one thousand, five hundred, and ninety six... i've got $5 that says the drive would fail long before the 6,384 total writes and reads needed to create and distribute the dmg. oh how far we've come...
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one thousand, five hundred, and ninety six... i've got $5 that says the drive would fail long before the 6,384 total writes and reads needed to create and distribute the dmg. oh how far we've come...
Good day all. Newbie here. I've got Lion installed, but wish to make a bootable USB disk. Problem is, I can't D/L it again from the App Store. Any workaround? Thanks 
Seems that this is the case just for me. The first time I install Lion, it reported installation failure, maybe that's why I still have that dmg file.
Good day all. Newbie here. I've got Lion installed, but wish to make a bootable USB disk. Problem is, I can't D/L it again from the App Store. Any workaround? Thanks
I am sure you already figured this out by now... but if not, all you need to do is open your app store and while holding down the option key select "purchased." The Lion will change from "installed" to install. Click install - it will re-download and you are good to go from there.
Once I burned the DVD, can I delete the Lion download without installing it?
If so; how? Just move the Lion installation app to the trashcan?
If so; how? Just move the Lion installation app to the trashcan?
Re-downloading Lion to make boot disk
It worked for me using Lion. It was awkward though, I had to mess around a bit before getting the exact right combination of simultaneous option key and mouse clicks to make it say "Install" in the Purchases page. At one point it was looking for me to pay the purchase price again so I backed out of that attempt..
There's more discussion of it here
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3191518?start=0&tstart=0
It worked for me using Lion. It was awkward though, I had to mess around a bit before getting the exact right combination of simultaneous option key and mouse clicks to make it say "Install" in the Purchases page. At one point it was looking for me to pay the purchase price again so I backed out of that attempt..
There's more discussion of it here
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3191518?start=0&tstart=0
The instructions are very very simple. Just follow them to the word and there is no reason it shouldn't work.
I tried a number of times to make an OS X boot disk and it wouldn't show up as a startup disk until I created a GUID partition on the USB flash drive.
Hi guys!
I am an American, but I live in Japan. I have iTunes and app store accounts for both America and Japan. I primarily use the US store, but I don't have enough iTunes credit to buy Lion right now.
My Japanese account does though, but I'm a little concerned that downloading a OS from a store that I don't normally use will cause trouble.
If I make a DVD, which I planned to do anyways, will the store I purchased from even matter? Lion doesn't check or anything? Updates too? I imagine that the OS would handle those, right?
My understanding is that you only need the app store log in when you download the installer. Am I right in thinking so?
Thanks!
I am an American, but I live in Japan. I have iTunes and app store accounts for both America and Japan. I primarily use the US store, but I don't have enough iTunes credit to buy Lion right now.
My Japanese account does though, but I'm a little concerned that downloading a OS from a store that I don't normally use will cause trouble.
If I make a DVD, which I planned to do anyways, will the store I purchased from even matter? Lion doesn't check or anything? Updates too? I imagine that the OS would handle those, right?
My understanding is that you only need the app store log in when you download the installer. Am I right in thinking so?
Thanks!
I have a question, based on the 2 installs of Lion I've done. I DL'd Lion then copied the install dmg to an 8 GB USB flash drive and used it to update 2 MBPs (mine and my son's). Both times, after I committed to the install, the screen said "downloading additional components" with a progress bar that took about 5 min to complete; what happens if you're doing a clean install to a blank HDD (meaning the mac is not yet configured with internet access)?
Also, my son's 2011 13" MBP hung on the initial reboot after install but, after watching the spinning ball for about 15 min, I hend down the power button to shut off then restarted and the install seemed to finish fine; this did not happen on my late 2008 15" MBP. Wierd.....
Also, my son's 2011 13" MBP hung on the initial reboot after install but, after watching the spinning ball for about 15 min, I hend down the power button to shut off then restarted and the install seemed to finish fine; this did not happen on my late 2008 15" MBP. Wierd.....
To akaralias:
Why do you suggest making a GUID partition on the flash disk? You can boot from Apple Partition Map as well.
To Macopotamus:
What is a "fresh" install? These terms "clean" and "fresh" are not shown in any Apple installer screen, so be less cryptic and tell us if you did an erase of the target volume or installed over OS 10.6.
To Macopotamus again:
Simply formatting HFS+ isn't a guarantee of booting. You still need either GPT or APM partition scheme. MBR with HFS+ is useless.
To milo:
Does the license agreement say you can use one Lion purchase for several computers? I think this App Store scheme was intended to discourage that.
To MauiBoy:
There is no PPC code in Snow Leopard. That's why it is 7 GB less than Leopard.
To megamanbnmaster:
App packages do not slow the boot time. The startup process does not load the Applications directory into RAM. This is one of many old wives tales about erasing the HDD that can be chucked completely. There is no performance gain at all from erasing the HDD and installing on the empty drive... except in removing Login Items and Fusion, and you could do that yourself if you don't like your Login Items.... or if you don't like Fusion. It seems a really odd way to speed up the system instead of just not installing Fusion in the first place.
How does this boot disc help? If the OS is working well, you don't need a boot disc. If it is not, you can't necessarily fix it by installing OS 10.7 upgrade over a bad system. Also, you haven't mention if this boot disc overcomes the "upgrade" nature of Lion -- that is, the fact that it cannot be installed on an empty drive; you must have OS 10.6.6 already installed. Isn't that the real secret behind the smaller size: it isn't a full-install, just an updater for OS 10.6.6 or later? I'm curious to know if anyone has used the Lion installer on a bare HDD, such as a new one, without first installing OS 10.6.
Why do you suggest making a GUID partition on the flash disk? You can boot from Apple Partition Map as well.
To Macopotamus:
What is a "fresh" install? These terms "clean" and "fresh" are not shown in any Apple installer screen, so be less cryptic and tell us if you did an erase of the target volume or installed over OS 10.6.
To Macopotamus again:
Simply formatting HFS+ isn't a guarantee of booting. You still need either GPT or APM partition scheme. MBR with HFS+ is useless.
To milo:
Does the license agreement say you can use one Lion purchase for several computers? I think this App Store scheme was intended to discourage that.
To MauiBoy:
There is no PPC code in Snow Leopard. That's why it is 7 GB less than Leopard.
To megamanbnmaster:
App packages do not slow the boot time. The startup process does not load the Applications directory into RAM. This is one of many old wives tales about erasing the HDD that can be chucked completely. There is no performance gain at all from erasing the HDD and installing on the empty drive... except in removing Login Items and Fusion, and you could do that yourself if you don't like your Login Items.... or if you don't like Fusion. It seems a really odd way to speed up the system instead of just not installing Fusion in the first place.
How does this boot disc help? If the OS is working well, you don't need a boot disc. If it is not, you can't necessarily fix it by installing OS 10.7 upgrade over a bad system. Also, you haven't mention if this boot disc overcomes the "upgrade" nature of Lion -- that is, the fact that it cannot be installed on an empty drive; you must have OS 10.6.6 already installed. Isn't that the real secret behind the smaller size: it isn't a full-install, just an updater for OS 10.6.6 or later? I'm curious to know if anyone has used the Lion installer on a bare HDD, such as a new one, without first installing OS 10.6.
Dvd
Anyone actually try to install from the DVD they made from the lion installer image? I tried on a laptop so i wouldnt have to dl again, i ran "install Lion" it got about 10 minutes into "downloading additional components" and then said it was unable to download the required items.
Tried it twice. Now im just doing it the store way.
I wonder if this DVD is going to be of any use in the future, in an emergency.
Anyone actually try to install from the DVD they made from the lion installer image? I tried on a laptop so i wouldnt have to dl again, i ran "install Lion" it got about 10 minutes into "downloading additional components" and then said it was unable to download the required items.
Tried it twice. Now im just doing it the store way.
I wonder if this DVD is going to be of any use in the future, in an emergency.
I think simply copying to external drive doesn't make any sense. What well we can do is that we can create bootable disk with OS X Lion so that it can be used for re installing the Lion and also creating bootable OS X lion DVD can be used to boot the Mac in target disk mode.
I thought Mac App Store purchases were tied to Apple ID accounts? If I do this and install it somewhere else will that other computer have my Apple ID account information?
I just followed this procedure, so now I can put the disc I burned into Mac's running Snow Leopard and upgrade them?
The idea of making the DVD is so you can do clean installs of Lion without needing Snow Leopard on it first. Pretty sure it will also do the normal upgrade but I have only done that via the Lion file that I downloaded from the app store.
I'm not exactly sure what clean install means. Is it wiping the hard drive then installing Lion. Then you can either start from scratch or use Time Machine to restore your machine?