Install Mountain Lion on Multiplie Macs (Different ID's)

I have a client who has 4 Macs, and I have one myself. I have downloaded and installed Mountain Lion via the app store with no issues and have reccommneded they upgrade also. Their boradband connectins isn't very good and I will only be onsite for a limited amount of time, so don't want to either kick of 4 *4Gb dowloads all at once (as this will kill their internet) or run them one after another as that will just take too long.
So I have a copy of the install file on my machine, I could used Air Drop or a Usb stick to to copy this onto their machines, however is this file assocciated with my Apple ID? I don't want to break the terms of my licence and they are more than happy to pay for their own copy with their own ID's. Is there a way of me being able to use my install file, but still get them to pay via the App store?

Log in to App store on other computer with the apple ID that Mountain Lion was purchased with.
Click on Purchases icon at top of page.
Download and install.
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Instal Mountain Lion on a mac book pro from october of 2008

Is it advisable to install mountain lion on my mac book pro, bought in october of 2008 (first generation aluminum body), or will it not work/work very slow?
An search on the internet gives different outcomes..
thank you!

JJDDSS wrote:
Is it advisable to install mountain lion on my mac book pro, bought in october of 2008
The date of purchase is not a reliable indicator that your Mac Book Pro meets the requirements for Mountain Lion.
Check out exact technical informaitons for supported models here:
http://www.apple.com/osx/specs/
Even if your computer meets the requirements for Mountain Lion doesn't necessarily mean it's advisable to do so. For example, if you rely on applications that are not compatible with Mountain Lion.
Matt

For some reason osx mountain lion has disappeared from my purchases and now when i want to install mountain lion on another mac with the same apple id it wants to charge me for the program even though i have already purchased it. what do i do?

for some reason osx mountain lion has disappeared from my purchases and now when i want to install mountain lion on another mac with the same apple id it wants to charge me for the program even though i have already purchased it. what do i do?

Open the Mac App Store on the other Mac and in the Quick Links sign into your account. See if the Mountain Lion purchase is among hidden apps in the iCloud area of your account info.

Can I install Mountain Lion in my Mac Pro

Can I install Mountain Lion in my Mac Pro? This is my main computer and i only wnt to move forward if I know that it is 100% compatible with OS 10.8. They tell you to look to see when it was built but there is no date that I can see. I'm pretty sure I got it in early 2008 ... Here's the Hardware overview, without the serial number:
Model Name:          Mac Pro
Model Identifier:          MacPro3,1
Processor Name:          Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed:          3.2 GHz
Number Of Processors:          2
Total Number Of Cores:          8
L2 Cache (per processor):          12 MB
Memory:          16 GB
Bus Speed:          1.6 GHz
Boot ROM Version:          MP31.006C.B05
SMC Version (system):          1.25f4
Serial Number (system):
Hardware UUID:          449CFA37-8EAE-5A08-9027-1236BC17C747
Thanks much.

Yes, you can.
Upgrading to Mountain Lion
To upgrade to Mountain Lion you must have Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or Lion installed. Purchase and download Mountain Lion from the App Store. Sign in using your Apple ID. Mountain Lion is $19.99 plus tax. The file is quite large, over 4 GBs, so allow some time to download. It would be preferable to use Ethernet because it is nearly four times faster than wireless.
     OS X Mountain Lion - System Requirements
       Macs that can be upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion
         1. iMac (Mid 2007 or newer) - Model Identifier 7,1 or later
         2. MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer) - Model Identifier 5,1 or later
         3. MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer) - Model Identifier 3,1 or later
         4. MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer) - Model Identifier 2,1 or later
         5. Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer) - Model Identifier 3,1 or later
         6. Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer) - Model Identifier 3,1 or later
         7. Xserve (Early 2009) - Model Identifier 3,1 or later
To find the model identifier open System Profiler in the Utilities folder. It's displayed in the panel on the right.
     Are my applications compatible?
         See App Compatibility Table - RoaringApps.
     For a complete How-To introduction from Apple see Upgrade to OS X Mountain Lion.

How do you install mountain lion on additional macs?

How do you install Mountain Lion on additional Macs?

Log in to App store on other computer with the apple ID that Mountain Lion was purchased with.
Click on Purchases icon at top of page.
Download and install.
R

My wifi is very slow after installing mountain lion on my Mac book pro

My wifi is very very slow after installing mountain lion on my MacBook pro.
What can I do?

Ha ha, I misread that as "My wife is very slow after installing mountain lion on my Mac book pro"
BTW on my MBPro (late 2009 with max RAM) Mountain Lion runs very well with no slowing down.

Brand new Mac, had to erase drive through disk utility as time machine back up failed. Now disk utility only has the option to install Mountain Lion which my Mac won't allow. Anyone any ideas as my Mac won't load anything up but disc utility!

Brand new Mac, had to erase drive through disk utility as time machine back up failed on initial setup, USB cable popped out Now can only access disk utility as won't load to log in screen. The only has the option in disc utility is to re-install Mountain Lion which my Mac won't allow or loading another time machine back up but after an hour of it processing, that didn't resolve the issue either! The time machine back up is the latest back up of my Mac Book Pro which was using OS X Maverix. I'm guessing I'm going to have to take my Mac to the store but that would be a hassle so does anyone have any ideas?

Follow this guide using another Mac.
Insert your newly created Mavericks USB into you Mac, press the power button and then hold down 'option,' until it gives you an option to boot from the USB. You will then be able to erase the internal disk with Disk Utility and reinstall Mavericks straight after.
After that you should be able to use Migration Assistant to restore your applications and user data.

After installing Mountain Lion on my Mac I have no Internet. Safari doesn't work.

After install Mountain Lion on my Mac I don't have Internet. Do not know what has happened.

Try a PRAM reset and an SMC reset.

HT4854 How can I load Mountain Lion to multiple Macs

How can I load Mountain Lion to multiple Macs without downloading the huge 4Gb file to each machine?

I've never done that, but I don't see why it wouldn't. There is no verification or authentication keys in the installer.
If you need 20+ licenses*, then you might take a look at the volume licensing: http://www.apple.com/mac/volume-licensing/
It describes the same process I described.
* I think 20 is the minimum. Not sure, though.

Installed Mountain lion on my Mac book pro. Now My IRONKEY flash drive is not launching.

Installed Mountain lion on my Mac book pro late 2011. After that my IRONKEY flash drive is not launching. Before it was launching OK.The flash drive has updated software.

You have some other problem with your boot drive that has corrupted data backed up to the TimeMacine drive.
My advice is to boot into each operating system and manually backup just your Users files each to separate regular external drives (no Timemachine or backup software) and disconnect.
Make a note of any serial numbers, emails, address book contacts, export bookmarks etc. that isn't typically in your users folders data.
You might be able to Winclone 3 the Windows as a whole thing as it's appearing not to have issues but it's your MacintoshHD partition that is so that will have to be rebuilt from scratch.
Most commonly used backup methods
If your OS X parititon doesn't boot, you can use this to recover files.
Create a data recovery/undelete external boot drive
Without any further detail about your machine I can't advise specifically what to do, but it involves using Disk Utility to Zero Erase (move slider one spot to the right or in 10.6 using Security Option) the ENTIRE boot drive and reformatting, then installing OSX fresh and then setting up BootCamp again.
If you wish to switch your boot drive for something better, this is a good time to do this.
Install/upgrade RAM or storage drive in Mac's
If your machine is capable of Internet Recovery, then use that, then upgrade.
If your machine came with 10.6 or earlier, then use the 10.6 install disks and work up from there.
Erase, formatting, OS X installs on Mac's

How do I Install Mountain Lion on a Mac with 2 Drives

Good day ALL,
I am upgrading my Mac mini to add a second hard drive (solid state). After the HD install is complete I plan to re-install Mountain Lion and transfer my Applications, Files, etc from my backup. I am very comfortable with installing Mountian Lion on the solid state drive and making it the bootbale drive, my questions are:
1. It is a 120G soloid state hard drive, so I only plan to use it for the OSX system, Library and Applications. Should I include other files?
2. I plan to use my 750G SATA drive for the Users. How do I set up the User Folder archive on this drive? Do I just move it?
3. Then how do I ensure the User Folder on my backup, gets retored on the right drive?
Thanks

GreyWullf wrote:
Good day ALL,
I am upgrading my Mac mini to add a second hard drive (solid state). After the HD install is complete I plan to re-install Mountain Lion and transfer my Applications, Files, etc from my backup. I am very comfortable with installing Mountian Lion on the solid state drive and making it the bootbale drive, my questions are:
1. It is a 120G soloid state hard drive, so I only plan to use it for the OSX system, Library and Applications. Should I include other files?
2. I plan to use my 750G SATA drive for the Users. How do I set up the User Folder archive on this drive? Do I just move it?
3. Then how do I ensure the User Folder on my backup, gets retored on the right drive?
Thanks
Regarding 1:
$ cd /Users. sudo ditto myname /Volumes/TimeMachine/myname copies everything in $HOME to non-TM backup.
Ensured latest SSD firmware up to date.
Clean install of ML to SSD from 8GB USB stick created by Lion Diskmaker.
$ cd /Users. sudo ditto /Volumes/TimeMachine/myname myname (see part 2 for /Users on another drive)
Added latest Xcode and command-line tools. Added VirtualBox 4.1.20. Put the 65GB VirtualBoxVMs folder on the second drive. Edited the ~/Library/Virtualbox/VirtualBox.xml file for the new mount points. Beware that many SSD (including Vertex) warn not to exceed 50% drive capacity or they will invoke slower drive controller algorithm. After some clean-up and re-arrangement, I have 98GB free on this SSD. It sings.
Files that are heavily accessed/shared by users would be consideration for the SSD
Regarding 2:
If you have sufficient external storage, back-up your pre-ML /Users either with ditto as I did, or with TM, somewhere other than the 750GB drive.
Use DiskUtility and repartition the 750 as one (or more) GUID HFS+Journaled partitions depending on planned usage.
Reverse the back-up to put your user(s) on the 750GB drive
In System Preferences > Users & Groups, unlock, then right mouse button click on individual user names. Advanced options ... will appear. For Home directory, Choose ... the particular mount point for individual user accounts now on the 750GB drive. Done.
Regarding 3:
Because you have moved individual user accounts from the internal drive where your last TM backup occurred before ML installation, TimeMachine will not understand (as far as I know), the new /Volumes/750GB/User/you home directory location that you just changed in #2. Another reason I used ditto(1).
If you do not want Spotlight to index that 750GB drive, you need to inform Spotlight Preferences > Privacy to exclude the drive.
Hope this helps.
PS: Darn advanced editor eating bullet formatting!!
Message was edited by: VikingOSX

How to Install Mountain Lion on a mac Without any software

My issue is that I have a MacBook air. I lost everything that came with it. I don't have the CD for the software. Not knowing I needed the CD to install the software (because on my imac i never needed to), I restored my macbook to factory settings. When I tried to turn it on again, it said I needed to install mountain lion. I tried but it said I haven't bought the mountain lion with that apple id. So I did exactly that. I bought the mountain lion software with that apple id. The payment was confirmed and I received an e-mail with the info and the access key or something. I went to the website and it says my order is complete. Except that when I come back to my computer and type that same apple I.D. It says mountain lion wasn't bought with that I.d. But I had just done that.
So what could to install mountain lion on a computer that currently doesn't have any softwares intalled? Why is it saying I didn't buy it when I just did and the status here says it's complete?

The redemption code you received is used to download Mountain Lion the from the App Store.
Open the App Store. Select either Featured, Top Charts, or Categories at the top of that window then click Redeem under Quick Links on the right.
Reinstalling to factory settings does install OS X.

Just installed Mountain Lion, and my Mac won't boot correctly. What should I do?

So I stupidly decided to "upgrade" to Mountain Lion this evening. I downloaded ML, installed it, and now whenever I try to boot my Mac I can't get anywhere. The apple logo comes up and the spinning wheel below it starts up, but then it stops and restarts itself over and over again. I can boot in Safe Mode and I have verified the disk and the permissions (there were no issues.) Any suggestions on how to get it to boot normally? If it helps, I have a 2011 Macbook with 8GBs of RAM. I did have Snow Leopard before I tried upgrading to Mountain Lion.
Also, on a side note, I have my original install DVDs that came with my Macbook... if nothing else works, can I use these to revert back to Snow Leopard? I don't care if I have to clear my entire computer, I have everything I need backed up (and not through Time Machine. I just have the files I want.)

Have you checked that all your apps are compatible with Mountain Lion? Check that the apps are supported > http://www.roaringapps.com If you have apps that aren't supported, start in safe mode and uninstall them. Then, restart and see if Mountain Lion starts properly.
Another thing you can do is to reinstall OS X again. To do it, hold Command and R keys while your computer is starting and reinstall OS X.
xSarabean wrote:
Also, on a side note, I have my original install DVDs that came with my Macbook... if nothing else works, can I use these to revert back to Snow Leopard?
Of course. You have to erase the hard drive and install Snow Leopard on your hard disk, but first try to solve the problem with Mountain Lion

Purchased MacBood Air. Want to install Mountain Lion to our MAC. How do you do that?

I purchased a MAcBook Air, and want to install the OSX Mountain Lion that came with it to my MAC. How do I do that?

You have to purchase Mountain Lion for the other Mac. That's because the Mountain Lion license that comes with the MacBook Air only allows you to install it in this MacBook Air.
In your other Mac, follow these steps to upgrade to Mountain Lion > http://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade Note that, if you have 10.5 or 10.4, you will have to upgrade to Snow Leopard if it's supported > http://support.apple.com/kb/sp575
Before upgrading, make a backup of your files and check that your apps are compatible > http://www.roaringapps.com

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How do I get the App Store on my Mac so I can download Mountain Lion?

Actually, More than anything I need to get the App Store BACK onto my computer. I know how to get Mountain Lion from there.

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