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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]