Why is Mountain Lion in "waiting" mode in my dock?

Why is Mountain Lion icon in "waiting" mode in my dock? Why is it not installing? I'm running a newer iMac with sufficient memory. I'm installing from Snow Leopard 10.6.8

Thanks for the advice. I selected cancel and restarted the process. It says it is downloading however, it disappeared and I chose to start the process again this a.m. I'm not sure whether or not it begins entirely again or carries on from before.  It seems like a long, drawn out process, doesn't it? I've noticed the feed is starting so I'll let it run this morning and monitor the process.

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    drwxrwxrwt@  4 root  admin  136  2 Aug 13:19 ..
    drwxrwxrwt@  3 root  wheel  102 31 Jul 11:54 .TemporaryItems
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       Volume Name:              Recovery HD
       Escaped with Unicode:     Recovery%FF%FE%20%00HD
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       Mount Point:              /Volumes/Recovery HD
       Escaped with Unicode:     /Volumes/Recovery%FF%FE%20%00HD
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       Read-Only Volume:         No
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       Whole:                    No
       Internal:                 Yes
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  • Mountain lion download wont start,installer in dock reads "waiting"

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  • Why is mountain lion not coming to my iMac?

    Hi
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    This is what Apple does, now.
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  • Why did Mountain Lion slow down my shut down and boot up time for my MacBook Pro?

    I had Snow Leopard, and not Lion.  My shut down time rose from about 5 seconds to 10-15 seconds.  My start up time also increased noticeabley.  Any reason why because I thought Mountain Lion was supposed to be faster.

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