Problems installing OSX Lion - new Mac Mini 2011

[jfrstr]

Hi!

I'm having major problem with my brand new Mac Mini.
I wanted to upgrade it right away after reading so many succeful upgrading reports on various forums so I bought a 120GB Intel 320 SSD disk and 2x4 GB of Kingston 1333mhz ram. I swapped the drives right away and idiotically used to original drive in a case to create an external installation USB-drive (my 4GB USB drives didn't work).
I then created a bootable USB-disk with the external original drive and tried to install but only get the circle with slash after selecting the drive in the "options" menu. If I remove the USB-drive I get a flashing folder icon. If start holding down Command + S I get a message saying that the "version of OSX is not supported on this platform".
I also tried using the Recovery Assistant HD to create a bootable recovery tool but that gives the same results.

In short:
I can't install OSX Lion on a brand new Mac Mini with upgraded HD and Ram. I don't have the original installation anymore. I should've cloned the original drive but I didn't.

Am I out of luck?

 

[shortcut3d]

Try internet recovery mode. That worked for me in the exact same scenario. Command + Option + R at the bong. Also make use you have a USB keyboard.

 

[jfrstr]

...aaand five minutes later I'm installing Lion. Can't believe I haven't stumbled over this after googling the problem the whole weekend. Thanks!

Yeah, it took me a while to realize that about the USB Keyboard too, had to drive by the office to find one of those old relics.

Huge thanks!

 

[shortcut3d]

...aaand five minutes later I'm installing Lion. Can't believe I haven't stumbled over this after googling the problem the whole weekend. Thanks!

Yeah, it took me a while to realize that about the USB Keyboard too, had to drive by the office to find one of those old relics.

Huge thanks!

Wireless keyboards with a dongle also work because they can pair without OSX.