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Can you copy Lion to a bootable USB drive?
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For anyone who's downloaded a copy from the app store, does the same procedure work to create a bootable USB key?
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Inside the app bundle, in Contents/SharedSupport, is a file called InstallESD.dmg. If you use the Restore tab in Disk Utility to image that onto a USB stick, you get a bootable install disk.
But beware! The Lion installer deletes itself after installing, and once you're booted into Lion, the App Store will just say "Installed" when you try to download it again, so make sure you back up the installer app before you run it, or else you're SOL!
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By the way, if that delete-and-can't-redownload behavior bugs you as much as it does me, let Apple know:
http://bugreport.apple.com
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Can you do a clean install from it?
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Originally Posted by Chongo
Lion Recovery info
OS X Lion: About Lion Recovery
THAT is freaking awesome.
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Originally Posted by CharlesS
Inside the app bundle, in Contents/SharedSupport, is a file called InstallESD.dmg. If you use the Restore tab in Disk Utility to image that onto a USB stick, you get a bootable install disk.
But beware! The Lion installer deletes itself after installing, and once you're booted into Lion, the App Store will just say "Installed" when you try to download it again, so make sure you back up the installer app before you run it, or else you're SOL!
where (and/or how) does one find this file??...
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This is from the link above your post about making a install DVD.
From the Mac OS X Finder, locate the Mac OS X Installation file that was downloaded, right-click, and “Show Package Contents”
Find and open the “SharedSupport” folder and locate a disc image file called “InstallESD.dmg”
Copy “InstallESD.dmg” to your Mac OS X Desktop, this is the Lion disk image and what you’re going to create the bootable DVD from
Now launch Disk Utility (/Applications/Utilities/), pop in a blank DVD, select the “InstallESD.DMG” file, and click on “Burn”
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right, but...WHERE is the installation file? i downloaded, rebooted, and am running 10.7.
if the file is deleted after installing, then i no longer have it, yes?
am confused LOL...
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Originally Posted by JMan09
This is from the link above your post about making a install DVD.
From the Mac OS X Finder, locate the Mac OS X Installation file that was downloaded, right-click, and “Show Package Contents”
Find and open the “SharedSupport” folder and locate a disc image file called “InstallESD.dmg”
Copy “InstallESD.dmg” to your Mac OS X Desktop, this is the Lion disk image and what you’re going to create the bootable DVD from
Now launch Disk Utility (/Applications/Utilities/), pop in a blank DVD, select the “InstallESD.DMG” file, and click on “Burn”
You don't have to copy InstallESD.dmg to the Desktop. You can just drag that straight over to Disk Utility's sidebar and burn it from where it is.
Originally Posted by fisherKing
right, but...WHERE is the installation file? i downloaded, rebooted, and am running 10.7.
if the file is deleted after installing, then i no longer have it, yes?
am confused LOL...
Yes, the installer deletes itself after installing, and then the App Store doesn't let you redownload it when you're booted into Lion. The solution is to wipe the drive, reinstall Snow Leopard, download the Lion installer from there, back up the installer, install Lion, and then restore the installer from your backup.
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Originally Posted by CharlesS
You don't have to copy InstallESD.dmg to the Desktop. You can just drag that straight over to Disk Utility's sidebar and burn it from where it is.
Yes, the installer deletes itself after installing, and then the App Store doesn't let you redownload it when you're booted into Lion. The solution is to wipe the drive, reinstall Snow Leopard, download the Lion installer from there, back up the installer, install Lion, and then restore the installer from your backup.
wipe the drive? hmmm...apple just sold me on a bootable usb drive...
just spend the day installing, configuring, customizing lion, not up for starting over..!
thanx for explaining tho...
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Should have checked this out before rebooting...
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So if I buy a new mini, is there anyway for me to make a physical Lion installer from what I get in the box?
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Gonna try it when I get home tonight. Yay!
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I was just able to upgrade to Lion after reading this thread earlier. And before I clicked continue to install I found the file and am copying it to a flash drive. The file itself is 3.74GB
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Originally Posted by fisherKing
wipe the drive? hmmm...apple just sold me on a bootable usb drive...
just spend the day installing, configuring, customizing lion, not up for starting over..!
thanx for explaining tho...
If you're running Time Machine and didn't do the upgrade right away, there might be a copy of the installer in your backups?
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I just got hit with this too. Thankfully there's another Mac in the house on the same apple ID.
(although I guess I could just as easily install snow leopard to an external drive, update it to include the app store, and download.)
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Interesting...I haven't tried this yet (haven't gotten to doing the upgrade) but this tidbit is included in the Lion Recovery link that was provided above.
To redownload the installer on a computer running OS X Lion, press and hold the Option key while you click the Purchases tab.
Which clearly indicates that the installer can be easily (though maybe not intuitively) downloaded after the upgrade.
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Originally Posted by gradient
If you're running Time Machine and didn't do the upgrade right away, there might be a copy of the installer in your backups?
nope, sigh....i move too fast sometimes...
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Originally Posted by fisherKing
nope, sigh....i move too fast sometimes...
Check out my post right above yours. It could be the golden goose!
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Originally Posted by gradient
Interesting...I haven't tried this yet (haven't gotten to doing the upgrade) but this tidbit is included in the Lion Recovery link that was provided above.
Which clearly indicates that the installer can be easily (though maybe not intuitively) downloaded after the upgrade.
thanks
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Originally Posted by gradient
Check out my post right above yours. It could be the golden goose!
not working here...tried all options with the option key...
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Originally Posted by CharlesS
You don't have to copy InstallESD.dmg to the Desktop. You can just drag that straight over to Disk Utility's sidebar and burn it from where it is.
Yes, the installer deletes itself after installing, and then the App Store doesn't let you redownload it when you're booted into Lion. The solution is to wipe the drive, reinstall Snow Leopard, download the Lion installer from there, back up the installer, install Lion, and then restore the installer from your backup.
If you have the InstallESD disk image archived somewhere, is the install application particularly to have as well? Can't you just use the disk image to reinstall via DVD/USB drive?
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Originally Posted by fisherKing
not working here...tried all options with the option key...
yeah, doesn't work for me either. A separate tip about deleting a folder and changing some manifest.plist values doesn't work for me either, because those things aren't there post-Lion install.
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ah, well. have no regrets about installing lion first thing this morning; by noon, was back to work.
so will wait until other options exist (i.e. apple's usb drive)...
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Are you guys doubly sure that you don't actually have the installer somewhere on your computer? I ask because now that I've upgraded to Lion and read your responses, I went to try it myself and found that it didn't work. I did, though, still have an unneeded copy of it on my desktop. As soon as I deleted it, holding the Option key while clicking on the Purchases tab did indeed turn the greyed-out 'Installed' label back into a beautifully clickable 'Install' button. I cancelled the second download, but it certainly works.
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Originally Posted by gradient
Are you guys doubly sure that you don't actually have the installer somewhere on your computer? I ask because now that I've upgraded to Lion and read your responses, I went to try it myself and found that it didn't work. I did, though, still have an unneeded copy of it on my desktop. As soon as I deleted it, holding the Option key while clicking on the Purchases tab did indeed turn the greyed-out 'Installed' label back into a beautifully clickable 'Install' button. I cancelled the second download, but it certainly works.
nothing i can find on my HD, and the option key DOES NOT work for me in the App Store...
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Originally Posted by fisherKing
nothing i can find on my HD, and the option key DOES NOT work for me in the App Store...
Maybe there's something buggy about the way the installer is being deleted...try emptying your trash?
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Originally Posted by fisherKing
wipe the drive? hmmm...apple just sold me on a bootable usb drive...
just spend the day installing, configuring, customizing lion, not up for starting over..!
thanx for explaining tho...
I don't think you have to wipe your drive if you have a bootable usb drive.
Install Snow Leopard onto the external drive, boot into it, then download the Lion installer. Maybe you have to unmount the internal drive if the App Store says you have it already installed.
Then copy the Lion installer onto the internal drive, boot into Lion, and you can create a bootle Lion onto your external drive the way CharlesS described.
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Originally Posted by fisherKing
nope, sigh....i move too fast sometimes...
Premature-OS-Installation?
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Originally Posted by Eriamjh
Premature-OS-Installation?
(am avoiding making my own jokes here...)
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got it!
from macrumors forum: "click on the name of the Lion app. After you do that you'll be able to buy it again. It tells you the price, but when you login your apple account, it says you already have it and it gives you the option to download it again."
it's cranky, but it works. first i got an error message.
then, i tried again, logged in, and, as above....
EDIT: finished it, booted to it...now have a working install/restore/repair DVD. as mr. burns would say...."excellent".
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