Installing Lion 10.7

iDroid84 said:
Cheers. It has to be at the setup screen though. A clone of the hard drive once it has downloaded the Internet Recovery setup files.
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So is this during booting into the install screen, or when booting into OS X for the very first time and it's asking you to enter in all your information?
 
Johnny|lucidcomposure said:
If thats what you want you might aswel burn the lion installer to a usb stick or something. It'll clean install in 5 mins. Prob on a par with a clone copy process!!
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Doesn't work with he new MBA's as there is no .dmg available yet. New MBA users can't use the app store or developer version.

Kemik said:
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/18/make-an-os-x-lion-boot-disc/
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Doesn't work, as above.

Skyboat said:
So is this during booting into the install screen, or when booting into OS X for the very first time and it's asking you to enter in all your information?
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When booting into OS X for the very first time.
 
All the times I've installed OS X I've always been given an option as to what disk I want to install it to *shrug*
 
Target Disk Mode. Need a FireWire port on another machine though.

EDIT: Just noticed the MBAs don't have them. Lewl. Guess you're stuffed then. Though to be honest I can't see what you'd be doing to stuff up OS X unless you're doing something monumentally stupid.
 
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To be honest if you want it at the point of setup before you enter your own personal information I guess its not something you want it for regarding yourself.

I personally can't see why using CCC after your first login isn't acceptable. or even the chap above with the terminal commands.
 
Skyboat said:
Target Disk Mode. Need a FireWire port on another machine though.

EDIT: Just noticed the MBAs don't have them. Lewl. Guess you're stuffed then. Though to be honest I can't see what you'd be doing to stuff up OS X unless you're doing something monumentally stupid.
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Not doing anything stupid but it's a peace of mind knowing the system can be restored offline without needing the Internet to be able to restore the system. I have already added some feedback to apple but see what they say.


Johnny|lucidcomposure said:
To be honest if you want it at the point of setup before you enter your own personal information I guess its not something you want it for regarding yourself.

I personally can't see why using CCC after your first login isn't acceptable. or even the chap above with the terminal commands.
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I suppose I could do it just after setup, It won't make that much a difference.
 
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I just realised something, I think it might work. Once I have restored the system (which I'm doing now using the OTA method [new]) just before the OS X wizard I can boot into disk utilities and create an Image .DMG of the SSD. It might work! I never knew you can create images from that method. Will give that a go.

EDIT: Anyone who is interested this seems to work fine. Don't need to use the Internet Recovery to restore my MBA now. :)
 
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