*** The Official OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 Thread ***

I was on a fresh install of Lion prior to upgrading to ML. I'd not reformatted for over a year before hand. Made a massive difference to the speed of the machine.
 
My initial install of Lion was an upgrade and then I decided to do a fresh install and the speed increase was certainly noticable.
 
Is taking a Time Machine backup, then wiping and doing an install from USB, but picking the Time Machine to restore stuff considered clean or would that be no different to an "in place" upgrade?

I have not installed Snow Leopard or Lion for a long time, but I seem to recall you are offered various options on what you want to restore from the Time Machine (i.e. apps and/or files and/or settings).

The other alternative (which I think I did about 1 year ago) was do a full clean install and then plug in time machine disk and drag and drop back stuff.


rp2000
 
Think i'm going to download ML when it's released, looks promising. One question though, is it possible to do a fresh install on a HHD that is connected via a usb caddie? Or does it have to be on the HDD which has your OSX on?
 
rp2000 said:
Is taking a Time Machine backup, then wiping and doing an install from USB, but picking the Time Machine to restore stuff considered clean or would that be no different to an "in place" upgrade?

I have not installed Snow Leopard or Lion for a long time, but I seem to recall you are offered various options on what you want to restore from the Time Machine (i.e. apps and/or files and/or settings).

The other alternative (which I think I did about 1 year ago) was do a full clean install and then plug in time machine disk and drag and drop back stuff.


rp2000
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I'd also be interested in knowing this as well as I'm in the same position.
 
Really looking fwd to this. To be fair Lion has been a brilliant OS - installed week of release never had to reinstall and can count on 1 hand the number of Kernal Panics. Hoping Mountain has as good if not better stability ;) Looking at the features it has added, yes Safari looks like it will surpass Chrome as my go to Browser as the bookmark sync looks like a winner..
 
I can agree with the stability of Lion; no kernel panics at all (installed the GM before it was even on the App Store), Safari has crashed once, and that was because of Flash.

Can't wait for ML now, the new features look pretty decent.
 
IS IT AVAILABLE YET?!?!?

I've got my USB stick ready, just a quick backup and this mac is getting formatted to welcome 10.8 in all its freshness!

Hurry up Wednesday!
 
AmTechFox said:
IS IT AVAILABLE YET?!?!?

I've got my USB stick ready, just a quick backup and this mac is getting formatted to welcome 10.8 in all its freshness!

Hurry up Wednesday!
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Not a huge need to do so unless the install is old :)

I can't wait either, just hope that they sort the Wi-Fi issues that currently plague the 2011 iMacs.
 
^^^^^ same build as the GM too, so I guess we'll find out late tomorrow or Wednesday about real release.

Already running the GM through my dev account on the iMac and MBA and have to say it's spot on, feels quicker than Lion and Airplay to the ATV it just sweet.
 
How would I go about installing Mountain Lion on a completely new hard drive?

I'm assuming its just a case of installing the drive and running the install from a Mountain Lion USB installer?
Would I need to do anything to the drive in Disk Utility before hand?
 
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