![]() Go to SharedSupport and you’ll see InstallESD.dmg and you will see the contents of a traditional OS X Installation disk. Control-click (or right-click) on it and choose Show Package Contents to see Contents. Or, you can control-click on it, compress it and then let it install. There’s a cute progress bar as that folder gets populated and when it’s done, you can double-click on it to start your Lion install. So let’s look at creating an installer DVD.When you download Lion, it makes a bundle in /Applications called Install Mac OS X Lion. I’m guessing you don’t like the smell of burnt plastic any more than I do. But picture your firewall when you go to reinstall 30 machines that way. ![]() ![]() And I do think that should likely be the first step for most users when they need to reinstall their operating system. And I know that you’re basically running a bless command on Apple’s cloud instance of a NetInstall instance. ![]() Many of my customers also have policies that they have to.Now I know you can boot holding down Command-R and go into recovery mode (boot to that awesome, hidden restore partition). I also think I like to have a DVD for every OS I use. I think the idea of diskless restores will take me a little while to get used to. As many of you probably know, it didn’t work. I took it immediately to another computer, popped it in and booted. Install Esd Dmg Windows 7When I got my MacBook Air, I thought that little USB disk was the coolest.
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