[Elecraft] K3 Utility and OS X Lion

[AB8XA]

Here's another happy Lion user who took maybe two days to get used all the new things. Although you can set many things, such as reverse scroll and Mail.app's appearance back to the way they used to be, I left them as is and got used to them. Now I'm glad I did. I even bought a Magic Trackpad for my Mac Pro.

The purpose of this post is to let you know you can create a bootable Lion install disk after the download, but before clicking "Continue" to start the installation, which deletes the installer from the Applications folder. Before clicking "Continue," go into the Applications folder, right-click on the Installer and select Show Package Contents. In the app package, go into the SharedSupport folder, and option-drag a copy of InstallESD.dmg to the Desktop. You can then burn that to a single-layer DVD with Disk Utility. I did this at work when I upgraded my Pro. It booted fine (although took a long time) on my MacBook Pro at home, where we're limited to 768k DSL.  The Lion license permits installation on any Mac you own or control. I paid for the download. Google "InstallESD.dmg" for this tip on many websites.

The install from download on the Pro was on a blank 1 TB disk and from the DVD on the MacBook Pro was an upgrade over Snow Leopard. Both worked with no problems. 

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Moe - AB8XA
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On Jul 23, 2011, at 5:30 AM, David Ferrington, M0XDF wrote:

> TidBITS tells use you can download Lion at an AppleStore too.