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
>>> 
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