Tips and Tricks for Apple’s latest version of OS X, 10.7 – Lion.
If you want to create a bootable DVD since the installation is download only, follow these steps (be sure to do this BEFORE you upgrade because the installation file is deleted afterwards!):
- Open Finder and navigate to /Applications/Install Mac OS X Lion
- Right-click on the package and choose Show Package Contents
- Open the Contents folder
- Open SharedSupport and find InstallESD.dmg
- Right-click on InstallESD.dmg and paste (right-click and choosePaste Item) it to a convenient location (such as the Desktop)
- Fire up Disk Utility (/Applications/Utilities)
- Click Burn, select InstallESD.dmg from your convenient location and click Burn
- Find a recordable DVD disc and pop it in the optical drive (yes, you need an optical drive to do this) and click Burn
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