interwebz.
 
So what about when "Cougar" or "Ocelot" (or any other cat name) comes out? Are we all gonna have to go back to Snow Leopard just to install a 90ish% clean system? I can certainly appreciate simplicity, but dumbing it down for everyone while punishing the "power users" is a bad move.

Obviously the actualities remain to be seen, but it's not looking good.
 
I have been wondering about this very thing. My concern is due, in part, to the fact that I've lived overseas, where internet access is slow or nonexistent. In such a case, will you have to re-download the Lion upgrade, or will there be a way to save the install package to a disk? I think that if this report ends up being true, I will do a clean install once, and then run a bootable CCC backup for future restores.
I also wonder what you would do to correct corrupted disks if there is no way to boot to some physical media and run disk utility? surely they have thought of all this, and have provided a reasonable solution, right?
 
Well, I won't be buying Lion then. Clean install or no install. Sorry Apple, you've lost my sale.
 
You won't have to clean install Leopard first. We have known since DP1 that it is possible to burn the installer on a DVD/ flash drive, but Steve obviously won't endorse that solution. And if the said installer doesn't let you clean install Lion, but just update, no problem: use another install DVD (it can be Tiger if you want) to erase the hard drive, then boot off the Lion disk.
 
He did say you "CAN" use the Snow Leopard disk.. He didn't say you couldn't burn a copy from the files you dowloaded and use that.. I'm sure there will be a workaround.
 
I don't see an issue people...
If I use google... If find lots of posts about people creating boot disks... So it IS possible.

Wether Apple will include a tool for this we don't know.. Or maybe they will make an extra hidden partition from where you can boot in the future... Because Apple eagerly wants the people with a broken HDD in the store... right $$

Believe me, This email can say whatever it says. But Apple doesn't want all those people in the store for a reinstall.

Al this logic against one possibly true e-mail. Sry, I'll wait for the release.
 
macmongral said:
Target disk mode solves it all, or make a usb boot stick


there are many ways to skin a cat :eek:


Just wait and see what next month brings before you get your panties in a twist

problems are there to be solved

At this time in place upgrades leave a lot of detritus behind like the app folder in the dock for one , there are lots more
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Yes first we must wait but second, always remember your not a Doctor so you should not be made to figure out how to insert your own catheter a good old days:p. Same here, most people may not have the tech knoledge or want to have to deal with taking time to "skin a cat", I do but a lot of people don't.

A dvd makes life easier for Mac users who are not super users so I am wondering if they will really do it this way long term.:rolleyes:
 
roadbloc said:
Well, I won't be buying Lion then. Clean install or no install. Sorry Apple, you've lost my sale.
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I think I might hold out on purchasing it.
It's weird though cause Apple said that there was a partition with Lion that would allow you to reinstall. But Steve says you need SL first:confused:
 
This is no big deal. If it is the case then Apple will continue selling SL OS and from it you can opt for the Lion OS if you like.

For those who wish to slowly transition to Lion multiple partitions with SL and Lion is an option. And you know Apple has to continue to support SL for some time.
 
I'm sorry but did anyone notice that the person who e-mailed SJ misspelled excited? They wrote it as exited, rather then excited.
C'mon have some respect when you email the great SJ and spell check your sentences.
 
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