

You need to make a bootable installer because the ML installer itself won't run under El Capitan.

This requires that you have both the El Capitan installer as well as the Mountain Lion installer on your computer (at the paths indicated above, adjust the paths in the command if necessary) and that you have an HFS+ volume with the name 'Untitled' mounted (adjust the name in the command if necessary). Sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia -volume /Volumes/Untitled -applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mountain\ Lion.app -nointeraction If you ever wondered how to create a bootable OS X Mountain Lion installer under El Capitan, here is the Terminal command to do so:
