Download lion installer for 2011 mini?

Is there any way to download (and save) the lion instller for a new 2011 mac mini that came with Lion Server pre-installed? I tried using the copy of Lion 10.7.1 that I had already downlaoded from the App store, but it said I could not install it on this machine. I can boot off the recovery partition and re-install it, of course, but then I have to wait for a five- plus hour download to complete every time I want to re-install. Since I am currently using this machine for testing, trying to figure out what will or won't work, I may potentially want to do a clean re-install several more times before I am happy with it. Having to wait for a huge download each time isn't acceptable.
Or was the problem just that I was already running 10.7? Perhaps if I made a boot disk from the installer, it would work?

The only way that I know to do this is to create a netrestore on your server with the mini connected to it (I think it has to be in target disk mode). You will of course neet to enable the Netboot service in Server Admin, then use the wizard from there to create the restore entry. This should only take about an hour or so, I think, and the upside is that you will have it for future use if you need to re-install on the 5,1 mini again. I was in the same boat and was forced to bite the bullet and download using the restore partition on the mini, since I had already erased the main hard drive (I was doing a clean install).
That reminds me: now that I have everything up and running, I should do the same.
Hope this helps.
~Mike

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