How can I generate a mountain lion boot dvd for my 27" late 2012 iMac

baught the 27" late 2012 iMac and didn´t get any software dvd with it.
Due to the fact that I have the external DVD writer I would like to generate a bootable Mountain lion DVD for it.

First you will need to Downl;oad and Save the Mt Lion install files. They are not on the system as it is. you need to use the Recovery HD partition to do the download to an external drive and then when the system goes to Reboot to start the actual install of Mt Lion on that external you Disconnect that external so the install doesn't start.
Then once you boot back into the OS on the internal drive you Reconnect the external and use the program linked to in the above reply to Create a Mt Lion Install DVD or USB thumb drive.

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