Thursday, July 21, 2011

Rooooaaaaar (or else OSX Lion on my PC)

Well, time to upgrade to Lion...

1. Download the app from the store.
2. Install it on your hard drive
3. Boot back into your existing Snow Leopard installation.
4. Open /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility
5. Highlight your Snow Leopard drive in left column.
6. Choose the Partition tab, and Click the + to Add a Partition.
7. Name the secondary partition Installer with a size of 8 GB and click Apply.
8. Click Partition & then close Disk utility
9. Download xMove & mount your Lion InstallESD.dmg (otherwise I got a "failed" notification in xMove)
10. Double-Click xMove, and choose Installer as Destination. (be careful because the default is your hard disk drive that you have your Snow leopard installation)
11. Reboot- at the Chimera boot screen, choose Installer
12. It will boot directly to a familiar Mac OS X Installer complete with Disk Utility.
13. Install OS X Lion over existing Snow Leopard or onto any empty drive or partition.

If you've installed directly over an existing Snow Leopard installation, you're done! You should already have done proper post-installation steps on your existing Snow Leopard drive. Otherwise you must run the Multibeast in order for your installation to work flawlessly... Check here if you are doing this as a fresh install for the Multibeast options needed for my motherboard.

No comments:

Post a Comment