[OSX-Users] Installing OS X Lion

[David Tarrant]

Here is a brief guide on how to do it, I recommend you read all of this prior to trying yourself.

You will require access to the ECS OS X developer program which Jules holds the credentials for.

1) Go to http://developer.apple.com and log into the "member center"

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2) Sign in using the ecsiphone2 at ecs.soton.ac.uk account (Jules has the password)

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3) Click the People tab, then select invitations and click the "invite a person to join our team" button.

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4) Fill in the form to get "Member" access to the Mac Developer program, iOS membership is optional. This will cause the invite to be sent out :)

5) Log out of the member center!!!

6) Check your email and click the invitation link. Note that to get access to Lion requires a App Store account, thus a credit card (it is free). So if you already have an app store account, sent the email to this email address in set (4).

7) Once you are all set up with an account, do to http://developer.apple.com and log in USING YOUR account. 

8) Click the mac dev center link

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7) Click the Lion tab
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8) Scroll down till you find the link to Download Lion and then follow the steps to get your redemption code

9) Once you have the redemption code, copy it and open the App Store from the dock (or applications folder)

10) Log into the App store using the SAME account your logged into the Dev Center using above.

11) Click the Redeem link in quick links

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12) Type in the code and Lion will start downloading.

13) Partition your hard disk to make a free space for Lion, DO NOT INSTALL IT OVER SNOW LEOPARD IT IS BUGGY! Follow the guide here (http://macs.about.com/od/applications/ss/diskutilitysize_3.htm) to help partition your hard disk, you need at least 20Gb of space for Lion I would recommend.  This uses disk utility, after you have a new partition set up as a JHFS+ (or whatever Mac OS X Journaled is) you can install Lion to this partition.

14) Install Lion from the Icon on the dock, making sure it installs to your new blank partition which you could have called Lion in order to help you.

15) Once done, to get back to Snow Leopard, hold down the option key (the one to the left of the command key which isn't space) and select Snow Leopard.

Enjoy

Dave T