Reinstall MacOS Lion 10.6 Without AppleID

reintall-macos-lion.md

Boot your laptop in Recovery Mode (cmd+R)

1. Open the Terminal and find the Apple_Boot Recovery HD.

# diskutil list
/dev/disk0
 #:                       TYPE NAME               SIZE       IDENTIFIER
 0:      GUID_partition_scheme                   *250.1 GB   disk0
 1:                        EFI                    209.7 MB   disk0s1
 2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD       249.2 GB   disk0s2
 3:      Apple_Boot Recovery HD                   650.0 MB   disk0s3

1. Mount the drive.

 # diskutil mount /dev/disk0s3
 Volume Recovery HD on /dev/disk0s3 mounted

1. Look for the new Volume and look for BaseSystem.dmg.

# ls /Volumes/Image\ Volume/com.apple.recovery.boot/BaseSystem.dmg

1. Mount the DMG from the command line or Finder.

# hdiutil attach /Volumes/Image\ Volume/com.apple.recovery.boot/BaseSystem.dmg

1. Insert your USB stick and open Disk Utility.
2. Format (Erase) your USB drive as Mac OS Extended Journaled.
3. Finally go to the Restore tab and drag the mounted volume Mac OSX Base System into the Source field and drag the USB volume into the Destination.
4. After a couple of minutes your USB drive with name Mac OS X Base System should be ready!
5. To boot from the USB drive select it as the StartUp Disk or hold down option key on boot and select it from the choice of bootable devices.