Leopard Time Machine onto Lion?

Hi,
I'm not upgrading to Lion. Leopard is fine for me on current machine, but I do use Time Machine just in case and ready for one day upgrade. My questions are these -
1) will I be able to boot from Leopard-origin Time Machine into new Lion computer? and
2) do I need to have latest Leopard (10.6.8 - I'm currently on 10.6.5) installed in order to boot from TM disk to Lion?
- Thanks all

The Time Machine disk is not a boot disk.
To download the LIon installer you will need Snow Leopard with 10.6.8 in order to access MAS.
If you download and install over SL, using the computer, your data is preserved but with some changes to how it is stored. (ie you cannot just copy it back to SL later).
The alternative is to clone your SL onto an external disk, boot into the clone (hold down the Option key during the boot), download the installer onto the clone and make a copy of the folder (the original gets deleted after the install).
Then you can use the DIsk Utility on the clone to wipe the computer disk and check it out, re-partition etc, before installing Lion to it from the clone.
In this case, the Migration Assistant can take your data from either the TM or the clone. (note that it refers to the TM as "MacIntosh HD" which is a bit confusing)
The advantage of the clone is that it is a bootable backup and if things go wrong you can either revert to SL or re-install Lion afresh.

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Allamistakeo wrote:
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