Putting Lion dmg in a Time Machine disk

[CodeBreaker]

Hi,

I have an external GPT formatted USB hard disk. It has two partitions, one for Time Machine and the other for data. Can I add another partition and somehow put the Lion installer in it so I can boot and install Lion from it? I have the App Store Lion install App.

This is the output of diskutil list:

/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk2
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         300.0 GB   disk2s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk2s3
   4:                  Apple_HFS Sarcophagus             199.6 GB   disk2s4
/dev/disk3
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Time Machine           *299.7 GB   disk3

 

[CodeBreaker]

Upon further research....

As I have chosen to encrypt my TM backups, the disk has now been taken over by Core Storage. This means I cannot resize/add partitions non-destructively. So I will re-convert it to non Core Storage volume then add another partition and restore it with the Install ESD.

That should keep me busy for a while...