Is it possible ro clean install Mountain Lion over Mavericks on a brand new mac mini

Is it possible to "clean Install" mountain lion over mavericks on a brand new mac mini

Actually evrything I can find states that the last mini to run SL was 2010.
It appears that the 2012 mini's shipped with Mountain Lion and later Mavericks. Link
Also why would the OP need a bootable SL installation media when they want to install ML?

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Will it be possible to clean install Mountain Lion?

Considering it is only going to be available on the Mac App store, will it be possible to clean install Mountain Lion?
Any speculation/inside knowledge would be great!
Ed

Edward McMahon wrote:
Considering it is only going to be available on the Mac App store, will it be possible to clean install Mountain Lion?
Any speculation/inside knowledge would be great!
Ed
Speculation is forbidden on this site. You did read the Terms Of Use before agreeing with them didn't you?
Pete

How do I install mountain lion over maverick

how do I install mountain lion over maverick

Before the install
Ensure your data (at least all Home folders) is backed up before you install. Hard disks can fail at any time so it is important to regularly backup to an external disk with Time Machine or a third party alternative. Inexperienced users should follow Apple's install advice but experienced users may prefer to do a clean install.
OS numbers and names
OS X 10.4.x - Tiger
OS X 10.5.x - Leopard
OS X 10.6.x - Snow Leopard
OS X 10.7.x - Lion
OS X 10.8.x - Mountain Lion
More about Macs
The Apple History site has specifications for every Mac ever produced: http://www.apple-history.com
Upgrade to Leopard
Those wishing to upgrade to Leopard should be aware that install disks can be expensive. Details: http://lowendmac.com/deals/best-os-x-leopard-prices.html Standard Leopard installers impose several hardware limitations including speed and RAM size but all these restrictions can be overcome. Google for details. Leopard works well at 500 MHz with 1 GB of RAM and many happy users have less than this.
Upgrade beyond Leopard
OSs beyond OS X 10.5.8 require an Intel processor. If in doubt click the apple at the top left of your screen and select 'About this Mac'. This will give you your OS number. Then click 'More Info' to see which processor you have. If it says PowerPC you cannot upgrade to Snow Leopard and above. If you have an Intel Mac it is well worth upgrading to Snow Leopard now and then considering other options after that. You can buy Snow Leopard here: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A
Upgrade to Lion
Information about upgrading Snow Leopard to Lion: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD256Z/A
Upgrade to Mountain Lion
Information about upgrading Snow Leopard or Lion to Mountain Lion: http://www.apple.com/osx/specs/
Important
Check that your Mac complies with any requirements.
If you are not in the US you should use the Change Country link at the bottom of Apple pages.

Is possible to re-install Mountain Lion after Mavericks issues?

My mac became vary unstable after upgrade. Tech support was helpful but there is more issues now then before. They had me safe mode to check any programs that cause boot failure, safe reair and then reinstall new operating system. Now when it boots Finder goes on a tangent. Keeps asking about do you want to quit last program. All programs that are on the Mac came from the App store. The Mac is 2012 model that ran flawless until upgrade.If I revert to Mountain Lion, will I loose anything that was install earlier? And one other thing, I Cloud wants to be involved in everthing.

To completely restore your system from a Time Machine backup boot OS X Recovery by holding the ⌘ and r keys (two fingers) while you start your Mac.
Once the Mac OS X Utilities screen appears, select Restore from Time Machine Backup.
Select the TM backup of your Mountain Lion system prior to upgrading - their backup dates and OS X versions will appear, so you will be looking for the most recent backup of your system when it was running OS X version 10.8.5.
When it completes, your Mac will restart and your previous system state will have been restored.

Why am I not able to download mountain lion 10.8.2 to my new Mac mini

I have just bought a Mac mini mainly for my photos ,videos etc. but I am unable to load them on until an iPhoto update is installed - that update requires 10.8.2. Which is not available for the Mac mini.
When will it be available
Thank you

Or here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1611

How can I wipe my hard drive and clean install Mountain Lion?

Hi I have a 21.5 inch mid 2011 iMac running Mountain Lion, I want to wipe my hard drive and clean install Mountain Lion. I dont want all my stuff back, just photos and music, the rest I'll reinstall my self. I also dont have a exteranl harddrive. only two USB's one 2 GB and the other 8 GB. How do I do this? And I dont want to pay for mountain lion again. Thanks!

I made my partition and am currently reinstalling mountain lion to put on my flash drive. I'm using Lion disk maker 2 thats compatible with mountain lion. I'm doing it right, correct?

I had iLife pre-installed on my aluminium Macbook 2009 with OSX Leopard on it. My hard drive broke but got most of the info off it and just installed snow Leopard on to a new drive and then downloaded and installed Mountain Lion over it. Now I don't have

I had iLife pre-installed on my aluminium Macbook 2009 with OSX Leopard on it. My hard drive broke but got most of the info off it and just installed snow Leopard on to a new drive and then downloaded and installed Mountain Lion over it. Now I don't have iLife anymore. How do I get it back?

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
Mac OS X doesn't come with iLife applications, so you have to install them manually after installing Mac OS X.
Insert the Applications disc or Mac OS X Install Disc 2 DVD and install iLfe applications. Then, open  > Software Update, and install the latest update. If you want, you can purchase iMovie, GarageBand and iPhoto in the App Store, so you will get the most recent version

I have just installed Mountain Lion over Snow Leopard, I now can't open Photoshop?

Hi everyone, I have just installed Mountain Lion over Snow Leopard. The installation went smooth and woks well. Now I find that Ican't open either Photoshop CS or Microsoft Word. I upgraded in order to install Lightroom 5, obviously there is now an incompatability, is there a work around?

If that is the original Photoshop CS, and Word 2004 or earlier, then they won't open because Lion and Mountain Lion do not support PowerPC apps. They must be Intel code. Snow Leopard could run them because it included Rosetta, a PowerPC to Intel (and back) interpreter.
You have a few options.
1) Go back to Snow Leopard.
2) Update your apps to compatible versions.
3) If you have Mountain Lion because newer apps require it then:
a) Install Snow Leopard Server (currently being sold by Apple for $20) in a VM such as Parallels, and then run your PPC apps in the VM.
b) Install Snow Leopard on a separate partition and boot to that version of OS X when you need to use those older apps.

I installed mountain lion over snow leopard and my macbook pro 13" taking time for login and logout,

i installed mountain lion over snow leopard and my macbook pro 13" taking time for login and logout.. any solution

Hi JoeyR. Well, according to this link at the Apple Store, OS X Moutain Lion became available in July and I downloaded it for $19.99. I figured I would do that before renewing my Norton security SW. Are we talking about the same thing?
http://www.apple.com/osx/

Cannot install windows 7 on brand new mac mini with 256 g sdd? Please help.

Cannot install windows 7 on brand new mac mini with 256 g sdd? Please help.
Have tried all tricks found on the net and followed every advice from apple support.
Still black screen with blinking curser when mini is rebooting following partitioning via bootcamp.
Very nice and fast mashine, wouldnt like to return it.
thanks allan

Is that an Apple SSD?
what model is it?
Is there a firmware update if non Apple?
Lion is not server version.
Windows is ? ISO or retail?
Google macmini Windows 7 SSD Apple Boot Camp

Can I install Windows XP SP1 with Bootcamp on my new Mac Mini 2011 i7 ?

Can I install Windows XP SP1 with Bootcamp on my new Mac Mini 2011 i7 ?

Baiscally if your Mini came with Lion Pre-installed new then No you can't use XP.
The Lion installed computers no longer support XP OR Vista via Apple's Boot Camp.
For one thing Apple only supported XP with SP2 in order to install it on pre Lion computers.
If the Mini had come pre-installed new with say 10.6 then you could have installed XP and still of been able to upgrade to Lion without any issues as you already have the drivers for XP installed. Lion only has the drivers for W7.

Clean installing mountain lion while keeping snow leopard?

Hello, I have a question...
I newly buy an SSD and at the same time I am thinking to upgrading to Mountain Lion... My operating system is snow leopard now.
I am thinking to download Mountain Lion and make a bootable flash disk. Then cleanly install it to the SSD. I dont want to touch my Macintosh HD... I am not a good technician... is it possible? I am doing this becuase if I dont like performance of mountaion lion, I will re-install the snow leopard to SSD... is it possible? Or After I boot from SSD, will I able to boot from again Macintosh HD (Snow leopard)??

When asked which drive or partition you want to install Mountain Lion to, pick one other than the partition containing Snow Leopard. The installer won't be deleted from the drive if the installation is done this way; it also won't interfere with the ability to boot Snow Leopard.
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Just clean installed Mountain Lion but MBP running extremely, extremely slow

Four days ago I opened up my MBP to find it running at a snail's pace. The change had happened overnight. Five days ago it was blazing fast, the next day every application took 20 minutes to start up, the rainbow circle would appear every time I would do the simplest of tasks; it was a nightmare.
First, I thought there was some sort of malware infecting my system, so I scanned the computer with Sophos, iAntivirus and ClamXav. This process took the better part of a day because everything was so slow. The results were all clear. Next, I decided to repair permissions, empty the cache, and use CCleaner. No improvement.
Then, I felt there was a problem with the OS I was running; Lion. So I decided to get Mountain Lion. I took the install DMG file and used Lion Diskmaker to create a USB install disk. I then booted with 'Option', erased Macintosh HD, and installed Mountain Lion. Installation was without any problems, except for the fact that it was quite slow and the Welcome steps also took a very long time to complete, with the rainbow circle constantly appearing.
This now leads me to believe that there might be some sort of hardware issue. If this is so, or if you suspect any other sort of issue, how would I go about identifying and fixing it? Please help, because even typing this problem out has taken me a long time due to the MBP constantly getting stuck and slow-ey.
P.S. I've also noticed that the longer I keep an application running, the smoother it seems to run, but the difference is very small.
MBP 13 inch, Late 2011
Processor: Intel Core i7 2.8 Ghz
Memory: 4GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB
Software: OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
On the memory slot page, both 2 GB memory slots are said to be in use, so i don't think any memory has been dislodged...
Here is my system log:
http://pastebin.com/EY34q5Bf

Make a "Genius" appointment at an Apple Store, or go to another authorized service center.
Back up all data on the internal drive(s) before you hand over your computer to anyone. There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional — ask if you need guidance.
If privacy is a concern, erase the data partition(s) with the option to write zeros* (do this only if you have at least two complete, independent backups, and you know how to restore to an empty drive from any of them.) Don’t erase the recovery partition, if present.
Keeping your confidential data secure during hardware repair
*An SSD doesn't need to be zeroed.

After installing mountain lion do i need to uninstall trend mac surfing and how

Hello, do i need to uninstall trend macro surfing since i installed mountain lion? If so how do I do that? Im new to macs all together. I dont know how to find the folder in the start up disk. Can any one advise me?
Thank you in advance for your time.
Sincerely,
teagrama

No, as its name suggests you only need to install the Server software on the server.
There is one possible case where it might be useful to install on an administrators computer as well (but definately not all users) which is that you can use the Server.app to 'remotely' control the real server. When you run Server.app it asks whether you want to control the 'local' server or a remote one.

Can I install Mountain Lion and Mavericks on same computer

Stupidly I installed Mavericks over Mountain Lion without checking whether Quark XPress 9.5.3.1 would work with Mavericks.
It won't.
I have re downloaded Mountain Lion and need to know whether I can run both on same computer - and how to do that - any help appreciated.
Thanks.

Lady on Macintosh wrote:
... There is NO way you can have Mountain Lion and Mavericks on the same computer.
Sure you can. Erase one of your partitions and install the OS of your choice on it. You can have as many operating systems on a Mac as you want. Use Startup Manager to select the OS you want to boot. Virtualization software is another option.
Both the Mavericks and Mountain Lion installers will permit you to select the partition on which it is to be installed.
If you don't tell us the errors that resulted from using Lion Disk Maker no one can begin to guess the reason, but no matter, you don't need the USB installer. Just use the App Store.
You can save the installer anywhere you like to use as often as you wish, so you don't have to download it each time.
It looks like this
You have to copy it before running the installer because the installer conveniently erases the 5+ GB file after the installer is finished with it.

Is it possible ro clean install Mountain Lion over Mavericks on a brand new mac mini

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