<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><base href="x-msg://276/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 4, 2014, at 12:35 PM, "John Richardson" <<a href="mailto:richards@spawar.navy.mil">richards@spawar.navy.mil</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Hello,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Can you purchase Lion and/or Mountain Lion in 2014?<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Is the only option to purchase through the App store? Is it just a disk image that can be backed up? I remember something about a USB drive containing the OS for purchase.</div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Here's my understanding from reading online both from Apple and other sources:</div><div><br></div><div>Since Lion, 10.7, there are 2 methods of getting OS X: 1 download yourself, then you're left to back up the download for later use and 2. buy a USB drive with the OS X installer pre-loaded by Apple, from Apple.</div><div><br></div><div>I use this doo-dad for making my own bootable OS X installer: <a href="http://liondiskmaker.com/">Lion Diskmaker</a> Requires a USB/Flash drive of 8GB or larger. There are published techniques for doing this via Disc Utility, but I never had good luck with that method. I think MacWorld published one such how-to.</div><div><br></div><div>To my knowledge there is no legal avenue for purchasing an OS X install DVD from Lion foward.</div><div><br></div><div>J</div><br></body></html>