Now you can go back to the installer screen and click the Continue. I copied it to an external hard drive (the same one I used for Time Machine Backups). Right-click on the Lion download file, and select Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. Navigate to /Applications in the Finder and then either burn to DVD, copy to a USB stick or an external hard drive the application named Install Mac OS X Lion. Maybe you could share exactly what MacBook Pro version this is.and we can verify what macOS versions are compatible with it (if you don't already know). Also, if you’ve renamed the Lion installerfor example, I added (10.7.3) to the name of mine to indicate that it installs OS X 10.7. Open a Finder window and navigate to /Applications/Install Mac OS X Lion. Do you REALLY need to install macOS 10.7 Lion on this older MacBook Pro.or will a slightly newer macOS work too? If you can't get a macOS installed via Recovery.then the 2nd & very common route to go is make a bootable USB thumb drive macOS installer (the macOS version is up to you.as long as that version is compatible with this MacBook Pro). Thus Lion & Mountain Lion should be available for free.Īnyways.

This used to be an issue doing a macOS reinstall on really old Apple computers (the solution was users still needed to purchase these macOS versions many years later).īut according to Wikipedia.as of last year (June, 2021).Lion & Mountain Lion were finally made freely available for all users. macOS 10.7 'Lion' was one of the last macOS versions users had to purchase (10.8 Mountain Lion was the last pay-for macOS). View Tom Lions profile on LinkedIn, the worlds largest professional community.