The Essential Guide to OS X Lion    + Add a Comment  Ray Dittmer
About that Snow Leopard startup flashdrive. I purchased an iMac
recently with Lion installed. After grinding my gears a bit on
the migration of old data (I was running Tiger on a iMac G5) and
finding that only firewire migration would work, I solved that
problem. Since I did not begin this adventure expecting a Lion
install on my iMac, I needed a way to preserve my legacy app
data. I tried your solution of a Snow Leopard flash drive. No
go, Lion will no even let me boot from the Snow Leopard install
DVD. Apparently, if you buy a Mac with Lion installed, there is
no way to even revert to a previous OS on an external drive.
Help!   I can' read my old Netscape files with the Lion.  I
can't open any files that used Power PC applications in Lion
either.  IF, I had know that I could not read those files which
I access about every day, then I would not have downloaded Lion.
However, I did download Lion, so, I asked what Apple, the best
computer compa