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Hi all, I downloaded Lion today and installed it straight away, then came across an article where you can make a bootable USB backup of Lion. to do this you need the installESD.dmg but apple deletes this file after lion is installed, is 2nd D/L allowed from app store or can anyone point me to a location where I can get it
Scion 🙂
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)
The optin key is the one that says ALT on it.
If you're in a pinch I guess you could use the image contained in the Recovery partition to install.
To mount the recovery partition do :
Mac-mini:~ tyr$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *320.1 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS MiniHD 305.4 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data WINDOWS 11.4 GB disk0s4
Mac-mini:~ tyr$ diskutil mount /dev/disk0s3
Volume Recovery HD on /dev/disk0s3 mounted
The image is called "BaseSystem.dmg", and the image itself contains a Lion installer :
Mac-mini:~ tyr$ ls -l "/Volumes/Recovery HD/com.apple.recovery.boot"
total 930040
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root admin 1876 Jun 30 08:55 BaseSystem.chunklist
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root admin 451307798 Jun 30 08:47 BaseSystem.dmg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2245 Jun 16 03:06 PlatformSupport.plist
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 475 Jun 30 05:42 SystemVersion.plist
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 858800 Jun 30 08:04 boot.efi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 361 Jul 21 10:14 com.apple.Boot.plist
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 23992189 Jun 30 07:41 kernelcache
Mac-mini:~ tyr$ hdiutil attach "/Volumes/Recovery HD/com.apple.recovery.boot/BaseSystem.dmg"
Checksumming Driver Descriptor Map (DDM : 0)…
Driver Descriptor Map (DDM : 0): verified CRC32 $A505B8BE
Checksumming (Apple_Free : 1)…
(Apple_Free : 1): verified CRC32 $00000000
Checksumming Apple (Apple_partition_map : 2)…
Apple (Apple_partition_map : 2): verified CRC32 $B0720C43
Checksumming Macintosh (Apple_Driver_ATAPI : 3)…
Macintosh (Apple_Driver_ATAPI : 3): verified CRC32 $F1E8BA9E
Checksumming (Apple_Free : 4)…
(Apple_Free : 4): verified CRC32 $00000000
Checksumming disk image (Apple_HFS : 5)…
................................................................................ .................................................
disk image (Apple_HFS : 5): verified CRC32 $973623CF
Checksumming (Apple_Free : 6)…
(Apple_Free : 6): verified CRC32 $00000000
verified CRC32 $35F3BC78
/dev/disk3 Apple_partition_scheme
/dev/disk3s1 Apple_partition_map
/dev/disk3s2 Apple_Driver_ATAPI
/dev/disk3s3 Apple_HFS /Volumes/Mac OS X Base System
Mac-mini:~ tyr$ ls -l "/volumes/Mac OS X Base System"
total 24
drwxrwxr-x+ 5 tyr staff 170 Jun 30 07:38 Applications
drwxr-xr-x 3 tyr staff 102 Jun 30 04:24 Install Mac OS X Lion.app
drwxr-xr-x+ 15 tyr staff 510 Jun 30 07:38 Library
drwxr-xr-x+ 4 tyr staff 136 Jun 30 07:21 System
drwxrwxrwt 2 tyr staff 68 Jun 21 08:31 Volumes
drwxr-xr-x 39 tyr staff 1326 Jun 30 07:41 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 tyr staff 68 Jun 18 21:44 dev
lrwxr-xr-x 1 tyr staff 11 Jun 30 07:38 etc -> private/etc
drwxr-xr-x 5 tyr staff 170 Jun 30 07:38 private
drwxr-xr-x 61 tyr staff 2074 Jun 30 07:41 sbin
lrwxr-xr-x 1 tyr staff 11 Jun 30 07:38 tmp -> private/tmp
drwxr-xr-x 8 tyr staff 272 Jun 30 07:24 usr
lrwxr-xr-x 1 tyr staff 11 Jun 30 07:38 var -> private/var
Pressing Option while attempting to redown OS X Lion doesn't seem to work. It doesn't say Install on Lion systems is says Installed (Past Tense) therefore Apple will not let you redownload the installer.
I also took a trip up to my local Apple Store fortunatly only 2mi away from me. I was hoping they would simply give me a copy of the installer on my flash drive. They will not release it and told me to make an appointment with the Genius Bar and bring in my Mac in order to get another copy. I'm hoping Apple will fix this redownloading problem so I don't have to do that.
Finally got this sorted myself while waiting on apple to get back to me, open app store and click on purchased then click lion to take you to the lion page, hold the option key and click the actual picture of the lion which is above the installed button and the button will change to install and you can download it again, worked for me.
This seems to be making some progress.
I'm getting an App Store Error Says it cannot complete the request at this time. Try again Later (1)
Perhaps I can try again later and it might work.
I have done the above suggestions. I see the Button change when I hold the Option key. However, when I press the "install" button, I'm get an "error during download: 500 Internal Server Error." Then when I try again, it repeats message. Any thoughts?
**** OK UPDATE: I went into the store. Logged out. Tried downloading lion again. It brought up the Log into the Store fields. I did. I saw the Install button on Lion. I pressed it. Got the SAME error message. Started to get frustrated. Brought up my billing information. Verified it. thougtht about changing it. Didn't. Then I went back to the App Store. Pressed the "Install" button. AND WITHOUT an explanation or reason, I saw the lion app drop down to the dock and begin to download. So the Mac Gods have saved my day again and I won't be spending hours on the phone with Apple to understand why it wasn't working. Thankfully it did! Good Luck everyone.
Message was edited by: AfricaJack
that happened me too earlier, I just signed out of the app store then signed back in and it worked, but don't ask me how 🙂
Got my copy downloading right now. Unfortunatly it's inside of the LaunchPad. Does anyone know how to move icons in and out of that mode?
My LaunchPad Icon is missing others may have this issue as well if you are running the Windows Home Server Connector software.
open finder and click applications on the left and you'll see a list of files the one called 'install os x lion'
Hi
Open the Mac App Store. Then hold down the option key whilst clicking on purchased, keep it help down until Install shows up. Then re download.
Happy Days!
Does not work for me.
I've tried every combination of holding option down in the Purchased areas as well as the product page. Nothing.
I'm going to phone Apple tomorrow and see what's up.
Man, I've been opt-clicking every lion's head I come across on the store. Nothing! The last time I talked to Apple they were kind of not knowledgable on this. I feel I got the brush-off on it. Unusual for Apple, but it did happen.
Next time, I'll make sure I ask again and pass along any info.
I purchased iMac running Lion, it didn't come with OS DvD, I went to App Store and downloaded 'InstallESD.dmg' by using method mentioned above(holding option key/download).
My questions is Apple billed my $29.99+tax, it suppose to be like that?
Why it's not free download as I already purchased Lion with iMac.
thanks,
bill
Were you logged into the App store under the same Apple ID? If so, they I would contact support via the link on the Apple support site right away and I'm sure they will correct this.
If you weren't, contact them anyway and tell them you were in advertantly logged in under a different ID, and they should credit you.
2nd download of lion??
