Lion Clean Install Requires Snow Leopard Disk?

[RawKurd]

So what do you guys use clean install for anyways again? Who buys used macs anyway

 

[InuNacho]

Who buys used macs anyway

Go on ebay and type in "Macbook Air" and look at the completed listings.

 

[clouty]

It looks like, as a computoid ignoramus, I made the right call last month, upgrading to SL. What's happening with Apple? They risk loosing their USP.

 

[Chairman Plow]

I think folks are going overboard. It would seem that the only reason Snow Leopard is a requirement, is that you need the Mac App Store (only accessible with SL) in order to GET Lion. Once you HAVE it, I don't see why a bootable partition can't be made on an external drive. I'll test this myself for confirmation.

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Success. (Pics are in reverse order..... sorry.. )

 

[beginnersview]

I think folks are going overboard. It would seem that the only reason Snow Leopard is a requirement, is that you need the Mac App Store (only accessible with SL) in order to GET Lion. Once you HAVE it, I don't see why a bootable partition can't be made on an external drive. I'll test this myself for confirmation.
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Success. (Pics are in reverse order..... sorry.. )

Thanks, Chairman Plow, for the experimentation! -- now we are getting somewhere with some facts.

Could you let us know a few details about your setup. Based on your post, I assume you took the Lion download, restored the dmg to a external drive clean/empty partition, then booted from it, to install Lion.
Onto what machine (and state) did you install, that is was it over a Leo or older installation, and/or did you use the Disk Utility (your first screen picture) to format the target Mac internal HD drive as a first step.

Which I guess if it installs onto a formatted empty HD, would also pretty much confirm that it'll install onto any Mac that meets Apple Lion requirements, regardless of pre-exisiting (or non-existing) OS version.

(sorry if you posted more details earlier in the thread and I missed them. this thread has gotten entries so off-topic and emotionally-charged that it has become tiresome to read... )

 

[Chairman Plow]

Thanks, Chairman Plow, for the experimentation! -- now we are getting somewhere with some facts.

Could you let us know a few details about your setup. Based on your post, I assume you took the Lion download, restored the dmg to a external drive clean/empty partition, then booted from it, to install Lion.
Onto what machine (and state) did you install, that is was it over a Leo or older installation, and/or did you use the Disk Utility (your first screen picture) to format the target Mac internal HD drive as a first step.

Which I guess if it installs onto a formatted empty HD, would also pretty much confirm that it'll install onto any Mac that meets Apple Lion requirements, regardless of pre-exisiting (or non-existing) OS version.

(sorry if you posted more details earlier in the thread and I missed them. this thread has gotten entries so off-topic and emotionally-charged that it has become tiresome to read... )

I did indeed restore the Lion dmg to a clean partition on an external USB drive. After booting from it, I used Disk Utility to erase the original system HD (Lion over SL), then continued with my installation. The install was pretty painless.

My Mac is a 13" MacBook Pro, 2.3GHz Core i5, 320 GB HD, 4GB RAM, Thunderbolt model. Hope this helped.

 

[beginnersview]

I did indeed restore the Lion dmg to a clean partition on an external USB drive. After booting from it, I used Disk Utility to erase the original system HD (Lion over SL), then continued with my installation. The install was pretty painless.

My Mac is a 13" MacBook Pro, 2.3GHz Core i5, 320 GB HD, 4GB RAM, Thunderbolt model. Hope this helped.

Great!
I will keep this info, your experience, in mind when the official release rolls out to us.

 

[harryisda]

Well the GM seed lets you create a bootable dvd. Just browse contents of the install app and create a dvd from the installesd.dmg file.

Everyone can calm down a bit.