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In the folder that appears, open Contents, then open Shared Support you’ll see a disk-image file called InstallESD.dmg.

Right-click (or Control+click) the installer, and choose Show Package Contents from the resulting contextual menu.

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It’s called Install Mac OS X Lion.app and it should have been downloaded to /Applications.

Once you’ve purchased Lion, find the Lion installer on your Mac.

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If your only Mac was released after Lion, so you can’t download the Lion installer from the Mac App Store, I’ve also provided instructions for creating a bootable Lion-install drive for newer Macs. So if you create a bootable Lion-installer drive using the current version of the Lion installer-which, as of, installs OS X 10.7.3-that drive will work with all current Lion-capable Macs. However, unlike with the CD- and DVD-based Mac OS X installers of old, Apple can-and does-update the Mac App Store version of the Lion installer.

Update: When this article was originally published, the Mac App Store version of Lion would not boot any Macs released in mid-2011 or later, as those models shipped with a newer version of Lion preinstalled. Thankfully, it’s easy to create a bootable Lion-install volume from the Lion installer that you download from the Mac App Store just follow the steps below.

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Also, if you need to reinstall Lion, recovery mode requires you to download the entire 4GB Lion installer again.) Finally, a bootable installer drive makes it easier to install Lion over Leopard (assuming you have the license to do so). (Lion features a new recovery mode (also called Lion Recovery), but not all installations of Lion get it-and if your Mac’s drive is itself having trouble, recovery mode may not even be available. Also, if your Mac is experiencing problems, a bootable installer drive makes a handy emergency disk.

Indeed, this lack of physical media is perhaps the biggest complaint about Lion’s App Store-only distribution, as there are a good number of reasons you might want a bootable Lion installer, whether it be a DVD, a thumb drive, or an external hard drive.įor example, if you want to install Lion on multiple Macs, a bootable installer drive can be more convenient than downloading or copying the entire Lion installer to each computer. Unlike previous versions of Mac OS X, Lion (OS X 10.7) doesn’t ship on a bootable disc-it’s available only as an installer app downloadable from the Mac App Store, and that installer doesn’t require a bootable installation disc.