Dennis,
If you do a clean install on a blank drive from a machine running Lion it download the installer to the target drive and does the complete clean install on that drive.
No Snow Leopard required. I know that because I just did it today.
Marcel
On 14/06/2012, at 5:38 PM, Dennis Degan wrote:
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> I previously wrote:
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>> You can do this IF you have Snow Leopard installed. The 10.7
> installer requires SL for the Lion upgrade to run.
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> On Jun 13, 2012, at 7:16 PM, Job ter Burg (L2B) wrote:
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>> 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
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> I say:
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> 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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