#HOW TO INSTALL MAC OS X 10.6 DISC INSTALL#
#HOW TO INSTALL MAC OS X 10.6 DISC FULL#
#HOW TO INSTALL MAC OS X 10.6 DISC PRO#

I can then boot the intended 'target' machine using one of these devices and use Disk Utility to restore the 'virgin' 10.6.8 disk image to the machine's hard drive. Obviously, you need something like a 16GB flash drive or SDHC card. Finally, I copied the original disk image (as a. Then I went through the personalization with each one. I 'restored' this image to a few destinations-a toolkit, of sorts-a USB hard drive, FireWire HD, USB flash drive, and even a SDHC card. My method (and I will freely admit this was not my original idea) is to use a disk image of a 10.6.8 working HD that has not yet been through the personalization. Like the original poster, I've found a number of machines that require a Snow Leopard installer higher than what may be available (since the owners of those machines have invariably lost their discs and/or have bricked their optical drives). You can boot any ready for Snow Leopard Mac with this Installer. I had problems getting the Backup utility in Disk Utility to do this. When the Disk Utility is done, use SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the modified 10.6.7 Installer to the 8 gig keychain drive. Choose the GUID partition choice and close the window. Now click Partition, chose 1 Partition, give it a name and click the Options button. Find the drive on the left side of the Disk Utility window and click on it.

Open Disk Utility and plug in an 8 gig thumb drive.

Check the 'copy all' box when the Finder warns you that the files already exist.

#HOW TO INSTALL MAC OS X 10.6 DISC INSTALL#

We do this because the retail installation script won't install the 10.6.7 printer packages. Replace the existing OSInstall.mpkg file with the one from the retail disk plus copy over all the printer related Installer packages. Open another Finder window, and navigate to the same place in the 10.6.7 Installer.This file in the 10.6.7 Installer is where the checking is done to see if it's installing to the 'correct' computer. One of these package files is OSInstall.mpkg which is the set of instructions for the Installer.Insert a 10.6.0 or 10.6.3 OSX retail installation disk in your DVD drive and use the Finder to open the disk to system/Installation/Packages/.To reverse this, rerun with FALSE instead of TRUE and killall Finder again.open Terminal and type or copy and paste the following line:Дefaults write AppleShowAllFiles TRUE.

Version 10.6.6 might work, but I haven't tried it.

#HOW TO INSTALL MAC OS X 10.6 DISC PRO#

Use Disk Utility to make a read/write DMG of a 10.6.7 install disk for a MacBook Pro or iMac.

We are are going to unlock a 10.6.7 DVD and make it a universal Installer. Version 10.6.7 was the last version released on DVD, but the DVDs were locked to specific machines. Early 2011 MacBook Pros fall in this category. If you have an Apple computer made after the Core 2 Duos, the 10.6.3 retail disk may not boot, and the 10.6.0 version won't boot at all.

#HOW TO INSTALL MAC OS X 10.6 DISC FULL#

Why do we need this? Because Apple quit releasing full retail versions of Snow Leopard with 10.6.3.

How to install mac os x 10.6 disc