I bought mountain lion iMac - need to buy mountain lion to download?

Hi,
I just bought a new iMac with 10.8 and have not yet turned it on. I was checking to see if I could create a USB install of Mountain Lion, just incase I needed to re-install if the data recovery folk can salvage a backup from my old Time Capsule - since I am on a proxy network. I find that in though I own an iMac with Mountain Lion I don't seem to own Mountain Lion on the App Store. Do I have to purchase it separately if I am not downloading it to the machine I putchased it on?
Sue H

Quondame wrote:
I thought from what the person who set up my network said that I had the sort of proxy setup that is specifically mentioned as preventing online installation.
Thanks, yes, that is possible. In that event you may wish to create your own external USB Recovery Disk as a convenience. To do that read OS X: About Recovery Disk Assistant
When you set up a new Mac it will ask if you want to transfer information from another Mac or "From a Time Machine or other disk" and ought to be self-explanatory. For a thorough description on that subject I recommend you peruse Apple Support Communities contributor Pondini's comprehensive guide: Using Setup Assistant on Mountain Lion or Lion
If you are impatient (who isn't) and you just want to use your new Mac right away, before you have access to your Time Capsule, that's OK, but just don't create an account on the new Mac with a name you will want to use permanently. In other words if the 2007 iMac's Time Capsule backup contains an account with the name "Sue" and that's the name you want to use, don't initially set up your new Mac with that name. For example, give it the name "Sue temp". Later, when you want to migrate from the Time Machine backup, you will use Migration Assistant - it's in your new Mac's Utilities folder. Select the user "Sue" from the Time Machine backup and it will create a new account on your new Mac with that name. You can then delete the "Sue temp" account.
Sorry if this description is so wordy. babowa would probably have said it more concisely.

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