Re: Installing Mountain Lion on Partition (Probably a very basic question)

2013-04-28 Thread Chris Blouch
No problems asking. I don't recall whether pre-installed Lion on machines came with DVD installers or not. Did your machine come with some disks? If not, I think there are recipes for downloading the installer using the recovery process. CB On 4/28/13 8:38 PM, Des Delgadillo wrote: Thanks, C

Re: Installing Mountain Lion on Partition (Probably a very basic question)

2013-04-28 Thread Des Delgadillo
Thanks, Chris: I can grab that other external pretty easily. Would there be a way to come by a Lion installer? My Macbook came with Lion pre-installed so I wouldn't know where to get a hold of the installer. Is that a kosher question? Best, --Des -- You received this message because you are su

Re: Installing Mountain Lion on Partition (Probably a very basic question)

2013-04-27 Thread Chris Blouch
Dunno if it's worth the effort. You can get an external firewire 500GB drive for about $80 these days so if you're dropping the cash on Protools you might want to just set up lion on another drive when the time comes or flip flop internal and external at that point in time (backup internal to e

Re: Installing mountain lion

2012-07-25 Thread Harry Hogue
If I install Mountain Lion without backing up my system, will I lose all my data? I have VMWare fusion with Windows 7 and Kurzweil 1000 installed, and my external hard drive, which would hold all of this, still does not work at the moment. Any thoughts of what I should do? Thanks, Harry On

Re: Installing mountain lion

2012-07-25 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
If I upgrade from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion, without doing a reformat of my whole hard drive, will it wipe all my data, and I have to migrate it all back from a backup, or will all my stuff still be there? I'm still mired in old-school thinking I'm afraid. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AI

Re: Installing mountain lion

2012-07-25 Thread Les Kriegler
When you start the installation, VO will already be running, or at least it should be. You only have to enable it when you re-start. As to when to invoke VO, I waited about a minute or so, and tried it. If it doesn't work, just keep trying with Command F5 and it will give the familiar message

Re: Installing mountain lion

2012-07-25 Thread chris hallsworth
iCloud is great as should you need to restore your iOS device and no doubt your mac you can restore from a previous iCloud backup. - Original Message - From: "Kirsten Edmondson" To: Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 6:44 PM Subject: Re: Installing mountain lion Apparently vm

Re: Installing mountain lion

2012-07-25 Thread Alex Hall
Out of curiosity, has anyone done this with bootcamp? I have refit installed, so I press m for mac or w for windows when I push the power button. Should I press m after each reboot, or just leave it alone? I've managed to update to 10.7.2, .3, and .4 okay, but I've never done a full OS upgrade (my

Re: Installing mountain lion

2012-07-25 Thread Doug Lawlor
When your system reboots for the first time you can turn on VoiceOver at this point to get your percentage of your install progress and the approximate time left. When my system rebooted for the second time VoiceOver came up speaking. Doug On 2012-07-25, at 2:53 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > O

Re: Installing mountain lion

2012-07-25 Thread Kirsten Edmondson
Apparently vm is fine. I don't have iCloud set up, it scares me marginally more than iTunes with regard to loss and salvation of my data. Posts on list suggest its use is paramount. Should I set up iCloud before install? Is its use necessary? If I set it up, any tips for not losing everything

Re: Installing mountain lion

2012-07-25 Thread Eugenia Firth
Ok, Les, how do you know when it's ok to turn VoiceOver on when you're installing Mountain lion? I got my computer three days before Lion, and I did my install of Lion at the Apple store. I mean, until you get VoiceOver going, your computer has gone bye-bye for a while. Eugenia Firth gigifi...

Re: Installing mountain lion

2012-07-25 Thread Kirsten Edmondson
Cool, thanks. Is the twitter rumour I've heard correct?-vm fusion does not work ... I haven't yet sorted fusion. Was going to sort ml and then vm. But should I wait? Sent from my iPhone On 25 Jul 2012, at 16:35, Les Kriegler wrote: > Your question is a good one. Let me assure you that you

Re: Installing mountain lion

2012-07-25 Thread Les Kriegler
Your question is a good one. Let me assure you that you can do this. First, you should do a complete backup of all of your data. Also, make certain your programs are all up-to-date. You can check in the App Store by searching for the word Updates to see if there are any updates available. I