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Installing Lion: Macworld Complete Guide
Installing Lion: What You Need To Know
How To Install Lion Over Leopard - Three Ways
How To Make A Bootable Lion Install Disc Or Drive
How To Create An OS X Lion Installation Disc
Recovery Options For Macs Running OS X Lion
RoaringApps - Application Compatibility For Mac OS X Lion
AirDrop Only Works on Certain Macs
OS X Lion: About Auto Save and Versions
Java for OS X Lion
OS X Lion: How To Remove Mac App Store Apps That Appear In Launchpad
Installing Lion: Macworld Complete Guide
Macworld.com has posted a series of articles on installing and upgrading to OS X 10.7 Lion. Macworld's Dan Frakes cautions that just because Lion is the easiest-to-install version of Mac OS X yet doesn't mean you should make the jump without any preparation, or that there are no important decisions to make along the way, and to help, Macworld put together a guide that they hope will make the transition painless for you, with articles covering the requirements for running the next big cat; the things you should do to get your Mac ready; and the purchase and download processes, walking you through the actual installation; recommending some post-install tasks; discussing upgrade challenges; and helping you decide if a "clean install" is for you, along with instructions for creating a bootable Lion installer disc or drive, as well as for installing Lion over Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5), provided you have the appropriate license to do so, plus a hands-on look at Lion's new recovery mode.
You can check it out at:
http://macw.us/pJZg4p
Installing Lion: What You Need To Know
Macworld's Dan Frakes says that for more than a decade, installing the latest major version of Mac OS X meant buying a disc and slipping it into your Mac's optical drive. No longer. Mac OS X 10.7 - better known as Lion - is available for direct download. In fact, currently only available only as a download from Apple's Mac App Store. He provides the details of installing Apples first-ever download-only OS.
However, first a prudent warning: Frakes notes that if you install Lion now, you'll be installing the very first release, and if the history of major revisions of Mac OS X are any indication, see the first update, containing a number of bug fixes, should appear within a few weeks, and he suggests, wisely, that if your Mac is mission-critical - ie: downtime is not an option for you - it might be best to hold off and wait for the inevitable Mac OS X 10.7.1. Good counsel.
However, if you're determined to be an early adopter, read on here:
http://macw.us/qw3rMn
How To Install Lion Over Leopard - Three Ways
Macworld's Dan Frakes, notes that one of the requirements for installing Lion is that you already have Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) version 10.6.6 or later installed, with the main practical reason for this requirement being that Lion is (currently) available only via the Mac App Store, which debuted in Mac OS X 10.6.6, so you'll need Snow Leopard just to purchase and download Lion.
However, once the Lion installer is in hand, the operative question is whether you can install it onto a Mac or a hard drive containing Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5). Frakes discusses the legal and technical aspects of Lion over Leopard installs for personal, non-commercial use, noting that there are some gray areas, and observes that while the letter of the law says you need to install Snow Leopard before installing Lion, the spirit of the law seems to be that a particular Mac just needs a license for Snow Leopard before you can install Lion on it. In other words, in his view, you should be well within your rights to install Lion on any of your computers for which you have a valid, current Snow Leopard license, even if you don't install Snow Leopard on it first, and as for technical obstacles, while the Lion installer refuses to install Lion onto a drive containing Leopard (10.5), it will, however, install onto a blank drive, so Lion clearly doesn't need any of Snow Leopard's files or settings, but, while the Lion installer will freely install Lion onto a blank drive, the installer itself must be run from within Snow Leopard or Lion.
However, there are ways.... three of them according to Frakes: the official way, the brute-force method, and the quick-but-techie way.
Instructions are offered for each.
You can check it out at:
http://macw.us/qbxQF2
How To Make A Bootable Lion Install Disc Or Drive
Macworld's Dan Frakes notes that lack of physical media is perhaps the biggest complaint about OS X 10.7 Lion's App Store-only distribution, as there are a good number of reasons you might want a bootable Lion installer, whether it be a DVD, a thumb drive, or an external hard drive. happily, its easy to create a bootable Lion-install volume from the Lion installer, and Frakes tells you how here:
http://macw.us/pPWyVf
How To Create An OS X Lion Installation Disc
MacFixIt's Topher Kessler says that the OS X 10.7 Lion installer you download to your Applications folder from the Mac App Store contains everything you need to burn yourself a boot image of the installer, and all you need to do is access this image and then either burn it to DVD or restore it to another bootable storage medium with at least 4GB free space.
While Apple announced yesterday that it will will be making Lion available on store-purchased USB drives for $69 sometime in the next couple of months, Kessler notes that this process is cheaper, will result in the same end product, and has more flexible options such as having the installer on DVD or an alternate drive volume.
For step-by-step guidance, see:
http://cnet.co/q3E60a
Recovery Options For Macs Running OS X Lion
MacFixIt's Topher Kessler says that with the release of OS X Lion, Apple has included a few options to perform both maintenance and recovery routines on your Mac. These include a local recovery partition that allows you to boot to your system and reinstall Lion and run tools like Disk Utility. In addition, Apple is now including an Internet recovery option for new Macs that allow them to reinstall Lion without the need for any local media.
For some tips and how-tos, see:
http://cnet.co/pwnYS5
How To Keep Snow Leopard When Upgrading To Lion
MacFixIt's Topher Kessler says that while OS X Lion's features and advancements make it an enticing installation, but unfortunately Apple is doing away with some key features that have maintained compatibility with some popular applications. Some of these, such as the lack of Java, can be remedied by installing support for them, but there's no workaround for others like Rosetta and support for 32-bit system extensions in the default 64-bit boot environment. And a number of applications will not run, as can be seen on the RoaringApps Lion compatibility database ( http://roaringapps.com/ ). As a result, he notes, it may still be useful to maintain for some users to maintain their current Snow Leopard installations, even if they would like to install Lion to take advantage of its features.
There are a couple of routes to take to run both Lion and Snow Leopard: virtualization and dual-booting.
You can check it out at:
http://cnet.co/nwPTFn
RoaringApps - Application Compatibility For Mac OS X Lion
If you're unsure whether a favorite or even mission-critical piece of application or utility software will run on OS X 10.7 Lion, RoaringApps brings you a collaborative wiki community to track, discuss and dissect application compatibility for Mac OS X Lion.
RoaringApps is also a great place to stumble across the next great addition to your dock, with hundreds of applications compiled into one simple table.
You can check it out at:
http://roaringapps.com/
AirDrop Only Works on Certain Macs
TidBits' Glenn Fleishman notes that OS X 10.7 Lion's new AirDrop feature lets you copy files between two computers without requiring an active Wi-Fi network, or that both machines be on the same network, and is quick, secure, and nifty, but only if you have the the right Mac, and that during Lion beta testing, it was clear that some Lion-capable Macs couldn't summon the right mojo to use AirDrop, which requires relatively recent Wi-Fi chips.
For the full report visit here:
http://tidbits.com/article/12365
OS X Lion: About Auto Save and Versions
Apple Support says:
Auto Save in OS X Lion saves during pauses in your work and, if you work continuously, it will save after 5 minutes. It saves in the background, so you can work without the distraction of having to remember to save, or being interrupted by progress bars.
Versions automatically records the history of a document as you create and make changes to it. OS X Lion automatically creates a new version of a document each time you open it and every hour while youre working on it. You can also create snapshots of a document whenever you like. With an interface similar to that of Time Machine, Versions shows you the current document next to a cascade of previous versions, allowing you to do side-by-side comparisons of your working document with past versions. You can restore entire past versions, or bring elements from past versions such as pictures or text into your working document.
To read more, click here.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4753
Java for OS X Lion
Java for OS X Lion installs Java SE 6 version 1.6.0_26. OS X Lion does not provide a Java runtime by default.
System Requirements
• OS X 10.7
For more information, visit:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1421
OS X Lion: How To Remove Mac App Store Apps That Appear In Launchpad
Apple Support says:
With Launchpad, you can easily remove apps purchased from the Mac App Store.
To remove a Mac App Store app that appears in Launchpad, follow these steps while you are logged in with an administrator account:
• Enter Launchpad.
• Click and hold on an icon until you see all icons jiggle.
• Click the "x" button in the upper-left of the Mac App Store app icon you want to delete.
• Note: If you do not see an "x" button, either the app is not from the Mac App Store or you are logged in as a standard user.
• Click "Delete" in the confirmation dialog to delete the app.
Tip: If you want to reinstall a deleted app, open Mac App Store, click the Purchases icon, then click on the "Install" button for the app.
For more information, visit:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4673
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