From: Bill Pearce <bill@neoimagers.com>

Date: July 26, 2012 7:06:59 PM MDT

To: "Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com" <Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com>

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Mountain Lion compatibility

I bought VMware Fusion, and run things that way. It's only $49. You can set up as many virtual machines as you want. I tried to install OSX 10.6 in a VM, but the I7 processor doesn't support it. 

But I could install OSX 10.7 to its own VM. I'm running Windows 7 in its own VM as well, since I have to run some Astronomy programs that don't support the Mac OS. Pretty seamless too, and you don't need a Bootcamp partition. 

Bill

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On Jul 26, 2012, at 17:37, Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com> wrote:

Hi Chris;

That's the same procedure I used for Lion too - which did work.

The issue I read about :

http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/mountainlion/index.html#d26jul2012

was that the "InstallESD.dmg" would not mount for Mountain Lion. The  

fellow called Apple support and they were looking into it - saying it  

did not work currently.

He downloaded it a second time and got the same thing.

So I'm not sure  his system is unique or what the story is.

I'm sure the Cable companies are real pleased with several million  

people downloading 4.5+ gigabytes per computer - well if your on a  

limited data plan they are happy :)

TTYL..

Milton Aupperle

On 26-Jul-12, at 3:22 PM, Christianhumann.com wrote:

Hey Milton,

I found this link yesterday for creating an Install drive for Mountain

Lion.  Have not tried it myself yet, but it does call out a couple

snags and fixes :

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57479690-263/how-to-create-an-os-x-10.8-mountain-lion-install-drive/

FWIW,

Chris

On Jul 26, 2012, at 9:47 AM, milton_aupperle wrote:

Hi Folks;

I'm tied up with coding and don't have the time to clean up a

partition, back it up, copy Lion to it and then download install

Mountain Lion on to it. Maybe next week or so. I only have one Mac

left that Apple will "allow me" to install Mountain Lion on anyhow.

So compatibility of Astro IIDC and Mountain Lion is unknown. If

someone tries it out, let me know how you make out.

On a side note - apparently you can't make a back up .dmg install

copy of "Mountain Lion" like one could with  "Lion" (i.e if you

copied the "ESD.dmg" in the Lion installer app, you could use that

to install Lion from a Flash drive or DVD). You have to use your

Apple ID and the Apple Store for each Mac, download 4+ gigabytes to

each Mac your installing Mountain Lion on. I hope you and others all

have unlimited data plans.

And both Snow Leopard and Lion are no longer available on the Apple

Store - so your forced to either go Mountain Lion if you need to re-

install or buy a new Mac.

PS: And Apple still hasn't released their "ThunderBolt to FireWire

800" adapter yet that they promised in June for a July Release.

Maybe it's vaporware.

TTYL..

Milton Aupperle

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