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Mountain Lion install issue

Upon restart I am unable to install Mountain Lion.

Install OS X screen appears and


I receive a Message:

"To repair your disk using Disk Utilty, restore your computer from a Time Machine backup, or perform other taskes using utilities, choose an option from the Utilities menu."


There may not be enough HD space to perform install.


Is it possible to abort the installation and clear space on my HD?


Thanks in advance. Mark

PowerBook, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Aug 17, 2012 5:00 PM

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Posted on Aug 17, 2012 5:05 PM

yeah can you boot into the OS already installed? (Aborting won't hurt anything)

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Aug 17, 2012 5:07 PM in response to BackNine

Never been in this situation but you could try holding down the Option key at boot and that will bring up the Boot Menu screen. Slect the Macintosh HD as the boot device.


If that does't stop the installer from loading on reboot then the only other option would be to Reinstall Lion over the top of your current install.


you do that by holding down the Command+r key at reboot and that will load the Recovery HD from where you can reinstall Lion.

Mountain Lion install issue

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