Joseph, That's a clever one. Never thought of that but I'll save this one in case my bootable lion usb stick goes haywire. Thanks.
On Sep 24, 2011, at 5:19 AM, Joseph Norton wrote: > Hi: > > Perhaps the most painless way to create a Lion recovery image is to > use the program called Super Duper, from http://www.shirt-pocket.com > > It will let you select the "install esd.img" file as a source, and you > can then select your USB drive as the destination. > I have used it to create both a Lion bootable flash drive for the > installer, but, also a bootable installer from Snow Leopard. > > This part of SuperDuper is free. > > Hope this helps. > > > > On 9/23/11, Paul Erkens <paul.erk...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Sun shine, >> Ricardo Walker knows how to do this. He did a podcast on creating a lion >> bootable usb stick. I created one for myself, and I remember it was >> something with control click, but I don't remember anymore how that worked. >> You can be sure that it can be done though. Hope Ricardo will be so kind to >> chime in to give the url of that podcast? >> Paul. >> On Sep 23, 2011, at 4:36 AM, Sunshine wrote: >> >>> okay, now that drag and drop is great in Lion. But I have a small >>> problem in Disk Utility Restore operation: >>> >>> I am trying to make my own Lion Installer USB disk using the Lion disk >>> from the App Store. The problem I am having has to do with dragging >>> the USB disk to the destination. >>> >>> First, I can do other actions well like selecting the disk from the >>> Disk table and mark it for drag with VO-comma. I then also select the >>> Restore tab. I can drag the lion image to the source, and fortunately >>> there is the Image Button that opens a dialog box for choosing the >>> image. Now the issue is with dropping the disk to the destination: >>> even if I drag the usb disk or its partition, VO always says, "fails >>> to drop on the destination icon". >>> >>> Is there another way to place a disk into the destination other than >>> drag and drop? If drag and drop is the only way, did anyone ever >>> succeed in dropping the disk there? How do I do it? I think this >>> affects all Restore operations. >>> >>> >>> tIA, >>> >>> Sunshine >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.