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Mountain Lion is the second release of OS X to be delivered via the Mac App Store. Like with Lion, users can create their own bootable USB key installer to use as a recovery disk or to install Mountain Lion on multiple Macs without needing to download the 4GB installer multiple times.
Ars Technica has an excellent walk-through using either the Disk Utility application that is included on every Mac, or the newly updated Lion Diskmaker app that automates the process of creating a bootable install key.
The biggest catch to the whole process is to make a copy of the Mountain Lion installer before actually installing Mountain Lion, otherwise the installer will need to be redownloaded from the Mac App Store.
(Image via Ars Technica/Chris Foresman)
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Reminder: you MUST copy the package before the actual install, but it's easy.
"Create a Bootable Mountain Lion USB Key Installer"
No! I will not!
I fell for this with Lion and spent X wasted minutes of my life creating a USB key installer of Lion which I never used. :mad:
I'm letting is all hang out this time around; no ML USB key installer for me!
Yeah that'll show em'!
"Create a Bootable Mountain Lion USB Key Installer"
No! I will not!
I fell for this with Lion and spent X wasted minutes of my life creating a USB key installer of Lion which I never used. :mad:
I'm letting is all hang out this time around; no ML USB key installer for me!
Yay, I'm about 5 minutes too late since I already installed ML. Oh well.
You got lucky in my opinion.