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Creating a Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Bootable Flash Drive

Posted by timothy on from the no-you-probably-can't-put-it-on-your-netbook dept.

WankerWeasel writes "With the release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion this month, Apple will no longer offer a bootable installer DVD and is making 10.7 Lion available only through the App Store. This guide provides quick instructions on how to use the OS X 10.7 Lion installer to create a bootable flash drive (instructions for making a bootable DVD are also included on the blog)."

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  1. Pure BS and FUD by javab0y · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apple knows they cannot allow a non-bootable OS. If your drive crashes, WTF are you going to do? Anyways... lets get to the real deal. The downloadable version of Mac OS X lion has a bootable DMG in the Contents/Shared Resources directory.Its called InstallESD.dmg. Simply open DiskUtility and burn that to DVD, then you have a bootable disk.

  2. Re:So how do you install a new hard drive? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is one of the problems with owning a Mac. Everyone wants to see them fall.

    So when one site states (through a mistake of their own making) that you cannot replace an iMac's hard drive with anything but an Apple-supplied drive, it goes viral, everyone who doesn't own a Mac (and some Mac users) want to believe it SO DAMNED HARD that it becomes repeated as truth, modified, passed on, and changed into various forms of APPLE ARE DOING THIS INSANE THING OMG.

    Hint as to the truth: I replaced my brand new two week old 27" iMac's 1TB WD hard drive with a 3TB Seagate, and it didn't make the thermal sensors go crazy, it didn't refuse to boot, it didn't run at half speed, and it certainly didn't send DRM monkeys flying to Apple to report me. I closed up the iMac, re-installed the OS, and went on with my business as normal... then I had just about every Mac owner who hadn't done it themselves ask how I got around Apple's HD restrictions.

    Lies last a long time when they're popular.