Mac os x lion thumb drive install

I have a MacBook and my dad has an iMac and we would like to go on lion but we have 1mb a minute of download so we were looking at the mac os x lion thumb drive which looks like I can install lion on my mac without downloading lion from the mac app store and if so how many licences does it have on it.

gek5 wrote:
There is no disk utility on the thumb drive.the problem is that i cant open anything on the thumb drive.
Did you read my post?
("are you booting from the USB? (Hold the option key on Boot")

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Mac OS X Lion thumb drive clean install

I just recently bought the Mac OS X Lion thumb drive, so that I can quickly upgrade my current version (10.5.8). I understand that I have to do a clean install and I have already backed up my hard drive. When I open the thumb drive it says that I cannot install 10.7 with my current version. How do I get this to work? I have tried to search for the hard drive photo ( .dmg file) under what most have said is the "Sharedresources" folder....except my thumb drive doesnt have a folder called shared resources under "contents."

gek5 wrote:
There is no disk utility on the thumb drive.the problem is that i cant open anything on the thumb drive.
Did you read my post?
("are you booting from the USB? (Hold the option key on Boot")

Have leopard can I with using lion thumb drive, install without first install snow leoapard

Have leopard, can I with using lion thumb drive, install without first install snow leoapard ?

The requirement for Snow Leopard was for downloading Lion from the app store. With Lion on the thumb drive, you can upgrade without SL.
 Cheers, Tom

How do i completely get rid of my Macintosh HD so I can start fresh and install mac os x Lion thumb drive

I just purchased the thumb drive for OS X Lion. As far as I know, because I only have 10.5.8 and I do not want to purchase Snow Lpd. I can just delete everything and start from scratch (according to an employee at the Apple Store). The problem is that I have no idea how to "start from scratch", its not as easy as dragging my Macintosh HD icon from my desktop to the trash can. HELP!

If you really want to start fresh and you have ANY PERSONAL files already backed up, or you don't care about them, stick the thumb drive in the USB port and reboot the system. Hold down the Option key when you hear the apple startup sound, let it go after about 15-20 second. That will give you a screen where you select which drive to boot off of, select the thumb drive. Once that has booted go to Disk Utility and RE-Partition the drive. That will wipe all information off it. Once that is done close Disk Utility and you will be back at the original screen. Select Install OS X Lion.
Have fun.

Lion thumb-drive for my 2008 macbook pro WONT INSTALL!!!!!!!!!!

I just bought the $69 Lion thumb-drive for my 2008 macbook pro (still running leopard) and when I insert the drive, the Lion Install screen opens up and it say "You cannot use this version of the application Install Mac OS X Lion with this version of Man OS X."
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?

Does Apple still sell Lion thumb drives

My Mac Pro 1.1 came with Tiger but now has Leapord. I would like to jump Snow Leapord and go straight to Lion. If I don't want to reinstall all my software (FCP, Photoshop, and more) must I use the Lion thumb drive? If so, can I buy it from Apple?

With regard to your applications that may be PowerPC, here is a post I assembled for another:
Workarounds:
1. If your Mac will support it, restore OS X Snow Leopard;
2. If your Mac will support it, partition your hard drive or add an external hard drive and install Snow Leopard into it and use the "dual-boot" method to choose between your PowerPC software or Lion/Mt. Lion;
3. Upgrade your software to Intel compatible versions, or find alternative software that will open your data files;
3. Install Snow Leopard (with Rosetta) into Parallels and continue to operate the PowerPC apps:
[click on image to enlarge]
Full Snow Leopard installation instructions here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439
NOTE: STEP ONE of the instructions must currently be completed on a Snow Leopard or Lion Mac and the resulting modified Snow Leopard.cdr install file can then be moved over to your Mountain Lion Mac for completion of the remaining steps.
NOTE 2: Computer games with complex, 3D or fast motion graphics make not work well or at all in virtualization.

Need Advice Fast About Lion Thumb Drive Please!

Here's my situation, I've got several Macs that are on Snow Leopard that can upgrade to Lion but not Mountain Lion, I've been looking around for the Lion thumb drive, but can only find it on eBay, or some pirated version on Amazon.com.
Here's the one I'm looking at http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/140823936141
Can anyone confirm that I can use this Lion thumb drive on as many Macs as I want? I can't really find it written definitively anywhere on the net that I can use it on a unlimited number of Macs. Thanks, please reply ASAP.

You can make a USB thumb drive with the Recovery HD only on it and use it to boot into the Recovery HD to download/install Lion on the Macs you own or control. The Lion Recovery Disk Assistant is used to create this thumb drive. It does not have the full installer. You can install the assistant on any Mac that is running Lion.

Lion Thumb Drive is now in the Apple Store

The Lion Thumb Drive is now in the Apple Store for $69. http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD256Z/A?mco=MTY3ODQ5OTY
The System requirements say that you need to be at 10.6.6 but that seems to be a leftover from downloading it from the App Store. When you click on "See all system requirements" it takes you to the pre thumb drive page.
There are questions in the "Questions and Answers" section but no answers yet. http://store.apple.com/us/questions/product/MD256Z/A?mco=MjQ1NDU5NTU

Here is an interesting note:
Important Note
When you install OS X Lion using the USB thumb drive, you will not be able to reinstall OS X Lion from Lion Recovery. You will need to use the USB thumb drive to reinstall OS X Lion.

Lion Thumb Drive

Can anyone confirm if the Lion thumb drive from Apple will allow a fresh install (as opposed to the download from the App Store only being available as an upgrade to Snow Leopard)?
It does list system requirements on the main page:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD256Z/A?mco=MTY3ODQ5OTY
But, in that section, there is a link at the bottom to "See all system requirements". That section seems to be the standard Lion page which lists 10.6.6 or later as a requirement (which I can only assume is because the App Store was released in 10.6.6):
http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html
I'm like 98% sure you can do a full fresh install from the USB drive, but I'd like to be sure as I've been recommending this as an option for people.

It's in the store but don't try to update from 10.5.8, it doesn't work.

Lion Thumb Drive version number higher than .0?

I know that you can run software update to get the latest updates to your Lion OS after installing it (from the USB drive) if there are any available, but it's always nice to do a basic install with a higher than 10.7.0 (for example) just to get past a few of the bugs fixed in updates on that initial install. In Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard Apple would update the basic installer disc's from time to time in the retail box, I was wondering if anyone had bought a Lion Thumb drive installer USB stick with a version higher than 10.7 ?
PS I do know you can use the App Store and get the latest version as a download, but I am interested right now in the physcial product.

powerbook1701 wrote:
I was wondering if anyone had bought a Lion Thumb drive installer USB stick with a version higher than 10.7 ?
AFAIK, only 10.7.0 is available and there's no updater for the stick. Send Apple http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Mac OS X Lion THUMB USB

Hello.
I want to buy the Mac OS X Lion Thumb USB, from the Apple Store.
Here's a silly question I would like to be answered: what comes with the Thumb USB? Apple Stickers? Printed information?
Does it come properly packaged? Since I'm from Portugal, ir requires a amount of time to arrive... just wondering if it will come in a box...
Thank you in advance.

Thanks for the quick answer... but...
What else comes in the box? (Just out of curiosity, please?)
Thank you very much!

I just purchased a USB lion thumb drive will I be able to install it on 2 Macs with different apple IDs?

My partner and I both have macs I want to update to lion, i just purchased the lion thunb drive, obviously we both have our own apple ID, will I be able to install it on both computers? If not how could I buy a second product key.
Thanks

There is no product key involved for Lion.

Thumb drive install doesn't work

Running OS 10.6.8 on my Mac mini (Intel Core 2 duo.) I just tried to install Lion with the thumb drive. When I get to the point where it ask which drive I want to install it on, all of the drives, including the internal HD which is the one I want to use) are greyed out and can't be selected. Ideas? Thanks.

follow the steps here and see if you can remove whatever's causing the problem, http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/cs5-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html

HT4848 Recovery HD (Mac) vs Recovery Disk (thumb drive)?

What is the difference between the Recovery Disk on the thumb drive and the Recovery HD on the Mac? In what situations would you use each one?

On the computer itself:
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Using the USB flash drive:
Insert USB drive into a USB port.
Restart the computer.
Immediately after the chime press and hold down the "OPTION" key.
Release the key when the boot manager appears.
Select the Recovery HD icon on the USB device.
Click on the arrow button below the icon.
EDIT:
As Baltwo has suggested you can make a fully bootable Lion installer:
Make Your Own Lion Installer
1. After downloading Lion you must first save the Install Mac OS X Lion application. After Lion downloads DO NOT click on the Install button. Go to your Applications folder and make a copy of the Lion installer. Move the copy into your Downloads folder. Now you can click on the Install button. You must do this because the installer deletes itself automatically when it finishes installing Lion.
2. Get a USB flash drive that is at least 8 GBs. Prep this flash drive as follows:
Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
3. Locate the saved Lion installer in your Downloads folder. CTRL- or RIGHT-click on the installer and select Show Package Contents from the contextual menu. Double-click on the Contents folder to open it. Double-click on the SharedSupport folder. In this folder you will see a disc image named InstallESD.dmg.
4. Plug in your freshly prepared USB flash drive. You are going to clone the InstallESD.dmg disc image to the flash drive as follows:
Open Disk Utility.
Select the USB flash drive from the left side list.
Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
Check the box labeled Erase destination.
Select the USB flash drive volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
Drag the InstallESD.dmg disc image file into the Source entry field.
Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
When the clone is completed you have a fully bootable Lion installer that you can use without having to re-download Lion.
The catch here is you must have a copy of the Lion installer application. If you downloaded Lion from the App Store and installed it, then it was automatically deleted after the installation. That means you need to sign into the App Store while running Snow Leopard to redownload Lion for free.
If your computer came with Lion pre-installed then there is no obvious way to get the installer application needed. This will necessitate using the methods outlined in Downloading Hardware Specific Lion Installers to obtain the installer.

My Mac Pro will read thumb-drive but not CF card reader

Can someone help me resolve this problem?
I just erased everything off my Mac Pro and reconfigured everything (as new). I installed all my programs, primarily Aperture3 and Photoshop CS5
(using Leopard).
I had NO problem uploaded some photos into Aperture3 from a thumb drive using the USB port, BUT,
when I tried to upload photos from my card reader the MacPro does not recognize the card reader using the same USB port.
I figured the problem was a bad card reader, so I tested it on my PC and it recognized the card reader and uploaded all the photos.
Also, the card reader's green light turns on when attached to the MacPro, as if it is working and connected but it does not register in Finder or desktop to indicate that the card reader is installed.
I even tried to upload directly from my Canon 7D and it also did NOT recognize the camera.
Why would the MacPro recognize the thumb drive on the same USB port and not the card reader or the camera?
Please help!

Try power down and doing an smc reset:
Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)

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