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Created July 20, 2011 05:00
Create A Bootable Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Flash Drive
http://subrosasoft.com/blog/2011/07/create-a-bootable-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-flash-drive/
1) Purchase and download Lion from the Mac App Store on any Lion compatible Mac running Snow Leopard.
2) Right click on “Mac OS X Lion” installer and choose the option to “Show Package Contents”
3) Inside the Contents folder, you will find a SharedSupport folder and inside the SharedSupport folder you will find the
InstallESD.dmg. This is the 10.7 Lion boot disc image.
4) Copy InstallESD.dmg to another folder like the Desktop. To do so, simply click and drag the file to the desired location