Apple Technical White Paper
Best Practices for Deploying & Managing Mac Computers with OS X Lion
Retrieving Hardware Specific Lion Builds Often when new Mac models are released there is a period between hardware release and an OS X Lion update to include support for the new hardware. If you need to create deployment images for the hardware in the meantime you can download them. Perform the following steps on the Mac for which you need the image. 1. Boot from Lion Recovery by holding down Command-R at power on. 2. Plug in an external hard disk. 3. From the Lion Recovery tools window select Reinstall OS X Lion. 4. In the installer, target your external disk. The download will begin automatically. Apple Technical White Paper Lion Deployment Best Practices 5 5. When the installer asks to restart, simply shut down the Mac. 6. Locate the folder named “Mac OS X Install Data” on your external disk. Inside that folder you’ll find an ESDInstall.dmg file that is appropriate for that Mac. After you’ve downloaded the hardware-specific disk image you can use it with System Image Utility or other popular imaging tools.
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