Hi Geoff If you look around the dick utility tabs, you'll see a "Partition" tab. There is an "Options" button just before the two cancel and "OK" buttons. Pressing that will bring up a table of different partition types. In that table just select the "Guide" partition type radio button and click OK. Then, click "Apply" and then click "Partition". Your partition will then be created.
Gordon On 3 Aug 2012, at 17:06, Geoff Waaler <geoff.waa...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Esther, Gordon and others, I ordered an 8GB SD card for this purpose before reading that most were apparently using a thumb drive, so I don't have an easy way to test USB connected media. Perhaps related, but I see no option to specify "guide" as a partition type in the delete dialog of Disk Utility. After more experimentation I decided that as Esther suggested, the Lion Disk Utility's "restore" dialog is inaccessible for my purposes in that one can not copy or drag the desired media to the target field. I tried opening the "InstallESD.dmg" file and selecting the resulting mounted volume, to no avail. I created the desired installation media via CCC, and it appears to boot properly, so ML should be installed later today. It sounds as though the recovery tool that Gordon posted would have done the trick as well. Thanks to all for your suggestions and best regards. Geoff ----- Original Message ----- From: Gordon Smith To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 4:01 AM Subject: Re: Burning ML to SD card. Hi Geoff Just out of interest, do you happen to have a thumb drive or external hard drive on which you could try this test? As for that Lion Diskmaker, I think it was just written by somebody who has far too much time on their hands. :) Gordon On 2 Aug 2012, at 22:02, Geoff Waaler <geoff.waa...@gmail.com> wrote: I copied the to my desktop and inserted an 8GB SD card. Next, I launched disk utility and in the delete tab selected "macOS journaled". All appeared to have gone well up to this point; I have an empty 7.8 GB partition. Next, I went into the restore tab, and here's where it gets weird. 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