Our main Lion-installation article, if you leave the Lion installer in its default location (in /Applications) and use it to install Lion on your Mac’s startup drive, the installer will be automatically deleted after the installation finishes. Recovery and restore features-in fact, when you boot from this drive or DVD, you’ll see the same Mac OS X Utilities screen you get when you boot into restore mode. You can also use any of the Lion installer’s special You can now boot any Lion-compatible Mac from this drive or DVD and install Lion. When prompted, insert a blank DVD (a single-layer disc should work, although you can use a dual-layer disc instead), choose your burn options, and click Burn. In Disk Utility, select InstallESD.dmg in the sidebar However, with the 10.7.4 installer, you must use the mounted Mac OS X Install ESD volume or you will get an error at the end of the restore procedure and the newly created bootable drive may not function properly. Note: In versions of the Lion installer prior to 10.7.4, you didn’t need to first mount the InstallESD.dmg image-you could simply drag the image itself into the Source field. The restore procedure will take anywhere from five to 15 minutes, depending on your Mac and the speed of your drive.
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