{"id":7644,"date":"2012-02-16T15:22:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T23:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=7644"},"modified":"2012-02-16T15:22:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T23:22:24","slug":"preparing-for-os-x-mountain-lion-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2012\/02\/16\/preparing-for-os-x-mountain-lion-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for OS X Mountain Lion Installation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has just announced the availability of <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/technologies\/mountain-lion\/\" target=\"_blank\">OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview<\/a>. For those who are eager to download and install this Developer Preview should proceed with caution. Without breaking any NDA&#8217;s we can safely assume:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It comes with delicious bugs and incomplete features.<\/li>\n<li>It is not ready as your production machine.<\/li>\n<li>Some of the applications might not work.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you want to install OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview, you might want to consider the following steps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do not upgrade any of your Snow Leopard or Lion systems. Starting with fresh install is preferable.<\/li>\n<li>Use a dedicated hard drive for Mountain Lion installation.<\/li>\n<li>Create the OS X Mountain Lion installation media using DVD or USB flash drive from the InstallESD.dmg (Show Package Contents on &#8220;Install OS X Mountain Lion Preview 1&#8221; then go to &#8220;ContentsShared Support&#8221;).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to report any bugs you find to Apple at <a href=\"http:\/\/bugreporter.apple.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bugreporter.apple.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/mountain-lion-hero.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"mountain-lion-hero\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/mountain-lion-hero.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has just announced the availability of OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview. For those who are eager to download and install this Developer Preview should proceed with caution. Without breaking any NDA&#8217;s we can safely assume: It comes with delicious bugs and incomplete features. It is not ready as your production machine. Some of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2012\/02\/16\/preparing-for-os-x-mountain-lion-installation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Preparing for OS X Mountain Lion Installation.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[858,2091,2229,2511,936,3039],"class_list":["post-7644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-developer-preview","tag-mountain-lion","tag-os-x","tag-resources","tag-tech","tag-troubleshooting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-1Zi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}