I bought genuine apple os x lion off of ebay. it comes as a thumb drive. is that easy to use and install?

my neighbor gave me a macbook 4.1 a1181. it has os x 10.5.6 and wont undate any farther. i purchased os x 10.7 from ebay (genuine apple) and its on a thumb drive. is it easy to install and use? do i have to leave the drive in all the time for my OS to operate?

A MacBook4,1 is a Core 2 Duo processor machine and should be able to run Lion. However, if you have the stock memory, 2 GB, it is not going to run well as Lion will use 1.5 GB of that memory. It would be best to increase to to 4 GB or perhaps 6 GB, the limit of what the machine can use.
To install Lion, restart the machine holding the Option key. When the startup screen shows you the internal drive and the flash drive with Lion, you will select the flash drive to startup. You can then use the Utilities drop down menu to select Install Mac OS X, and select the internal drive to install on. Then let the machine do its thing and install the new operating system.

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Anyone know how to install Lion from a recovery copy? It's made from the copy on my MacBook Pro on a thumb drive.

Are you saying that you copied your system or installer from your laptop onto a thumb drive?
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IF you have the full installer, you need to boot up from another drive (the installer may not be bootable) and then direct it to another Mac.
So where do you want to install it? And exactly what is it that you have on that thumb drive?
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The Guy at the Apple store said it should just install! I hope somebody can help me through this, I shouldn't have to pay another ******* $30 to run something that was supossed to work in the first place!
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Does that mean I will have to re-install all apps? Will I have to do this regardless??
I found this article written before the Apple Lion thumb drive came out and it references the quick but techie way at the bottom of article of altering the file /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist
http://www.macworld.com/article/161087/2011/07/install_lion_over_leopard.html
Will this work?

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Want to erase HD and install Mountain Lion

I have a mid-2009 macbook pro with osx lion. I just downloaded mountain lion and made a boot disk. I'd like to erase HD and install Mountain lion. I wanted to test the boot disk before proceeding, so I put it in, restarted holding "option". The options of selecting the HD, Recovery Drive, or the Boot Disk were presented. I selected the boot disk and nothing happens. I get the pale screen with progress circle in the middle and it goes on and on forever. However when I'm on the desktop, the boot disk opens just fine, and I can install from there. Can anyone help me troubleshoot this? I'd like to erase the HD but I'm afraid the boot disk won't load if I do, and I won't be able to install mountain lion (or anything for that matter).

Chris McCoy wrote:
It's the OS X Mountail Lion.app file. I was told I could create a bootable flashdrive with the InstallESD.dmg file. But I'm guessing that still leaves me with installing from internet.
Thanks for all your help.
Yes, you can use the InstallESD.dmg file from that and create a bootable USB thumb drive which you can boot from and install ML from that thumb drive.
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Chris McCoy wrote:
It's the OS X Mountail Lion.app file. I was told I could create a bootable flashdrive with the InstallESD.dmg file. But I'm guessing that still leaves me with installing from internet.
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I am having some problems with the sleep fucntion and want to consider a re-install of Lion as a way to correct the problem.
I have a MacBook Pro, bought June 2011. I upgraded from Snow Leopard using the Apple Thumb drive.
Pretty much all advice for installing and re-installing Lion refers either to the downloaded version for the App Store or using a recovery file produced by the user after installation.
I am just wanting straighforward guidance on the process for doing a re-install of Lion using the Thumb drive or whatever process is proper.
I have a Time Machine set up with a Time Capsule. Not really sure if this could end up causing me more troubles using the stroed data/files. It may be those which are causing the troubles.
If necessary,I am fully prepared to use an external drive to capture my files (photos, music and iWork stuff) and then use these as I need to for restoring data.
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I bought genuine apple os x lion off of ebay. it comes as a thumb drive. is that easy to use and install?

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