This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Lion install

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Lion install

On the subject - 10.7.4 is the flavor of the day at Apple store now.

Is there any way to get 10.7.3 downloaded? I have a couple Symphonies
to build.

RT

RT wrote:

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> I concur w/ DD. You need SL in order to "officially" purchase Lion at
> the App store.
>
> To make that easier, Apple sent me a FREE SL installer disk recently, in
> the hopes that I'll use it to log on and purchase Lion.
>
> Real nice of them.
>
> RT
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> Dennis Degan wrote:
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> >
> >
> >
> > I previously wrote:
> >
> > > You can do this IF you have Snow Leopard installed. The 10.7
> > installer requires SL for the Lion upgrade to run.
> >
> > On Jun 13, 2012, at 7:16 PM, Job ter Burg (L2B) wrote:
> >
> > > No, it does not require Snow Leopard per se. The point of the
> > clean install is that you don't build on the previous OS.
> > > There's a trick that lets you create a bootable Lion install DVD.
> > >
> >
> http://macs.about.com/od/macoperatingsystems/qt/Create-A-Bootable-Copy-Of-Os-X-Lion.htm
> >
> > I say:
> >
> > Oh, yeah. I forgot about that bootable DVD. I even have one. ;)
> > However, if you try to run the Lion installer APPLICATION, Snow
> > Leopard is required. You could still be doing a clean install; it's
> > just that the Lion installer application looks for SL before it will
> > run:
> >
> <http://macs.about.com/od/macoperatingsystems/qt/Mac-Os-X-Lion-Preview-Mac-Os-X-Lion-Minimum-Requirements.htm
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> >
> > >
> > Near the bottom of the page:
> > "Because the Lion OS can only be purchased from the Mac App Store,
> > you'll need to have Snow Leopard running on your Mac. Snow Leopard is
> > the minimum requirement for running the Mac App Store application. If
> > you haven't upgraded to Snow Leopard, you should do so now, while the
> > product is still readily available."
> >
> > Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
> > NBC Today Show, New York
> >
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