Hey guys! Do you all agree that this is a good idea for us to do?
Just curious in Erie On Oct 10, 2011, at 6:25 PM, James Scholes wrote: > Hi Gavin, > > The below solution should work, although please note that I have not tried it > myself and that I have only been using a Mac for a week. This method will > not keep any of your files, settings or applications, so be sure to back them > up to an external drive, optical media or online backup service before you > begin. Do not use Time Machine in Lion, as when you restore your files after > the Snow Leopard installation Lion will be restored also. > > If you have the Snow Leopard install DVD: > 1. Boot into Lion Recovery mode. To do this, reboot/power on your Mac and > either hold down Command-R, or hold down Option and select Recovery HD from > the list of disks in the Startup Manager (wait about 15 seconds after you've > heard the Apple chime to be safe, and then hit the right arrow key followed > by enter). > 2. If VoiceOver doesn't begin talking (I can't remember off the top of my > head whether it starts up automatically in recovery mode or not), hit > Command-F5 to load it. > 3. In Disk Utility, locate your Macintosh HD and navigate to the Partition > tab. > 4. Find the Partition Layout drop-down menu and choose 1 Partition. > 5. Select the Erase tab, make sure that Mac OS Extended (Journaled) is > selected as the filesystem and hit the Erase button. > 6. Restart your Mac with the SL DVD in your optical drive and hold down the C > key to boot from it. > 7. Follow the Snow Leopard installation steps. > 8. Restore your files, settings and applications. > -- > James Scholes > http://twitter.com/JamesScholes > > -- > 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. > Johnny Angel! beefca...@neo.rr.com -- 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.
