Problem preparing MacBook for sale

[scrob]

Hi guys

I am currently preparing to sell my 2007 MacBook and I have a problem - the boot disk is OSX Tiger but the MacBook has since been upgraded to Snow Leopard. However I have lost the Snow Leopard upgrade disk

Is there any way to format the computer and start afresh with Snow Leopard if I don't have the disk? I don't want to have to pay for a Snow Leopard disk as I already plan on paying to upgrade it to Lion, and it cannot be upgraded to Lion straight from Tiger afaik.

Am I being thick? Please help!

Rob

 

[scrob]

Ok I think I have a solution, I will make a Lion boot disk on USB and use that to reformat the MacBook.

Will that solve my problem?

 

[iRyno]

Yes. Once you download Lion go to applications and right click the installer. Choose "Show Package Contents". Then navigate to Contents folder then to Shared Support. Look for a file named "InstallESD.dmg". Burn that image and your good.

 

[innocentsheep]

Ok I think I have a solution, I will make a Lion boot disk on USB and use that to reformat the MacBook.

Will that solve my problem?

That's exactly what I did to my Macbook that was running Tiger. Worked perfectly.

 

[lordmac]

I just did the same thing very successfully (formatted a mac I want to sell and installed lion on it) now is there anyway to reinstall the copy of ilife '11 I bought for the computer without creating a user account (I want to leave the mac so it runs the setup assistant and everything for the person I am selling it too)



- Thanks

 

[GenesisJLS]

I just did the same thing very successfully (formatted a mac I want to sell and installed lion on it) now is there anyway to reinstall the copy of ilife '11 I bought for the computer without creating a user account (I want to leave the mac so it runs the setup assistant and everything for the person I am selling it too)



- Thanks

Do as lordmac suggests.

 

[Sonhascome]

do as iryno suggests