Cant Install Apple OS X Mountain Lion

I cant install OS X Mountain Lion. My Apple IMac 5,1 have got 2 GB ram and 2 GHz intel Core 2 Duo but i cant install it because he say its not compitable?!

If you check the compatibility list on the Tech Specs page from http://www.apple.com/osx you will see those machines Apple has said can use Mac OS X 10.8 if they have adequate ram and free hard drive space.
There really isn't away around that requirement.

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