09-01-2011, 04:03 PM
Article Accelerator wrote:
[quote=chopper]
Yeah, it's awesome. You have to download the lion recovery program onto a flash drive where it will remain invisible until you need it. Then it will download the 40 trillion gig program via your inet connection.
Everybody! Get to da choppa! (and let him know that Lion includes a built-in recovery partition).
The recovery partition doesn't have all of the files needed to reinstall the OS. It downloads them from the App Store, which means that without a handy DHCP router and a fast Internet connection you're SOL.
Cloning the recovery partition to a flash drive puts you in the same position as running the re-installer from the recovery partition. It has to download files to complete the installation.
Your best option for making a Lion emergency boot/install disk is to download the Lion installer from the App Store and make your bootable flash drive (or burn a DVD) from the InstallESD.dmg file hidden in the installer package. That should contain a complete installer.