Today Apple released OS X Lion as a standalone installation USB drive. It's available online for $69. This marks the first time Apple has released Lion as a full offline installation of 10.7 that is not tied to any Mac App Store account. Earlier this month, Apple put out a free Lion Recovery Assistant tool, allowing Mac users to create an official USB Recovery drive, however it still requires internet access and a hefty download for each install.
Although we haven't actually laid hands on the drive itself, Apple has posted this:
When you install OS X Lion using the USB thumb drive, you will not be able to reinstall OS X Lion from Lion Recovery. You will need to use the USB thumb drive to reinstall OS X Lion.This remark leads us to believe that the layout and contents of the USB will be much like the OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Retail DVD. We will be updating iBoot which to allow a simple DVD or USB swap similar to the original iBoot + MultiBeast method. This guide will be available in the coming days. Stay tuned!
-tonymacx86 & MacMan
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27 comments:
Greats news indeed..
Looking forward for the updated iBoot now ...
Thanks ...
Now that's what we're waiting for, Tony !!
Cool cant wait!
Finally! iBoot will boot lion! :)
Good Lock
Thank you for helping us.
i'm waiting for the now iboot and multibeast.
Hey I know this is not relevant to the topic but has anyone had issues with the GA-X58A-UD3R with the Gigabyte GTX 285? The only way I was able to sort of successfully get to 10.6.8 is to use one of Tony Mac's older iboots that I had laying around. At first I had some serious issues getting into the O/S because of the PCI config message. But I found out on the forum some other things needed to be installed. Is there a way to look into this?
Ordered. We'll see how well it works.
Looking forward for a "trial" clean install soon.
i hope you are working on the iboot disk now then hopefully a multibeast :), keep the work up
Wow, that's superb! 'cos my mobo does not allow me to boot from a usb flash drive (gigabyte ga-p31-ds3l)
Perfect .. i like the iBoot method better
Could you make a small post that says what Sandy Boards are likely good candidates for installing snow or lion.
Rarely do you post info people ask for,
i bought i5 2500K lastnight at microcenter, and they had a bundle deal $40 off any board with this cpu, so i chose a Biostar(it was dam near free) H61ML LGA 1155 H61, 15 bucks after the 40 dollar discount, cpu was 169.00 4 gigs of ddr3 1333 20 dollars, sick! anyways, i have a image of 10.6.7 or 10.6.8 not sure, i imaged the hd, installed the bootloader, i got the boot screen, then nothing, even with Verbose, it goes right to a black screen, witch worries me, maybe i need 10.6.8 before i try? does .8 by default include SANDY support? if you do not respond i can try in the forum, i just fine the Sandy info out there to be a tad bit sparse.
@ admin .. why don't you go to forum and search a bit .. you will find all the answers. this is a blog not a support forum.
@ Das Volkan yes u can boot from USB on your Motherboard
Hit f12 and choose +HDD and then a next screen apears with the option to choose the usb key.
@ Sohail
Oh my! What the hell "USB-FDD" option does work then? Thanks for the tip buddy!
Released along with 10.7.1
I wonder if this USB installer includes 10.7.1?
Cant wait for it !!!
biostar H61ML LGA 1155 H61
when booting "Still wating for root device "
do i need a DSDT, or is there something in the mulitbeast i can choose to make this bitch boot?
Great work again.
Can't wait for your test results!
I'm not sure if this is known yet, but I would prefer to update to Lion using the USB. Can I do that without formatting my hard drive?
I have a separate SSD for OS/Applications, and I really don't want to reinstall everything after updating to Lion. Is it better to use the App Store method??
Unless you haven't got access to broadband connection without prohibitive data usage restrictions and/or you don't own a legally purchased copy of Snow Leopard, I see little reason to buy Apple's overpriced USB solution. It is easy enough to make your own USB installer for as low the price of Lion (purchased and) downloaded through the App Store and the cost of a cheap USB stick.
Kakewalk 4.1 already installs 10.7 Lion from a usb and works perfectly!!!
http://www.kakewalk.se/
Got mine today, looking forward to the iBoot method!
ok waiting for this....
Yeah but Kakewalk needs an already functioning OS X install to work. iBoot+USB wouldn't.
Hows is going with the guide?
Hi, have I missed the update or new post on this...?
Has been a while and just wondering when a clean install from original USB media will be possible
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