Some of the complaints regarding Lion being distributed through the App Store are from users who have ISP’s with bandwidth caps, a particularly common scenario for anyone using a cellular connection. The final release of Mac OS X Lion is said to be a 4GB download.

Now launch Disk Utility (/Applications/Utilities/), pop in a blank DVD, select the “InstallESD.DMG” file, and click on “Burn”Īfter your disk is done burning, you’ll be able to boot from it with any Lion compatible Mac by holding down C during boot up.Copy “InstallESD.dmg” to your Mac OS X Desktop, this is the Lion disk image and what you’re going to create the bootable DVD from.Find and open the “SharedSupport” folder and locate a disc image file called “InstallESD.dmg”.From the Mac OS X Finder, locate the Mac OS X Installation file that was downloaded, right-click, and “Show Package Contents”.Download Mac OS X Lion from the Mac App Store ($29.99).

These instructions are born from the 10.7 developer preview but should remain identical come time for the July public release: Creating a Bootable Install Disc for Mac OS X Lion

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