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How To Create A Bootable OS X Lion USB, SD, or DVD

[UPDATE]– An easier method has been posted here

Bootable OS X Lion USB/SD Card

Step 1: Purchase and download a legit copy of OS X Lion from the Mac App Store.

Step 2: Once you are done with downloading OS X Lion, hunt down the Lion installer, right-click on it and then click on “Show Package Contents”.

Step 3: Now head over to the “Contents” folder, navigate inside “Shared Support”, and over there you’re going to find a dmg file labeled “InstallESD.dmg”.

Step 4: Copy the “InstallESD.dmg” file to your desktop for your convenience.

Step 5: Double click the dmg file to mount it

Step 6: Launch Disk Utility (in the Utilities folder within the Applications folder.

Step 7: Right click or option-click the volume inside of InstallESD.dmg and select “set as source”

Step 8: Click the restore tab, and drag the disk from the left that is either your SD card or USB drive into the destination field (must be at least 5GB).

Step 9: Make sure you select “erase destination” and click the restore button

Done!

 

Bootable OS X Lion DVD

 

Step 1: Purchase and download a legit copy of OS X Lion from the Mac App Store.

Step 2: Once you are done with downloading OS X Lion, hunt down the Lion installer, right-click on it and then click on “Show Package Contents”.

Step 3: Now head over to the “Contents” folder, navigate inside “Shared Support”, and over there you’re going to find a dmg file labeled “InstallESD.dmg”.

Step 4: Copy the “InstallESD.dmg” file to your desktop for your convenience.

Step 5: At this point you’re all set to burn Lion on an empty DVD. Fire up “Disk Utility” and click on the “Burn” option, it should be in the top menu, in case you’re unable to find it.

Step 6: “Disk Utility” will now ask you what you want to burn, simply direct it to the “InstallESD.dmg” file which you placed on your desktop in step 4.

Step 7: Toss in a blank writeable DVD inside your Mac’s DVD burner and let it burn.

Step 8: Done!