Trouble finding Mountain Lion OS.

JoeF1 · 4 Jan 2013 at 15:19

Hey guys

A mac mini is currently on 10.8 although we need it to be on 10.7.5 and i cant find the download anywhere. Its not even on the appstore.

Any ideas how i can roll this back?

Thanks.

uniQ · 4 Jan 2013 at 15:50

Do you mean Lion? Lion is 10.7 & Mountain Lion is 10.8

I think your only hope if you didn't create a copy or bootable backup is to boot into Recovery mode with CMD+R and hope there's a Snapshop of Lion for you to rollback too.

shine · 4 Jan 2013 at 16:19

If you previously purchased Lion you can still download from the App Store. Look under the purchased tab.

JoeF1 · 4 Jan 2013 at 16:40

Its a work mini, and i only just started. 10.8 is what come with the mac so it will be a fresh install.

I cant find it on the app store either

Iv tried to boot up but its just going to standard mountain lion.

shine · 4 Jan 2013 at 16:44

Apparently if you call Apple you can purchase Lion over the phone:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4156994?start=0&tstart=0

Dewotter · 4 Jan 2013 at 17:29

Guessing Lion won't have the drivers for the most recently released revision of the Mac Mini that came with Mountain Lion.

shine · 4 Jan 2013 at 17:33

That's a good point, I didn't think of that.

JoeF1 · 4 Jan 2013 at 21:54

RKO said:
Guessing Lion won't have the drivers for the most recently released revision of the Mac Mini that came with Mountain Lion.

Problem is, we use a printing software which can only be run on Lion. Looks like we may have to buy a older mac mini?

Memphis · 5 Jan 2013 at 22:29

Or get updated software.

dav3evans · 6 Jan 2013 at 01:20

If it's supplied with Mountain Lion out of the box, you'll likely have issues with installing Lion, unless that model started off with Lion. Be better off just picking up an older one.