Re: Installing Lion from scratch

2011-11-02 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Sarah Yes; we've done that once. The build of Lion we have as an install.app is obsolete I'd guess but I'm not sure about that. Has anybody downloaded it recently from the App Store? Lynne On 3 Nov 2011, at 00:48, Sarah Alawami wrote: If you backed up the dmg in the install lion app fil

Re: Installing Lion from scratch

2011-11-02 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello James We've now changed our mind on this one. We don't want the machine to be an exact duplicate of the MBP's we use because those machine are all configured with Lion Server and that isn't how we want the little MacBook to be configured. So I'm now looking for another way of installing L

Re: Installing Lion from scratch

2011-11-02 Thread Sarah Alawami
If you backed up the dmg in the install lion app file you could burn it to a dvd and boot from it with your os less drive I believe. then just install lion that way. It would probably take the same amount of time. Someone let me know if I am correct in this assumption On Nov 2, 2011, at 12:53 P

Re: Installing Lion from scratch

2011-11-02 Thread James AUSTIN
Hello Lynne, As far as I know, this should work, as the Lion download is not specific to any one machine, unlike the Snow Leopard DVDs that were shipped with Macs prior to Lion's release. I've not tired this though as I use CCC. HTH TC :) J On 2 Nov 2011, at 19:53, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith

Re: Installing Lion from scratch

2011-11-02 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello John Many thanks indeed. I thought it would work; but I decided to check first because I didn't particularly want to waste the time otherwise. It will take a while because the ™ backup is on a network volume. Thank you again. Lynne On 2 Nov 2011, at 20:37, g...@tznet.com wrote: • Short

RE: Installing Lion from scratch

2011-11-02 Thread g...@tznet.com
Lynne: Short and easy answer is yes. I've done this before and works like a charm. The only thing I can think of if you have licensed programs you might have to type in the serial number ETC. It works good and hope you have good luck with it. John Original Message: - From: M