Downloading and installing Lion on a partion on iMac 2013 with Mountain Lion.
Hi ,
I have just partitioned my iMac 2013 thinking i would install my previously purchased Lion on the partiton. When i go to App Store to download the OS X Lion, it says " We could not complete your purchase. This version of Mac OSX 10.7 cannnot be installed on this computer." It does not even let me download Lion installer. Can anybody please provides some insight to download the isntaller and install on a separate partition. I am not understanding if it is telling me that the hardware of this iMac does not support Lion or if it cannot install because i already have a higher version of OS X installed on this machine?
Thanks in advance.
It's not possible to set it up without downloading it from a computer compatible with it.
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