How do I make a boot CD for Lion?

I just bought my kids MacBook Pros with Lion pre-installed. It came with no resotre disk- what if they crash? How do I make a bootable 'recovery disk' without having to buy another copy of Lion from the App store?
I found this link on Google-
http://www.ehow.com/video_4978308_create-mac-startup-disk.html
but soemthing doesn't make sense about this method- wouldn't the diosk image you were trying to burn end being way bigger than a DVD?

Macs with pre-installed OS X Lion don't come with physical media. You have a recovery partition on your internal hard disk on your mac. If you want to reinstall OS X, hold down CMD + R when you hear the startup sound.
If you want to, you can buy an OS X Lion USB Thumb drive here: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD256Z/A ($69.00)
You can also copy the recovery hd on an USB drive with this tool: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433

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I have a fatal disk error that required a full rebuild (so says disk utility) but how to obtain as there was no option to create at upgrade time and I can not see any other method. SO how do you do it?

Macs with pre-installed OS X Lion don't come with physical media. You have a recovery partition on your internal hard disk on your mac. If you want to reinstall OS X, hold down CMD + R when you hear the startup sound.
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What do I need to make a boot drive for my iMac in case the internal drive fails? About how much memory is required (I'm running Snow Leopard.) Or, can I run it off the disk that came with my machine?

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Thank you... I will take your advice and relax...
OK will do.
As you can tell, I totally disagree with apple on this.... It should be a DEFAULT that the ability to make a DVD start up disc is always there... not the other way around.
I have spent hours on this upgrade... upgrading the Snow Leopard, upgrading to Lion, Installing new hardware, re-installing new hardware, re-installing the old hardware...
Some people, like myself, have the ability to DIY, but I don't have the incredible highly detailed inside knowledge that I apparently have to possess...
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I just purchased a new iMac equipped with a bare bones 1TB SATA hard drive. I want to replace that disk with a 1TB SSD from Crucial (less than 1/2 of the cost of purchasing the iMac with the SSD). I have a Time machine backup of the iMac on a Time Machine/Airport device; how do I make a boot disk that can get the OS up and running, and able to restore the backup from the Time Machine?
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tdarst wrote:
I had not given the warranty issue any prior thought; thanks for pointing that out. Is there a way around the warranty issue; such as a "factory authorized" way to install it, that is feasible?
Thanks for the quick response...
TD
You can take it an AASP to have the install done however you probably would be better off returning the machine (assuming it was bought directly from Apple and is less than 14 days old) and buy the configuration you want. Even if an AASP does install the SSD there is no guarantee Apple will honor the warranty, it's 100% at their discretion.

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Hi, Richk...
OMG!! I had no idea in the world that I could do that.. Yes, indeed, that sure would be a solution. I'm going to do exactly that and buy a box of floppy disks right away.
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I just can't thank you enough. Please give yourself a BIG hug for me..
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