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Hi all, This may be covered somewhere, but I wouldn’t know how to search it. I got a nice Macbook for a student. I did all the hardware rebuild, and it’s chiming and looking for something to boot to. I have an erased 60gig ssd waiting for an OS. Thats where I lost it. This unit shipped with OSX Lion. I searched, at least, 50 articles. They all say the same wrong thing. Download Lion OSX, open the dmg, and find supporting files, create boot media (or similar). This folder does not exist on Lion 7.0 to Lion 7.04. It isn’t there. Another group says restore to a USB from the dmg file, fails every time. Restore from image to USB. Fail. Out of ideas, even tried OSX disk maker, fails. I am trying to make this from the latest OS, Monterey. All I get is failures. I even tried creating a dvd, fails. What’s the magic combination, please? I give up after 2 weeks of trying. Thanks. Thom Update (12/05/2021)
No Shared Resources Folder.
Sadly your systems USB ports don’t offer the ability to boot your system from a USB thumb drive. You’ll need to create a bootable DVD disk or locate one on one of the marketplaces. Your system is limited to Lion OS-X 10.7.5 as the highest OS release. Between its limited RAM of 6 MB and slow SATA interface thats the best you can expect with the White Polycarbonate 2008 MacBooks. Here’s a link to the free version from Apple Mac OS X Lion Installer as they finally released it for free! And here’s the needed procedure to make the DVD Create a Bootable DVD Copy of OS X Lion Installer from another Mac system.
