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Why No More Boot Discs?
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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1514469" data-attributes="member: 110816"><p>Lion was available on a USB flash drive, but Mountain Lion was never available as anything other than a digital download. Both Lion and Mountain Lion create a recovery partition that can be gotten into to repair a system and a do a network re-install of if need be..</p><p></p><p>The situation where this would not work is if you installing Lion/Mountain Lion on a brand new hard drive. But if you did buy either Lion/Mountain Lion at some point, there are numerous tutorials online about making a install flash drive or DVD from the installer.</p><p></p><p>Apple's recent elimination of optical drives from their notebooks and iMacs is a clear indication of how they perceive physical media.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1514469, member: 110816"] Lion was available on a USB flash drive, but Mountain Lion was never available as anything other than a digital download. Both Lion and Mountain Lion create a recovery partition that can be gotten into to repair a system and a do a network re-install of if need be.. The situation where this would not work is if you installing Lion/Mountain Lion on a brand new hard drive. But if you did buy either Lion/Mountain Lion at some point, there are numerous tutorials online about making a install flash drive or DVD from the installer. Apple's recent elimination of optical drives from their notebooks and iMacs is a clear indication of how they perceive physical media. [/QUOTE]
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