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Need to create a Lion install disk

I am on the side of those who think this is recovery method is absolutely stupid. I want a USB drive (and I'm not paying $68 for it, since I could buy 10 8GB USB flash drives for that amount of cash, and Lion is supposed to be included for us) with the whole installation disk. I travel a lot, and although I've only had to use recovery disks once, it was in a place without internet, so I would be up the creek under this new Apple "innovation."

So, I have a new MBP. Of course, it came with Lion. I cannot figure out a way to download Lion to create a Lion installer. If I go to the App store, it says "installed". I can't do anything there. I don't think Apple saved more than $1 in production costs for a Lion DVD installer, so this is truly annoying.

How can I get the Lion disk image to get the installer onto a flash drive, so that I can save my Mac, just in case? I know how to creat the installer, but I need Lion.

And I'm going to head over to the complaint department to register my annoyance at this. I mean why couldn't they have included a USB flash drive in the brand new box? I actually looked, believe it or not.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Dec 21, 2011 11:30 PM

18 replies

Dec 22, 2011 3:32 PM in response to OrangeMarlin

Sorry if I missed something - have your tried holding the option key while clicking on "Purchased" in the App Store app?

Dec 22, 2011 3:45 PM in response to norbertfromvienna

The OP purchased a mac with Lion already installed and did not purchase it from the App store, so they would not be able to go that route.

Tony T1

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Feb 8, 2012 11:23 AM in response to OrangeMarlin

OrangeMarlin wrote:

Nope. That only recreates the partition that's on my hard drive. You still have to download 3-4GB on the internet. So if you're sitting in a tent uploading photos from a day's shoot, and the Mac blows up, I need to reinstall Lion.

I could clone my Mac to an external drive, but an 8GB drive runs about $5. A 500GB external portable drive, about 15X that.

I assume that you don't care (at that point) in re-installing your data, and that all you want is a OS running.

If that's the case, then consider installing OS X on a USB (8G will work), then boot from the USB, upload your photos, and then when you have access to a fast internet connection, re-install Lion

Need to create a Lion install disk