Clean install lion when already on Lion?

How do I clean install lion when i'm already on lion?

Your best bet would be to create a Lion Boot Disc which is actually quite easy with the OS X Lion installer and Disk Utility. The problem is that since your are already running Lion, I don't think it will allow you to re-download it to make the boot disc. One option would be to clean install Snow Leopard, download the OS X Lion installer from the Mac App Store and make the boot disc. It would be easier to use another computer that already has Snow Leopard installed and fully updated to make the boot disc. All you would have to do is sign into the App Store on the other computer and Lion should be under purchased, just don't forget to log out if the other computer is not your own. Regardless, here are the instructions on making a Lion Boot Disc:
Performing a clean install of Lion is easy once you create a Lion Boot Disc. How do I create a Lion Boot Disc, you ask? That's easy too! Just follow these instructions: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/18/make-an-os-x-lion-boot-disc/
The fact is that the Lion installer is packaged around a bootable disk image that can easily be burned to a standard 4.7GB DVD. With the boot disk you can run disk utility to erase your Mac, and then clean install just like you could with every other version of Mac OS X. Just don't forget to backup all your data!!!

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6. When done, you should have a fresh install of ML on your new internal and a bootable SL on your external as a backup. If you decide that you want to go back to SL, you can just erase the internal and clone the external back to the internal.
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Another option: Since you're replacing the intrenal with a 500 Gig drive, you could partition it to two 250 Gig partitions. Put ML on one and SL on the other, i.e.,

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why do we have to buy mountain lion when we bought lion? Others who didn't purchase lion don't have to pay for it to move to mountain lion.

As far as I know the only people not having to pay for Mountain Lion are the ones that have purchased a apple computer after the 4th of june or something. These people get a free upgrade. All others will have to pay for a copy of Mountian Lion.
Do you maybe have a source, which states that others don't have to pay for it, where people that have bought Lion do have to pay?
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   Could someone help me with instructions for doing a clean install for Could someone help me with instructions for doing a clean install for an early 2009 iMac 20" with Mountain Lion 10.8.4 ?
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I was a support engineer for HP.
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How do you do a clean install of adobe air for Lion

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How do I do a clean install of Mountain Lion?

I already have Mac OS X Mountain Lion on my MacBook Pro A1126, but how can I do a clean install on it? Do I have to buy a installation disc or from Mac App Store?
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I differentiate between a 'clean' installation and a 'fresh' installation by this meaning: a 'clean' installation means that you're going to erase the boot drive and 'cleanly' install everything, including OS X anew, whereas, for me, a 'fresh' installation means only that you're NOT going to erase the entire drive, but only install a 'fresh' version of OS X.
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I cannot Clean Install Lion.

I had lion installed (all updates) and I had to reinstall because I was having problems with speed and stability of the system. Now I cannot install it neither from the Recovery HD partition nor the usb and the dvd disk that I burned from the InstallerESD.dmg that I found on the internet that works as a media for a clean install. When I use the DVD version that I burned and before I choose anything for the installation process, just after the loader finishes loading, I get an error message telling me that Installation failed, try to reinstall. (duh! that's what im trying to do anyway!). With the usb hd that I mounted the .dmg after I startup my system with the opt key pressed and after choosing the USB disk to boot, I get a "forbidden sign", Circle with a diagonal line in the middle, just where the apple logo was and the system hangs there. The computer is an iMac 21,5'' with 16GB Ram, May 2011 model.
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Found the answer elsewhere.
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