[muglo] Re: Lion taming - Hoping a picture is still worth a thousand words.
- From: Allen Clark <acr-tech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 06:35:48 -0400
On 2011-09-15, at 11:57 PM, Dave Knight wrote:
> Hi Allen,
>
> Your email is a bit impenetrable (it's late) :-)
>
> Let me know if I am getting this right...
>
> On 2011-09-15, at 10:17 PM, Allen Clark wrote:
>
>>> Sorry for this backward method - Unable to get text here after the picture
>>> was copied to the blank page.
>
> This comment relates only to how you sent email to the list and not your
> actual OS install issue.
> ---CORRECT---A.C.
>
>>> ( I get the same results with the USB flash drive removed.)
>
> The USB flash drive is called "InstallESD.dmg", if you physically remove it
> from the system you still see it as something you could boot the system from
> when you power on.
>
>> I am sending this from my iMac having Lion happily working for the past
>> couple of weeks. I saved a copy of the lion installESD.dmg to An 8gb USB
>> via. Disk Utility.
>
> You followed instructions like these
> <http://www.macworld.com/article/161069/2011/07/make_a_bootable_lion_installer.html>
> to make a bootable Lion install USB drive.
> ---YES BUT STARTUP W/OPTION BUTTON IT WAS NOT SEEN AS BOOTABLE---A.C.
>
>> After first trying to do a clean install using this (bootable Lion-install
>> drive) I ordered another Snow Leopard disk to do it the easy way.
>
> I assume that your try to install Lion failed. How did it fail?
>
> I assume that when you say you ordered 'another' Snow Leopard disk you don't
> really mean you had a Snow Leopard disk laying around, but decided to buy
> another one anyway :)
> --- I WAS FEELING GUILTY ABOUT NOT BUYING THE FAMILY VERSION ?---
>
>> Now I can boot up with this new disk but having erased the HD I can only
>> copy the disk to the HD - not able to install it. Help Please!
>
> I assume that when you say 'new disk' you mean this Snow Leopard disk. I am
> not at all sure what you mean by 'I can only copy the disk to the HD'. I
> can't imagine why you can't use a shiny new Snow Leopard install DVD to
> install Snow Leopard onto a machine which I presume was happily running Snow
> Leopard before you got it into this pickle.
> ---BOTH MACHINES WERE RUNNING LEOPARD I BOUGHT A SINGLE COPY OF SNOW LEOPARD
> - INSTALLED IT ON MY iMAC - DOWNLOADED LION - OPENED THE PKG. AND USED THE
> installESD.dmg TO MAKE THE BOOTABLE DRIVE - THEN CONTINUED TO INSTALL LION ON
> THE iMAC ---A.C.
>
> As you haven't said how either the Lion, or Snow Leopard install attempts
> actually fail it's nigh on impossible to advise you.
>
> That said, assuming that everything is actually working hardware-wise, if I
> were you I would:
>
> Boot the MacBook with the Snow Leopard DVD
> Before the Installer proper starts choose "Disk Utility" from the Utilities
> menu
> Select the Hard Drive
> Go into the Partitions tab and set...
> Partition Layout: 1 partition
> Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
> Options
> GUID Partition Table
> Hit Apply!
> When that's done exit Disk Utility and start the Snow Leopard installer and
> do a by-the-defaults install
>
> This method definitively blows away any nonsense on the hard drive so you can
> do a truly fresh install, if it doesn't work it would suggest to me that your
> Mac is sick in a way that no amount of different install approaches will fix.
>
> dave---
---THANKS DAVE --- I look forward to following these instructions carefully but
I have couple of appointments today and must quit for now.
AL C.---
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