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Re: Bootable Flash Drive for 10.7 problems

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On 8/20/12 11:10 PM, M. John Matlaw wrote:
> 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
Further and more confusing developments.  Returned the flash drives to 
Staple's.  Picked up a Sony Microvault (8 gb).  Same problem.  Tried it 
out on my mbp 4,1 running 10.7.4.  No problem.  Back to the original 
MacMini 3,1 running 10.6.8.  Took it from the start.  Same problem. 
Tried it using DU on a partition of a drive attached to the MacMini 
that's running 10.7.4.  No problem.  Booted back to the internal drive 
on the MacMini, flash drive looks fine.  Proceeded with the instructions 
from the above mentioned create-a-bootable-flash-drive... site.  Made a 
copy of the .dmg file and put it on the desktop.  Fired up DU.  The 
flash drive still looks fine but the InstallESD.dmg file isn't showing 
up on the device list.

So now I've got two problems and one work around.  I'd still like to 
know why the MacMini running 10.6.8 has a problem partitioning the drive 
though it doesn't seem to have a problem with it if it's been 
partitioned on another system.
And what's going on with the .dmg file not showing up in DU.
I'm getting more and more confused and frustrated.  Any suggestions?

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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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