Installing OSX Lion on MacBook Air

Rock,

Exactly what are you trying to do? Format the internal drive? I don't have a MacBook Air but I'm assuming that you'd have to boot from something like a USB Lion Install SD, go to Disk Utility, re-init the drive and install Lion from there. Can you be a little bit more specific on what you're trying to accomplish?

Regards,

Clinton

Just start the downloaded Lion file (in the Applications folder) on your MBA, It will install Lion.

Start Activity Monitor: click the DiskUsage button at the bottom: how much space do you have free?

Did you download Lion from the Appstore to this MBA directly?

That is not the problem then. Did you buy and download Lion on this MBA ??

I like to ask another question:

Shutdown the MBA, then start the MBA while holding the Alt(Option) key do you see more than one disk to start from?

Check with your company's IT department. I assume this is your personal MBA and not the company's that you work for?

You can have a password on the Firmware or the OS, you have one on the firmware, good, but your disk is security guarded (probably encrypted), and then you can not install an OS without doing something special: it would be too easy when anybody could overwrite a security guarded disk.

I do not know how to do it, you better ask your IT manager.

rockville wrote:

When I started the downloaded Lion file, it asked me "What hard drive do you want to install Lion on?". There is only one drive, but I cannot select it, (it was greyed out) because of his disk cannot be used to start up your computer". I did the exact same on my desktop machine with no problem. Thanks

Rock,

If you have a spare USB flash drive around you can make a copy of the Lion install on your desktop machine and use it to boot your MacBook Air. See the article here.

Hope this will help,

Clinton

Oh, you can also install on your drive from the flash drive, too.

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