![]() ![]() ![]() Lion is expected to launch on the Mac App Store this week. You can now install Lion on whatever machines you like, just as if you'd purchased the install disc from your local Apple Store. Once it's finished, you'll have a shiny new Lion install DVD. Right-click the USB flash drive and select the Restore with Disk Image option from the left pane. Select 'InstallESD.dmg' from the Desktop, insert a blank 4.7GB DVD and wait. Click the Yes button to format the drive on the warning message. Head to the Go menu in the Finder and select 'Utilities'. You should see a little green plus icon if you did it right. Copy 'InstallESD.dmg' to the Desktop by clicking and dragging it while holding down the Option-key. Inside the 'Contents' folder, there is a 'SharedSupport' folder. Locate the OS X Lion installer and right-click on it. Once Lion is released, purchase and download it from the Mac App Store. ![]() Here's how to do it.Īs posted by Egg Freckles, this method should work in the final retail release of Lion: By burning a disc, users can download Lion only once, and install it easily on all their Macs. Apple has suggested that Mac owners come into Apple Retail Stores and download Lion on the store Internet connection - useful for some, but some people live hours from the nearest Apple Store. By burning your own Lion disc, you can painlessly do clean installs on all your machines.Īnother reason to have a physical install disc is if you have Macs in an area with poor or no Internet. That is a pain in the neck, to say the least. The process still works for the Golden Master version of Lion and is a pretty straightforward process for Mac users who are comfortable making their way around the Finder.Īn email from Steve Jobs suggested the only way to perform a completely clean install of Lion was to first install Snow Leopard, then install Lion on top of that. Lion may be the first release of the Mac OS to be delivered as a digital download, but there has been a circulating method to burn the Lion download onto a bootable DVD. ![]()
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