[X4U] New Computer........

[Neil Laubenthal]

Thanks, I knew there had to be a way but was on the way out the door and didn't have time to google it. 

neil

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On 2012-02-12, at 4:03, "Randy B. Singer" <randy at macattorney.com> wrote:

> 
> On Feb 11, 2012, at 8:31 AM, Neil Laubenthal wrote:
> 
>> For machines that ship with it installed . . .I wonder how this works . . .there must be a way to get the actual installer for backup purposes but I don't know what it is.
> 
> The Apple provided way to get a copy of Lion if it came pre-installed:
> 
> Download Lion Recovery Disk Assistant:
> http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433
> http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
> 
> To burn a DVD or create a USB Flash drive of OS X 10.7:
> 
> Lion Disk Maker, which is a small application programmed with AppleScript that you can use with Mac OS X 10.7 to burn a DVD or build a bootable USB key from Mac OS X Lion’s Installation program.  It is superior to Lion Recovery Disk Assistant, above, in that no part of the OS needs to be downloaded from Apple.
> http://blog.gete.net/lion-diskmaker-us/
> 
> Burning a bootable DVD of Lion:
> http://macs.about.com/od/macoperatingsystems/qt/Create-A-Bootable-Copy-Of-Os-X-Lion.htm?nl=1
> 
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