How do i take mountain lion off pause

I started my download and I had to leave my office and now I am where there is wire less. Is there something I need to do to start the download again.
The Mountain Lion graphic icon is ghosting now and says "Paused".

Did you Wipe the drive of Mt Lion before you started the Snow Leopard install? If not that is what you have to do.
You can't install an older operating system over the top of a newer version.
Can you return the system bac to Snow Leopard? YES you can.
Boot the system from the Snow Leopard DVD and open Disk utility. Re-Partition the drive as ONE Partition. Then exit DU and start the install of SL.

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