After tutorials Part 1 & Part 2 with InstaDMG which deal with doing a basic OSX Mountain Lion 10.8 build and then introducing a user account and clearing the Set Up Assistants on boot, it’s time to tweak some preferences on OSX 10.8 for the first time boot, includin such as computer name, network, time zone …
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Secure Remote SSH Connection with no passwords OSX 10.8 and Linux
How to generate public and private keys for SSH on Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and then share that public key on another device and have it so that no password is prompted for a secure connection to a remote computer. First thing that you need to do on your OSX machine is to …
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Create image of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 with Local User Account using InstaDMG
Part 2 – InstaDMG Tutorial on the basics of creating an image with OSX Mountain Lion 10.8. Please refer to Part 1 to get familiar with the basics of creating a simple ‘out of the box’ InstaDMG image of OSX 10.8. Moving on from the initial image created with InstaDMG which will boot the Mac …
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How to make a bootable OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion Disc or Drive from the downloaded Mountain Lion.app
Make a bootable image copy of OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion after downloading the App from the store but before installing on your drive. Copy the image to a local drive or make a bootable external disk or DVD. After downloading the Mountain Lion.App from the store aka “Install Mac OS X Mountain Lion”, find …
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Make a Bootable USB Drive of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion from the Recovery Hard Drive
On every OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion there is a hidden partition to enable a method for Mountain Lion OS to be reinstalled on the machine, it is known as the Recovery Partition or drive and is 650mb in size. If you bought a new machine from Apple you have OS X 10.8 already installed …
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Is Yours Good Enough to take on the Mountain?
Apple will release their new operating system OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion on July 25th 2012. This is a faster development cycle than normal, but the upgrade is not as drastic in terms of getting used to a completely new OS, more like the move from Leopard to Snow Leopard. What they are doing is …
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Can’t download the additional components needed to install Mac OS X
An installation error occurs sometimes for when upgrading from OS X Snow Leopard to OS X Lion “Can’t download the additional components needed to install Mac OS X” – Check your network configuration as the install needs to pull down software over the internet. But the network configuration is OK.! Check that Software Update can …
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Easiest Way to Make an Image or USB bootable Copy of of OSX Lion 10.7
Without a doubt the easiest way to make a copy, clone or image of your Mac OSX Lion 10.7 computer that you can boot from, is using a product called Carbon Copy Cloner, using this application is straightforward and avoids any work in the Terminal and been around for a long time and is simply …
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