Then, if you're sure you understand all the risks and liabilities, you're ready to proceed. Make sure you choose the correct destination the USB stick , or you'll end up installing it to the Mac you're working on. All this is done in the background and may take a while depending on the speed of the pen drive.
Click OK to continue and the next screen will ask you to choose your motherboard model number. The exact version is preferable, but a close variant will also do. Make sure you have an Internet connection as Kakewalk will need to download the necessary drivers from its repository. If your motherboard is not listed, you'll have to choose the closest match. Then carefully select your destination as the USB drive now renamed as Kakewalk.
After completion, you can safely eject the USB stick and return the Macintosh to its owner, unscathed. Go to the BIOS where a few changes need to be made. Save and close the BIOS settings. Warning: The target hard drive will be reformatted and all data on it will be lost. If possible, install Lion on a new, blank hard drive.
STEP 7 After a long process during which you'll see lines of text characters scrolling continuously, you will land at the Lion installation screen.
If you have not reached here, it's possible that a compatibility issue has been discovered. Better safe than sorry. Lion download process is driving me crazy. Can I try again later? If yes, how? Must I run AppStore again? When trying to download again onto one of my other Macs the app store keeps trying to make me pay again even though it is marked a recent purchase. How to get around that?
I accidentally clicked the little delete-button whom appears when hovering over it… How do I undo this? I did exactly this yesterday and copied the install files to my other Macs. Saves my precious metered bandwidth :. Name required. Mail will not be published required. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited. Enjoy this tip? Subscribe to our newsletter!
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To do this, ensure your medium has at least 4GB of capacity and then follow these steps:. Insert a blank disc when the burn dialog displays, and then click Burn be sure to have Disk Utility verify the burn to ensure the media works as it should. To restore to a drive, select the Disk Image and click the Restore tab.
Then ensure it is in the Source field drag it there if it is not , and then drag your drive of choice from the Disk Utility sidebar to the Destination field. Then click the Restore button and confirm you wish to delete the drive and restore the image to it. If you run into any errors, try formatting the drive first and then drag the formatted volume to the Destination field instead of the entire drive device.
After you download the installer, copy it to any Mac that meets the minimum hardware requirements and install Lion. The Lion installer downloads to your Applications folder, and it is just under 4 GB in size. The system requirements are:. You can install Lion on any internal drive, including SSDs. The Lion Recovery partition takes MB of free space. The Lion installer creates two partitions, one for Lion and one for recovery tools. You can use the Recovery Partition to repair drives, fix permissions, and format drives, as well as reinstall Lion if needed.
The Recovery Partition includes a bootable system with Disk Utility. The target volume should be erased at best; at a minimum, it should not contain any OS X system.
With previous versions of OS X installers, you could erase the target drive as part of the installation process. With the Lion installer, there are two methods of performing a clean install.
One method requires you to create a bootable Lion install DVD, and the second lets you perform a clean install using the Lion installer you downloaded from the Mac App Store. The difference between the two methods is that to use the Lion installer directly, you must have a drive or partition that you can erase before running the installer. Using a bootable Lion install DVD allows you to erase a drive or partition as part of the installation process.
If you want to use your current startup drive as the target for a clean install, you need to use the bootable Lion install DVD method. If you're going to perform a clean install of Lion on a drive other than your current startup drive, then you're ready to proceed. Before you begin the Lion installation process, back up your existing OS X system and user data. Performing a clean install on a separate drive or partition shouldn't cause any data loss with your current system, but stranger things have happened, and it is best to be prepared.
At a minimum, make sure you have a current backup. For more protection, make a bootable clone of your current startup drive. You must erase the target drive before you can start the Lion installation process. Remember that to use the Lion installer as downloaded from the Mac App Store, you must have a working copy of OS X to start the installer from. You may need to create a new partition to install to or resize existing partitions to create the necessary space.
You can use Disk Utility to add, format, or resize a drive's partitions. Before you start the Lion installer, close all other applications that are currently running on your Mac. Click Continue in the window that opens. Scroll through the terms of use and click Agree. The Lion installer assumes you want to install Lion on the current startup drive.
To select a different target drive, click Show All Disks and select the target disk from the list—the disk you erased earlier. With the target disk highlighted, click Install.
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