Now option-click on ‘purchases’ and ‘installed’ will change to ‘install’ so that you can re-download the installer.įormat your Thumbdrive using a GUID Partition Table, and ‘ Mac OS Extended (Journaled)’, then you can run the Lion installer and install Lion onto the thumb drive. If you have already installed it and it has deleted itself, go back into the App store and click on ‘purchases’ and next to Lion it will say ‘Installed’. DO NOT INSTALL IT ONTO YOUR COMPUTER OR THE INSTALLER WILL DELETE ITSELF. ![]() What you get: A USB stick you can boot off and repair your Lion installation from.ĭownload the Lion installer from Apple App Store. ![]() What you need: an 8G thumb drive and OS X Lion from the App Store. Option 1: Put a full bootable Lion installation on the USB Drive with a recovery partition. ![]() If you buy and install Lion from the App Store it downloads all 3Gigabytes from the App Store, installs Lion, then deletes the installer! So when you go to install it on another machine it needs another 3Gigabyte download! Here’s how to make a re-usable installer. Here are three different ways to put Lion on a USB thumb drive.
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