Installing Lion from disc

Marky · 7 Feb 2012 at 16:19

Hey all,

I just bought an SSD and couldn't find my original snow leopard discs, so I got Lion on a disc by burning the dmg from the app store.

However, once I turn my mac on and hold C to boot from disc, I get a flashing folder show with a question mark in the middle.

Any idea how I can install lion onto my SSD?

I've tried holding the options key and selecting the disc. And before using a disc I tried to use recovery hd and install lion via the net but it doesn't go any further than "Loading Installation Information..."

uniQ · 7 Feb 2012 at 16:23

How exactly did you burn it?

Marky · 7 Feb 2012 at 16:29

uniQ said:
How exactly did you burn it?

I re-downloaded Lion, opened the contents and then burnt the dmg to DVD using Disc utility.

I've checked disc utility in Recovery and the disc says its the Lion DVD - so as far as I know it's burnt it right

Donk · 7 Feb 2012 at 18:15

Sounds like it hasn't burnt properly. When I did my install I did it with a USB pen drive. First couple of tries didn't work - I got the same as you. Tried a different pen drive and it worked fine.

Marky · 7 Feb 2012 at 18:52

Hmm bizarre... That does sound about right though...

Fortunately, whilst I was waiting for some assistance, I tried Recovery mode again and it started installing it via the net

So it all ended up okay eventually

Another fantastic feature from OSX - Installing an OS over the net - Fantastic

uniQ · 7 Feb 2012 at 18:57

You have to do it in a certain way to make it bootable. Need to Google it as I can't remember the exact process of the top of my head but it took me a couple of tries before I had a working bootable backup of Lion

Marky · 7 Feb 2012 at 19:12

uniQ said:
You have to do it in a certain way to make it bootable. Need to Google it as I can't remember the exact process of the top of my head but it took me a couple of tries before I had a working bootable backup of Lion

Ahh that would explain it. I literally just selected it and clicked burn

Roverno · 9 Feb 2012 at 22:39

Just browsing, and im going to be replacing my 500GB HDD with a 256 V100 over the weekend. Just wondering how to get lion on a pen drive, and how big is osx lion?

Assuming best thing to do would be backup to time machine, then swap hard drive, install lion, then retore from time machine?

Marky · 9 Feb 2012 at 23:19

As far as I know... You could install the new hard drive, and then boot into recovery mode. Then in the menu you can restore your backup from the time machine.