Mac Os X Lion Usb Thumb Drive Download

Download Lion from the Mac App Store—but don't install it yet, because of the disappearing installer issue noted above. Find the installer in your Applications folder and right-click on it then.

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The USB thumb drive costs US$69, compared to just US$29 for the download-only option. The 'Recovery Partition' that the OS X Lion download option creates on the Mac's hard drive cannot be used in a troubleshooting situation, so the USB thumb drive will be required for any subsequent issues. This USB thumb drive cannot be modified. How to Make a Lion Bootable USB flash drive shows how to do this for Lion, but is directly applicable to Mountain Lion. Bootable USB Installers for OS X Mavericks, Yosemite, El Capitan, and Sierra First, review this introductory article: Create a bootable installer for macOS. Option 1: Put a full bootable Lion installation on the USB Drive with a recovery partition. What you need: an 8G thumb drive and OS X Lion from the App Store. What you get: A USB stick you can boot off and repair your Lion installation from. Download the Lion installer from Apple App Store. How To Make OSX Lion Bootable USB Flash Drive. Step 1: Download OS X Lion from the Mac App Store. Step 2: Once downloaded, go to the Applications folder and find the copy of Lion you just downloaded. Step 3: Right click on the downloaded file and select “Show Package Contents”. Step 4: Go to “Contents” and jump inside the.

As you might already know, Apple’s Mac OS X Lion is online download upgrade only and OS X Lion in USB thumb drive cost you USD$60 (twice the OS’s price).

Do you know that you can create your own OS X Lion installation DVD or flash drive for FREE, and it is easy to do so?

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In this article, you will learn how to create a bootable OS X Lion installer DVD and thumb drive. Free of charge. All you need is a OS X Lion installer downloaded (don’t install!) from Mac App Store, a blank DVD disc or flash drive (5GB or larger).

Note that if you already upgrade to Lion, the installer has deleted itself. You have to re-download OS X Lion to have the installer again…

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Table of Contents

1. Retrieve OS X Lion disk image

Right-click on the OS X installer and click “Show Package Contents”. Open “Contents” folder, then “SharedSupport”. You will get a file called “InstallESD.dmg”.

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2A. Burn offline OS X Lion installer DVD

If you want to burn a OS X Lion DVD:

  1. Insert blank DVD into your Mac
  2. Now, open “Disk Utility” app and drag the “InstallESD.dmg” file into the left-hand sidebar of Disk Utility.
  3. Select the disk image (.dmg) in the Disk Utility’s sidebar, and click “Burn” button to start burning DVD.

2B. Make offline OS X Lion installer flash drive

It takes more steps to make an OS X Lion thumb drive:

  1. Plug in your thumb drive and select it in the left-hand sidebar in Disk Utility.
  2. Goto “Partition” tab and select “1 Partition” from the “Partition Layout” dropdown menu.
  3. Under “Partition Information”, choose “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)” for “Format:”
  4. Click “Options…” button under the partition table and choose “GUID Partition Table”, so that the thumb drive is bootable.
  5. Click “Apply” button to format your thumb drive (all data on the thumb drive will be erased)
  6. After done formatting, click on the “Restore” tab, and choose the “InstallESD.dmg” file as “Source:” and your flash drive as the “Destination:”.
  7. Click “Restore” button to create your bootable OS X Lion thumb drive.

How to boot into OS X Lion installer DVD or USB thumb drive

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To use the OS X Lion DVD and USB flash drive, you press and hold “Option” key when you hear Mac startup chime at start up. Then you can boot into DVD or flash drive there.

Though a recovery partition will be created when you install OS X Lion, a installation DVD or thunmb drive is good to have for “clean install” or new hard drive. Don’t need to spend time and bandwidth to re-download OS X Lion.

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Yesterday, during Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference, Apple announced they were moving forward with the way they distributed software to their customers. No longer will you be able to buy the latest and greatest software from Apple on DVDs or other media. Starting with OS X Lion, the only way to get new software will be to download and install it through the Mac App store.

Fortunately, it does not appear that Apple has limited our ability to create our own installation media. In fact, it is still very easy to create a USB installation disk for OS X Lion. Below you will find the steps I used to install the developers preview of OS X Lion via a USB disk.

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These steps worked with the developer preview downloads for OS X Lion that was distributed through the Mac App Store to developers. It has not been tested with the retail version of OS X Lion, but we will test this approach as soon as the software is available in its retail form.

How To Create an OS X Lion USB Installation Drive

  1. Download Lion through the App Store
  2. Find the downloaded App package in Finder, right or control click it and select “Show Package Contents”
  3. In the Finder window displaying the package contents select the Contents folder, then the SharedSupport folder. Find the InstallESD.dmg file. You will need this file to create the USB drive.
  4. Plugin your USB Drive, for this effort I used a 8gb USB drive, and open Disk Utility
  5. In Disk Utility, prepare the USB drive to be bootable. Select the drive in Disk Utility and then thePartition Tab.
  6. Under Volume Scheme select 1 Partition and then Options
  7. Select GUID Partition Table and press OK. Apply the changes.
  8. When the USB Drive has been reformatted to a GUID partition select the Restore Tab
  9. For Source, drag and drop the installESD.dmg file into the source location. For Destination drag and drop the newly configured USB drive. Click Restore and Enter in your Password.
  10. Reboot your Mac, holding down Option until the Boot Option screen appears. Select the OS X Lion USB Drive you just created.
  11. Follow the onscreen instructions to install OS X Lion from your USB flash drive

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It is great to see Apple moving more and more towards online software distribution, there still remains instances when consumers would like to install drives from physical media. Especially if one would like to install OS X Lion when not already running Snow Leopard.

The entire process took about 45 minutes for me to install OS X Lion from USB. Let us know in the comments how long it too for you to install.