Archive | Imaging RSS feed for this section
boot-from-external-usb-drive-osx

Easiest Way to Make an Image or USB bootable Copy of of OSX Lion 10.7

Without a doubt the easiest way to make a copy, clone or image of your Mac OSX Lion 10.7 computer that you can boot from, is using a product called Carbon Copy Cloner, using this application is straightforward and avoids any work in the Terminal and been around for a long time and is simply [...]

Read more
custom-settings-instadmg-10-lion-osx

OSX Lion InstaDMG First Boot Part 3

After tutorials 1 & 2 with InstaDMG which deal with doing a basic build and then introducing a user account, time to tweak some settings on OSX 10.7 for the first time boot to include settings such as name, network and time zone settings and set preferences for applications including Safari and the finder. The [...]

Read more
instadmg-osx-lion-new-user

Create an updated image of OS X Lion 10.7 with a Local User Account using InstaDMG

Part 2 – Tutorial of the basics of using InstaDMG with OSX Lion 10.7. Please refer to Part 1 to get familiar with the basics of creating a simple ‘out of the box’ InstaDMG image of OSX 10.7. Moving on from the initial image created with InstaDMG which will boot the Mac to a typical [...]

Read more
instadmg-lion-osx-image-boxed

Create an up to date image of OS X Lion 10.7 Using InstaDMG

This is an introduction to InstaDMG, which is a powerful command line tool used to produce clean never booted OS X images, these images can include OSX incremental upgrades as well as 3rd party software and scripts. This particular guide is a reference to getting started and just produce an up to date OSX 10.7 [...]

Read more

Make a Bootable USB Drive from OS X Lion Using the Recovery Partition

On every OS X Lion installation a hidden partition is created to enable a method for Lion to be reinstalled on the machine, it is known as the recovery partition or drive and is 650mb in size. If you bought a new machine from Apple you have OS X 10.7 already installed – but no [...]

Read more

How to make a bootable OSX 10.7 Lion Disc or Drive from the downloaded Lion.app

I know Apple are going away from optical media, pushing it the same way as the old floppy disk but heck it’s still nice to have a bootable OSX disk or drive in times of need.   After downloading the Lion.App from the store aka “Install Mac OS X Lion”, control click it to bring [...]

Read more