Mac Os Snow Leopard Installer Download
Juan Navarro
Trying to upgrade from leopard to snow leopard on my macbook, for some reason i think the install did not work (still says it is running on version 10.5.8) i am trying to upgrade to snow leopard so that i can move on to lion..Help!
After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
Not true. You just need a version that supports your Mac. In general, that means a version released after your Mac model was released. So for instance, any Mac that came with Leopard installed was released before Snow Leopard was, so any version of the Snow Leopard installer disk will work with it, as long as it meets the minimum system requirements for Snow Leopard.
Not sure why that is. Have the CS3 disc. Old mac pro running snow leopard. It DID WORK last year. Had to reinstall snow leopard due to some glitch and now CS3 won't install. AE CS4 works. Final Cut Studio 6 works. Just now CS3 (also flash encoder CS4 but I'm not using them anyway).
CS3's activation servers were taken offline. For a time they did offer a replacement non-activation copy with a new serial number, but that offer expired. Basically it can't be installed anymore. There is talk that CS4's activation servers are offline as well, so don't reinstall it. Adobe doesn't support the old software and that included maintaining the ageing servers used to activate it.
So I take it your answer is no. Why is it necessary to be online when installing my CS3 disc? Logic dictates all the information for the install is on the disc, not the internet. I can only guess that Adobe wants to see if you are trying to do something they don't want you to do.
Long time ago people preferred to pirate Ps by passing it around with the serial numbers. Starting with CS, online activation during install was introduced allowing a max of two installs for each serial number. There was a offline method, but it involved calling support using a challenge system, now long gone. The point was to verify you indeed had a license to use the software and to limit installs so the same number wasn't being used on 1000 computers. If successful it wrote a confirmation to your HDD so you would not need to keep doing this.
Being hijacked at home by the flu, this weekend I tried to update my current Leopard setup. I had tried it many times, but until now I haven't found a method to start the installation of the Snow Leopard DVD. Until now, all my setups have been done using the original Apple disc, and I was commited to find a solution to run Snow Leopard as vanilla as possible.
I haven't tried this guide on other systems, but I'll be testing it on a Gygabyte GA-G31M-S2L with a Core 2 Duo E6600 and GeForce 8400 GS, but I think this method could apply to any system capable of running the stock kernel.
Here's a desktop screenshot, showing the system profile with the version of Snow Leopard, the graphics section showing Core Image & Quartz Extreme support, and also a Geekbench run, throwing a not-so-bat 7128 points. You can click on the screenshot to show it in it's native resolution of 1680x1050 pixels.
I've been surprised by the performance of Snow Leopard. I've read a lot of positive comments but it's not until you test it in your own system that you can conclude. It's the same hardware and thus there isn't mre bruteforce, but the system run much more smoothly, and that's what's important in the final user experience, isn't it?
Before dealing with the real installation with the internal drives that had Leopard installed, I've done many tests with an external USB drive. I've used an old 80GB SATA drive attached to a Sharkoon QuickDeck case.
After many trials and errors, when I found the right combination that provided me with an stable setup, I detached the drive from the QuickDeck, labeled it and stored it as an emergency solution to restart a corrupted system, something that can happen quite easily if you plan to apply every patch from Apple.
Run System Update from the Apple menu and you'll get updates for the following software. You can download and apply them automatically or download and save them for later use. This is what I've done because I'll need them again in the test partition.
This is a comprehensive list of every option included in myHack. The texts are obtained from the installer and I've marked green the ones that I've kept, red the ones discarded and blue the ones that I've obtained from another source.
This will install Chameleon 2.0 RC3, PC EFI 10.5, myHack pfix v2.1.1 & a Snow Leopard port of lspci onto the selected volume. It will place a preconfigured com.apple.Boot.plist into /Extra by default. Be sure to further modify it as needed. This will also perform a test to determine if the selected volume is an installation device, if so it will install OSInstall.mpkg & OSInstall framework to enable installation on MBR partitioned devices automatically.
Overwrites above com.apple.Boot.plist with GraphicsEnabler = Y option. This will enable graphics acceleration on most Nvidia Graphics Cards & a few ATI Graphics Cards. NOTE: If this does not work at first try entering -pci1 in the chameleon boot prompt. Read installer documentation for more information.
This will place chocolate_kernel into / and modify the com.apple.Boot.plist to use it by default. This is required to run OS X on otherwise unsupported intel processors (Pentium4, i5, etc). It includes sse3emu for sse2 only processors but there have been reports of instability with some applications, it will not be enabled if your CPU has sse3 support however. This kernel will run most AMD systems as well but it does not include on the fly CPUID patching so if you intend to use this on an AMD system you will need to obtain a third party tool to patch your binaries. For a full explanation of what this kernel can and can not do and when it should or should not be used consult the myHack documentation online. NOTE: Do not use this kernel if you have a Core2 or i7 processor, this kernel has been reported to cause kernel panics on i7 processors and Core2 systems run better with a vanilla mach_kernel.
This will provide PATA (IDE) support for most systems. It will also allow many of you to run your SATA devices with AHCI disabled on most ICH6/7/8/9/10 based motherboards. NOTE: This AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext is a BETA KEXT for Snow Leopard, it has been reported to cause Kernel Panics for some users. The IOATAFamily.kext however, was recently compiled from patched 10.6 source and has no known bugs.
Disables the framebuffer kexts (NVDAResman.kext, ATIFramebuffer.kext, AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext) which have been known to cause kernel panics when booting to installation or post-installation environment that does not yet have functional graphics acceleration. [This is NOT required if you are using the GraphicsEnabler or a custom EFI Graphics String in your com.apple.Boot.plist]
Legacy AppleRTC.kext repackaged to function with Snow Leopard. This prevents the "CMOS Reset" error that is encountered on most motherboards running OSx86 10.6. IMPORTANT NOTE: This MUST be removed (and replaced by a dsdt CMOS fix) before booting to an x86_64 kernel.
Disables AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext - this extension is required until you have built a proper dsdt for your system. Without this or the dsdt your system will not boot (kernel panic). IMPORTANT NOTE: It is suggested that everyone use this kext for now even if your system runs fine without it. There is an unresolved issue with the way AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext handles HPET on non-apple hardware that causes the CPU to run much hotter than normal. [This is not required if you are running the "Chocolate" Kernel but it won't cause any problems to keep it.]
Adds Restart and Shutdown functionality for most systems that are using NullCPUPowerManagement.kext. [This is not required if you are running the "Chocolate" Kernel but it won't cause any problems to keep it.]
This kext was running fine with Snow Leopard 10.6.0, but after upgrading to 10.6.2 I got a kernel panic, as netkas says in its blog MacOSX 10.6.2 Released so I proceeded downloading the updated one for 10.6.2
I hope you find this guide useful. I've come across InsanelyMac many times so I think it's nice to contribute when you have success. I'm a spanish speaking person and so the screenshots are in spanish. I'll try to get them in english, although I think they are self explanatory.
I know that there are a lot of Snow Leopard guides in this forum, but this one is pretty straightforward, really easy to follow and it's generic, so if you follow it and choose the right kext for your motherboard you're going to get an install almost 100% vanilla, with an untouched system folder and just a bunch of kexts in the Extra folder.
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