Apple Release Lion Recovery Assistant

in case a hard drive goes bang, but you still have to be prepared for it and can't just think of it as an after thought.

Lion Recovery Assistant

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Sad Professor

I suspect the people who are really going to need this won't use it. And those that do use it will have to wait several hours while Lion downloads all over again. Such a waste of bandwidth. If Apple want to treat the optical drive like it doesn't exist anymore, fine, but they should have thought this stuff through first. Burning the dmg inside the Lion installer to a DVD/USB stick is still the best option and I'd recommend that everyone does it.

yea, in fairness, apple made a proper balls of this part of the lion release.

only reason i posted this was because in the main Lion thread there were a
good few people who were after missing the opportunity to burn their own disk.
(i got to burn the disc 1st time round so i won't have to download again
but thankfully i haven't needed it yet )

And i reckon its better to have a disc pre burnt instead of waiting for the mac
to go tits up and then have the extra bother of having to then redowload Lion
on an another mac,

was there any news on when the 1st update is due?
if i remember right its usually about a month or so after the initial release
but there's so many issues with lion might it take longer?

Red Alert

I'm surprised Apple didn't try putting in a firmware-based boot image that could download the software from Apple. Basically it'd be a ROM or flash-based recovery partition that could go and grab the current image once you've got internet access.