Re: burning mountain lion to disk

Hi Thomas I am happy that you now have things sorted. Yes, I am not surprised that your disk image was the Lion OS. Apple finally made the process of burning a DVD of their operating system quite late in the test phase of Mountain Lion, which did take some by surprise. As for the hardware va

Re: burning mountain lion to disk

Hi Sean Apple is trying to squeeze the other hardware vendors out it would seem. Although sometimes the validation doesn't seem to work as expected, on many occasions it can fail, giving something like an error 1014 or 1004 with a very misleading message. I think that, had we mot been quite s

Re: burning mountain lion to disk Is No Longer An Option!

Hello Sarah The DVD image is in exactly the same place. The 4.35GB size sounds right, which would obviously make it too large for a DVD which has a capacity of 4.2GB. That is an intentional move on Apple's part. They are moving away from the physical media with the exception of thumb drives.

Re: burning mountain lion to disk

Hi Gordon, the install dmg does turn out to be my old Lion one, glad you pointed that out to me, had forgotten that I had intentionally put the M L one at another place until I can back it up on thumb drive, in other words not at a place where I am likely to drop it in trash or something like th

Re: Putting Mountain Lion on a bootable USB memory stick [was Re: burning mountain lion to disk]

Hi All, The Apple Recovery Disk Assistant method is useful because it will work for systems which come with the operating system (either Lion or Mountain Lion) already installed -- for example, if you buy a new Mac, and want to make a bootable recovery disk. The method of using SuperDuper! to

Re: burning mountain lion to disk

having just read all that, is preventing competition like that not in some way illegal? or is it a case of manufacturers not having enough financial where with all to bother? it just seems to me, that in many respects, apple have succeeded where microsoft have thankfully failed. On 28/07/2012,

Re: burning mountain lion to disk

Maybe I'm getting confused. Look at the webkit disk image and it's 40 mb. Mount it and the app is 120. maybe that type of dmg is called something else. but since I cannot burn a dvd even though the size shows 4.35 gb and I have a 4.7 gig dvd it should still barely fit. Should it not? maybe like

Re: burning mountain lion to disk

Sarah Disk images are not compressed. If you need to prove that, have a look at the size of the Lion disk image under wrote: I have opened a 40 mb dmg and found a 120 mb app in there so it has to be compressed in some way. i have compared the sizes of dmgs I myself have created and they re sm

Re: burning mountain lion to disk

Gah@ sent my message too early. I also looked at the install esd dmg for ml and it showed a size of 4.7 gigs in the disk utility. so it should in theory burn to at least a dool layer DVD. Only in theory of corse. On Jul 28, 2012, at 6:30 AM, Gordon Smith wrote: > Sarah > > A dmg disk image is

Re: burning mountain lion to disk

I have opened a 40 mb dmg and found a 120 mb app in there so it has to be compressed in some way. i have compared the sizes of dmgs I myself have created and they re smaller then what I started with.therefore my deductions they are compressed. On Jul 28, 2012, at 6:30 AM, Gordon Smith wrote: >

Re: Putting Mountain Lion on a bootable USB memory stick [was Re: burning mountain lion to disk]

Ah. I can't test with a flash card. I stepped on mine a long time ago it shattered. besides the one I do have is only 2 gigs so that won't work. Maybe for a short protools project but not for lion. Imight give this a try and see if this works. This is coolio! On Jul 28, 2012, at 7:41 AM, Gordon

Re: Putting Mountain Lion on a bootable USB memory stick [was Re: burning mountain lion to disk]

That's exactly what the recovery tool is for Sarah. It isn't necessary to pre-format the drive as the partition is written block by block when you attempt to write your boot device. Sean, Try the recovery tool and point it to your flash card and see what happens. If the flash card isn't liste

Re: burning mountain lion to disk

Thomas There's no such thing as a "compressed" .dmg image. Not, at least, in this context. A disk image is just like an .iso image used in other operating systems. Neither is compressed. The files are exactly as they would be if you were to open a folder. That is how you're able to mount the

Re: Putting Mountain Lion on a bootable USB memory stick [was Re: burning mountain lion to disk]

Actually the recovery assistant tool is quite interesting because it writes which ever operating system you happen to be using at the time to the thumb drive. I've used this several times using both Lion and Mountain Lion. If anybody wants a quick link to this tool, you can find it here:

Re: burning mountain lion to disk

Sarah A dmg disk image is not compressed. So where do you get that idea from? Gordon On 28 Jul 2012, at 01:29, Sarah Alawami wrote: Oh Odd. my installed.dmg only shows 4.35 gb but that's compressed. I have not yet looked at it uncompressed. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To rep

Re: burning mountain lion to disk

The installer is now too large for you to burn it to a single layer DVD. So the process is now more complex. Gordon On 27 Jul 2012, at 23:46, Thomas McMahan wrote: No you haven't, there is only one that I know of. I was lazy installing mine, just let it install by their procedures, then wen

Re: burning mountain lion to disk

Sarah It isn't that simple any more. Gordon On 27 Jul 2012, at 21:46, Sarah Alawami wrote: You probably download the right one. this happened with lion as well. just quit the installer then open the applications folder and click show package contents after fining the Install OS X Mountain L

Re: Putting Mountain Lion on a bootable USB memory stick [was Re: burning mountain lion to disk]

In one word, yes. smile On Jul 27, 2012, at 11:57 PM, Shaun Oliver wrote: > would it be possible to use that same method to put the install for mountain > lion on an SD card? I have a 16 gb card here and it's currently sitting idle > on my desktop and could be better served as installation m

Re: Putting Mountain Lion on a bootable USB memory stick [was Re: burning mountain lion to disk]

As long as it is formatted as mac osx extended journaled with the guid (spelled g u i d) partition. I'v never heard of a flash card being formatted that way and I'm not sure if the mac can boot from a flash card. You can try it though and let us know if it works. Good luck On Jul 27, 2012, at

Re: Putting Mountain Lion on a bootable USB memory stick [was Re: burning mountain lion to disk]

would it be possible to use that same method to put the install for mountain lion on an SD card? I have a 16 gb card here and it's currently sitting idle on my desktop and could be better served as installation media for my mac than a ready boos on my windows pc On 28/07/2012, at 2:02 PM, John

Re: Putting Mountain Lion on a bootable USB memory stick [was Re: burning mountain lion to disk]

Hello: Esterth you posted a message last week regarding using SuperDuper and using the USB drive and the message was very helpful. I installed ML using your method and wonderful. Thanks, John On Jul 27, 2012, at 7:39 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > You could get a 6GB or 8GB USB memory

Re: Putting Mountain Lion on a bootable USB memory stick [was Re: burning mountain lion to disk]

Hi Esther. Thanks for the reminder of the file that Gordon had put into dropbox. Had put it off the other day, but yes I am planning on just getting a larger thumb drive and going that route. Small and easy to put in a safe place here from our usually dusty environment. Am afraid if I put it

Re: burning mountain lion to disk

I haven't either, but it's interesting that yours said 4.35 and mine says 4.18 and mine is uncompressed as well, just the installESD.dmg It's just sitting there on my desktop at the moment so it's easily found when I have something to put it on as a backup. On Jul 27, 2012, at 7:29 PM, Sarah

Re: Putting Mountain Lion on a bootable USB memory stick [was Re: burning mountain lion to disk]

yeah looks like I need to do this. Roar! No pun intended. lol! Take care all. On Jul 27, 2012, at 5:39 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > You could get a 6GB or 8GB USB memory stick and boot from there instead of > from DVD. I believe you can use Apple's Recovery Disk Assistant to make this >

Putting Mountain Lion on a bootable USB memory stick [was Re: burning mountain lion to disk]

Hi Thomas, You could get a 6GB or 8GB USB memory stick and boot from there instead of from DVD. I believe you can use Apple's Recovery Disk Assistant to make this and get it either from Apple's download site or from the Dropbox address that Gordon posted earlier: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2257

Re: burning mountain lion to disk

Oh Odd. my installed.dmg only shows 4.35 gb but that's compressed. I have not yet looked at it uncompressed. Take care. On Jul 27, 2012, at 5:18 PM, Thomas McMahan wrote: > Did a get info and it said 4.18 gb, yes that is larger than anything I have > here at the time. > On Jul 27, 2012, at 7:

Re: burning mountain lion to disk

Did a get info and it said 4.18 gb, yes that is larger than anything I have here at the time. On Jul 27, 2012, at 7:16 PM, michael weaver wrote: > i think you are right. i tried burning mountain lion to a dvd and the few i > tried i was told there wasn't enough room on the disk so i have had

Re: burning mountain lion to disk

i think you are right. i tried burning mountain lion to a dvd and the few i tried i was told there wasn't enough room on the disk so i have had no choice but to do an upgrade from lion. - Original Message - From: Gordon Smith I'm not sure that this works any longer as the install D

Re: burning mountain lion to disk

No you haven't, there is only one that I know of. I was lazy installing mine, just let it install by their procedures, then went back and downloaded it again and like Lion before can then see the os mountain lion, and then go into package contents and then shared support folder and then instal

Re: burning mountain lion to disk

You probably download the right one. this happened with lion as well. just quit the installer then open the applications folder and click show package contents after fining the Install OS X Mountain Lion app, then go to contents/shared support/installesd.dmg and copy it to the desktop then burn

Re: burning mountain lion to disk

I'm not sure that this works any longer as the install DVD is too large for a standard DVD. Gordon On 27 Jul 2012, at 19:52, Timothy J. Meloy wrote: You should be able to quit the install then point to the app in the applications folder and VO shift m and go to show package contents. On Ju

Re: burning mountain lion to disk

You should be able to quit the install then point to the app in the applications folder and VO shift m and go to show package contents. TJ On Jul 27, 2012, at 3:05 PM, michael weaver wrote: > i have just bought mountain lion only for some reason it wants to run the > installation rather than

burning mountain lion to disk

i have just bought mountain lion only for some reason it wants to run the installation rather than me being able to locate the files to burn it to dvd. i wonder if i have downloaded the wrong file from the app store as mountain lion seems to be read several times when i first enter the app stor