Re: Bootable Flash Drive for 10.7 problems

From	"M. John Matlaw" <mjlaw@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Bootable Flash Drive for 10.7 problems
Date	2012-08-20 23:10 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<k0uu7e$m7r$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References	<k0uadp$hiu$1@dont-email.me> <slrnk35g3l.22io.g.kreme@mbp55.local>

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On 8/20/12 6:55 PM, Lewis wrote:
> In message <k0uadp$hiu$1@dont-email.me>
>    M. John Matlaw <mjlaw@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> As per
>> http://macs.about.com/od/macoperatingsystems/ss/Create-A-Bootable-Flash-Drive-With-Os-X-Lion-Installer.htm
>>    I'm trying to create a bootable installer for 10.7 on a flash drive.
>> Staple's had a PNY 8gb Attache flash drive on sale and I picked up a
>> couple of them.  Got as far as the restore instruction in DU but at the
>> end there's a   Restore Failure   Could not restore - Cannot allocate
>> memory  error message .
>
> Were you able to reformat the USB thumb drive as GUID successfully?
>
>> I'm wondering if my problem means that the PNY is crap or if my problem
>> is elsewhere.
>
> Quite possible it's the thumb drive. I have had cheap thumb drives that
> I can't use to boot with.
>
The problem was indeed during reformat in DU.  I had noticed something 
but didn't read it.  When I went back and went through the partition 
step again I saw the note

This partition will not be modified.
Size: 7.75 GB
Available space: 2.35 GB

Don't know why this is happening but I'm thinking I should probably just 
return it.  Unless someone has an idea of what's going on and how to 
correct it.  Thanks

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Bootable Flash Drive for 10.7 problems "M. John Matlaw" <mjlaw@invalid.invalid> - 2012-08-20 17:32 -0400
  Re: Bootable Flash Drive for 10.7 problems nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2012-08-20 16:48 -0600
  Re: Bootable Flash Drive for 10.7 problems Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2012-08-20 22:55 +0000
    Re: Bootable Flash Drive for 10.7 problems "M. John Matlaw" <mjlaw@invalid.invalid> - 2012-08-20 23:10 -0400
      Re: Bootable Flash Drive for 10.7 problems me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2012-08-21 04:15 +0000
        Re: Bootable Flash Drive for 10.7 problems "M. John Matlaw" <mjlaw@invalid.invalid> - 2012-08-21 05:17 -0400
          Re: Bootable Flash Drive for 10.7 problems Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2012-08-21 14:29 +0000
            Re: Bootable Flash Drive for 10.7 problems me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2012-08-22 05:43 +0000
      Re: Bootable Flash Drive for 10.7 problems "M. John Matlaw" <mjlaw@invalid.invalid> - 2012-08-24 13:49 -0400
  Re: Bootable Flash Drive for 10.7 problems nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2012-08-25 06:06 -0600
    Re: Bootable Flash Drive for 10.7 problems "M. John Matlaw" <mjlaw@invalid.invalid> - 2012-08-25 12:05 -0400

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