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seong

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I was wondering if I should go buy a USB 8GB to make a bootable Lion Installer or burn it on the DVD.
I did burn it on the DVD, but this thing took forever to load. I was wondering if 8GB USB will be faster.
Another question is, will the brands matter? There are 8GB USBs on sale near where I live. Will those cheap USBs die fast, or just slower?

Thanks in advance.
 
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I was wondering if I should go buy a USB 8GB to make a bootable Lion Installer or burn it on the DVD.
I did burn it on the DVD, but this thing took forever to load. I was wondering if 8GB USB will be faster.
Another question is, will the brands matter? There are 8GB USBs on sale near where I live. Will those cheap USBs die fast, or just slower?

Thanks in advance.


i have experienced the same thing...the DVD takes forever to load..and i ended up use the SL disk that came with my macbook and upgrade to lion through app store with my new hard drive.....don't know why the DVD doesnt work.... and havent tryout the flash drive boot method yet
 
I don't see any reason to, unless there's a possibility you would be stuck somewhere, without Internet, and need to reinstall Lion right away.
 
I don't see any reason to, unless there's a possibility you would be stuck somewhere, without Internet, and need to reinstall Lion right away.

It'll come in handy someday. Plus, if you were to install Lion OS on the USB itself, then you'll be able to boot off from your work with any Mac that's compatible with Lion.
 
I've got a new question for you guys.....
What GB size USB/SD Card would you recommend to install Lion OS on it? 8? 16?
 
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seong said:
I've got a new question for you guys.....
What GB size USB/SD Card would you recommend to install Lion OS on it? 8? 16?

A USB drive large enough to hold the Lion install. So 8GB would be the smallest that would work.
 
What if I use the SD Card? Seems like very sleeeeeeek :)
I really don't like the idea of having a USB sticking out. Since computers I deal with are 2010 Mac Minis, I think the SD Card will do well. Will Class 10 SD Cards work?

Oh, and one more thing to note!
My reason to buy the 16GB SD Card Class 10 to install Lion on it so that I can boot from, is because, remember that when you install Lion it makes a small partition for disk utility, reinstalling Lion, etc? I think, if I install Lion on a 16GB SD Card, I'll be able to have BOTH the installer and Lion itself on it. Any thoughts?
 
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What if I use the SD Card? Seems like very sleeeeeeek :)
I really don't like the idea of having a USB sticking out. Since computers I deal with are 2010 Mac Minis, I think the SD Card will do well. Will Class 10 SD Cards work?

Oh, and one more thing to note!
My reason to buy the 16GB SD Card Class 10 to install Lion on it so that I can boot from, is because, remember that when you install Lion it makes a small partition for disk utility, reinstalling Lion, etc? I think, if I install Lion on a 16GB SD Card, I'll be able to have BOTH the installer and Lion itself on it. Any thoughts?

I don't have both the installer and booting on my Jump Drive. I do however have a Bootable 10.7 on a 16gig Jump Drive.. It really that slow considering how slow a jump drive is compared to a hard drive.


Hugh
 
I don't have both the installer and booting on my Jump Drive. I do however have a Bootable 10.7 on a 16gig Jump Drive.. It really that slow considering how slow a jump drive is compared to a hard drive.


Hugh

I've been wondering around Youtube, trying to find someone running Lion, or Snow Leopard, from a SD Card, and here it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38aJjHAtNnY&feature=related
It seems to run fine for me :)
 
I've been wondering around Youtube, trying to find someone running Lion, or Snow Leopard, from a SD Card, and here it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38aJjHAtNnY&feature=related
It seems to run fine for me :)

I didn't type out the message right. It should say that I am NOT having any trouble running 10.7 from the Jump Drive. It isn't really slow, I thought it might because the speed of the Jump Drive. But it's actually running good, and if I could understand why it keeps indexing my hard drive and the Jump Drive.

Hugh

That will teach me not to post when I'm up late! LOL
 
I've got Lion installed on a 8Gb USB drive for recovery and diagnostic purposes, but it's not that much faster than the DVD. Does anyone know if installing Lion on a SD card would be significantly faster? Where can I find the speed specs for both ports?

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I've got Lion installed on a 8Gb USB drive for recovery and diagnostic purposes, but it's not that much faster than the DVD. Does anyone know if installing Lion on a SD card would be significantly faster? Where can I find the speed specs for both ports?
It looks like the SD port runs into the USB bus (redundant :p) on the 2009 model (480 Mbit/s), so it's six of one...

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3553#4

http://support.apple.com/kb/SP544
 
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