Drag the InstallESD.dmg disk image into Disk Utility’s left-hand sidebar.Launch Disk Utility (in /Applications/Utilities).In the folder that appears, open Contents, then open Shared Support you’ll see a disk-image file called InstallESD.dmg.Right-click (or Control+click) the installer, and choose Show Package Contents from the resulting contextual menu.It’s called Install Mac OS X Lion.app and it should have been downloaded to /Applications. Once you’ve purchased Lion, find the Lion installer on your Mac.Provided instructions for creating a bootable Lion-install drive for newer Macs. If your only Mac was released after Lion, so you can’t download the Lion installer from the Mac App Store, I’ve also ![]() ![]() So if you create a bootable Lion-installer drive using the current version of the Lion installer-which, as of, installs OS X 10.7.3-that drive will work with all current Lion-capable Macs. However, unlike with the CD- and DVD-based Mac OS X installers of old, Apple can-and does-update the Mac App Store version of the Lion installer. Update: When this article was originally published, the Mac App Store version of Lion would not boot any Macs released in mid-2011 or later, as those models shipped with a newer version of Lion preinstalled.
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