Download Lion without installing

I have a 24 and 27 inch iMac.
The 24 inch iMacs drive died so I put a new one in. I do not have the osx disks that came with it, lost miss placed who knows.
My 27 iMac as 10.6.7, I can not upgrade to 10.6.8 due to some work related software that will not work on 10.6.8. I have to stay at 10.6.7 for at least another 6 months.
However I want to install 10.8.x on the iMac 24 inch that as the fresh blank new drive.
So I tried to download Lion on the 27 inch iMac but it won't let me says I need 10.6.8 to upgrade. I don't plain to upgrade plan to download lion and burn the image to dvd so I can boot the 24 inch iMac with it.
How can I download or buy lion on DVD for a blank Mac install.
Want to just download by passing the system check..
help
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I don't believe it, I went through the whole process of cloning drive and attempting to update to mountain lion.
I have a white 24 inch iMac 6.1 2.33 Ghz intel core 2 duo, I purchased it just before the silver ones came out, don't remember when exactly when but its not compatible with Mountain Lion.
I find it very hard to believe that its obsolete so quick, I have the floating lamp iMac, G5 20 inch iMac and looks like this one is now joining them in the basement.

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Hey Guys,
I've got a 2011 mac mini server, it's currently got Windows server 2008 R2 installed on it.
I'd like to run OSX Lion Server as a virtual machine. But I need a .iso (preferably) to be used to install the operating system.
Because I didn't receive any installation discs with the mac, I dont have a copy up front.
What's the easiest way for me to get an .iso of OSX Lion Server without needing to use the app store.
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