Can you make a bootable USB drive from the installer?  Boot of the USB and 
install from there.

Sandor

On Nov 17, 2015, at 7:50 PM, Quincey Morris 
<quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com> wrote:

> I want to install 10.8.5 somewhere, to debug an app compatibility issue on 
> that OS, but I can’t seem to figure out how.
> 
> I have an empty hard disk I can use, but there’s nothing installed on it. 
> I’ve got the Mountain Lion installer app from the App Store, but it won’t run 
> under El Capitan. (It’s “too old” to run.) So, without an older OS X to run 
> it on, I can’t get an older OS to run it on. (The Yosemite installer won’t 
> run either.)
> 
> What’s the right way to go about this?
> 
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