[OSX-Users] Re: OS X Mountain Lion (Gold Master) released

[Hugh Glaser]

Well I cracked and did it on my Air :-)
No problems at all so far.
Just started it off and went for a bath and it was done when I got back.
And I seem to have an extra more than 15G free space on my disc!

On 11 Jul 2012, at 13:38, Vladimiro Sassone <vs at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> Still waiting for the first negative report from early installers....
> 
> (from iPad)
> 
> On 11 Jul 2012, at 13:36, "Tim Chown" <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> I can confirm it's OK from eduroam using VPN (to staffvpn.ecs.soton.ac.uk).
>> 
>> Run the VPN first, then in the Finder do "Go.. connect to server", and then plug in cifs://software.ecs.soton.ac.uk/software, and then enter your ECS credentials to complete the drive mount.
>> 
>> If you're not VPNed correctly, you'll not get the login window to mount the drive.
>> 
>> Tim
>> 
>> On 11 Jul 2012, at 10:02, Neil White wrote:
>> 
>>> Jules,
>>> 
>>> I can't seem to get access to the software server from my new Mac Air. I
>>> can only get a signal for ECSWlan (not Eduroam from my office!!!), so I'm
>>> guessing that this is the issue? I have tried to vpn but that doesn't
>>> work. Any ideas?
>>> 
>>> Neil
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 10/07/2012 19:57, "Jules Field" <sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Folks,
>>>> 
>>>> The waiting is basically over.
>>>> Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8.0) has reached Gold Master status.
>>>> 
>>>> This means that Apple still have the right to change it before it is
>>>> released for download by the general public, but it's very rare that
>>>> anyone does change it due to the astronomical cost of doing so. They
>>>> start building it into new hardware coming off the production line
>>>> today, so any changes have to be applied to new Macs that are already in
>>>> their shrink-wrap on their way to the Apple Stores and distribution
>>>> centres around the world.
>>>> 
>>>> So if you want to download it, you can get it from
>>>>  cifs://software.ecs.soton.ac.uk/software
>>>> then look in the images/apple/Mountain Lion directory.
>>>> Copy the Gold Master installer application to your /Applications folder
>>>> and run it. It will upgrade your Mac and reboot again when it's finished.
>>>> 
>>>> Note: If you have installed the beta release of "Messages" at any time,
>>>> uninstall this and restart *before* you start installing Mountain Lion.
>>>> The option to uninstall it is in the "Messages" menu of the Messages
>>>> application.
>>>> 
>>>> Jules
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>>