No, he advised about that. But I have no access to an Ethernet connection.
No access to high-speed Internet either, I assume? (And, by the way, the recovery partition you mentioned in your earlier post requires a high-speed Internet connection to do its thing.)
You might consider backing yourself up with an Apple issue OS X Lion Thumb Drive; they're available on eBay for a reasonable price.
Edit: Y'know, on second thought, maybe you ought to try to beat a thumb drive out of Apple! It's unimaginable that they didn't consider your circumstances as a down-the-road possibility when they stopped shipping install discs and began advising people to bother their friends, relatives, neighbors, and employers, and it would be interesting to see what, if any, plan they've got. (This is the precise situation I anticipated a coupl'a years ago, but it's our first opportunity to plum its depths.)
Go for it!
