Once the installation is complete, you can restore your files from the backup you created. Once the installer loads, select Install macOS. Use the arrow keys to select it and press Return on your keyboard. Select the drive in Disk Utility and then thePartition Tab. You should see your USB as a bootable disk. In Disk Utility, prepare the USB drive to be bootable.This is the device part you got in the last step after typing 'pwd' with ':,:tbxi' added to the end. Plugin your USB Drive, for this effort I used a 8gb USB drive, and open Disk Utility Type 'boot /pcif2000000/usb1b,1/disk1:,:tbxi'.You will need this file to create the USB drive. In the Finder window displaying the package contents select the Contents folder, then the SharedSupport folder.Find the downloaded App package in Finder, right or control click it and select “Show Package Contents”.

How To Create an OS X Lion USB Installation Drive Below you will find the steps to install OS X Lion via a USB drive. In fact, it is still very easy to create a USB installation disk for OS X Lion. Starting with OS X Lion, the only way to get new software will be to download and install it through the Mac App store.įortunately, it does not appear that Apple has limited our ability to create our own installation media for OS X installations.

From the Junos OS command-line interface (CLI), start the shell: contentcopy zoomoutmap userdevice> start shell Use the gunzip command to unzip the image file. No longer would you be able to buy the latest and greatest software from Apple on DVDs or other media. Insert a USB storage device into the USB port. When Apple announced at their World Wide Developers Conference the release of OS X Lion, they shared that they were moving forward with a new way to distribute software to their customers.

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