Re: Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.6 FULL Retail DVD Bootable ISO
Nichole Wernett
Hi I have a "Mac OS X Install DVD Snow Leopard RETAIL.Dmg" and have been spending the last 2 days trying to make a bootable usb drive installer with it. I have followed numerous tutorials online with no luck. I was hoping some bright spark on here could help me out. The tutorials all say you need is InstallESD.dmg, show the package contents and extract the installer .dmg and do the rest in disk utility. The problem is I do not have that file just the .dmg I mentioned in the first line. Any ideas? I have a similar file with a Lion installer as well.
Enter the commands given below to create the USB flash drive installer. Here, an assumption is made that the ISO file name is snow leopard install.iso and the file resides in your Downloads folder. Also, an assumption is made that the identifier is disk2. If necessary, make the appropriate substitutions.
Enter the command given below to create the USB flash drive installer. Here, an assumption is made that the ISO file name is snow leopard install.iso and the file resides in your Downloads folder. If necessary, make the appropriate substitutions.
I couldn't find a method that worked as Disk Utility doesn't cooperate with OS 10.6 .dmg or .iso files, the instructions above might work on older versions of macOS, but I couldn't get it to work on Big Sur. But then I discovered that the same method I've been using to create bootable linux thumb drives works with the 10.6 .iso AND .dmg (depending on which one you have), and it's way easier and works on any operating system (mac/windows/linux).
As another user noted, the Balena Etcher method works great on a Mac. On my 2021 MacBook Pro (with M1 Pro chip), I created a bootable OS X Snow Leopard USB drive using a .DMG of Snow Leopard I downloaded on the internet. And then installed Snow Leopard on a 2009 MacBook Pro without a hiccup.
Basically I used the .dmg of OS X Snow Leopard Retail disk and made a bootable external hard disk which I ran along with I Boot. I have no AHCI mode in my BIOS Settings. At first everything seemed fine, I was able to see three options after I Boot loads: I Boot, Mac OS X Install DVD and Windows NTFS(As the windows has been already installed). I selected the Mac OS X Install DVD and tried to boot both normally as well as in verbose mode. In normal boot I saw a grey Apple logo screen with a loading disk which was Accompanied by a Blank Black screen and nothing happened after that..I tried waiting for atleast 15-20 minutes. While, In the verbose mode I could see a lot of code running through the screen which was again, accompanied by the same Black screen. I could not even start with installation which is very strange. Also I could post all the code that was running through my screen in verbose mode but I don't know how to record it or take a screenshot of it, I may type out the whole thing if required.
I manually downloaded and installed MacOSXUpdCombo10.6.8.dmg to update Snow leopard from 10.6 to 10.6.8 along with the [url=" -why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] tool. In the [url=" -why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] tool, I selected easy DSDT and system utilities. After the installation was finished I rebooted the computer and came across an I-Boot like boot loader with Mac OS X and Windows NTFS as options. On selecting Mac, A silver Apple logo appeared and then a Black screen(the point where I got stuck).
I'm so sorry, was a bit too busy in the last couple of days. Umm fine, I borrowed retail 10.6.3 .dmg from a friend and installed it to start over all again. I tried running that system information program on Snow Leopard but I couldn't screen shot it.(I don't know, the copy paste and the screenshot doesn't seem to work..All I get is a white screen :/)
10.6.3 is now working somehow(only with Nawcomm's disk, not even with Chameleon bootloader). I managed to get my wireless work with the help of some old drivers compatible with tiger and leopard, working flawlessly so far!
The biggest problem I have with clover right now is no-matter which settings I put it doesn't give me any useful info when I try to boot with my OSX 10.6 containing partition - it just freezes on its nice pretty but useless GUI selection screen. I believe with older versions it gave me some meaningless numbers at least.
Currently I'm trying to boot the OS X 10.6 installation DVD using it. Before that I tried to boot the already installed OS (I used MBR based boot-loader to install it before) with the same luck.
I already hate Clover so much - is there any alternative to it for the 10.6?
Like it's un-acceptable for me that Clover is ignoring my simplest request to acquire more information about why the heck it isn't booting Snow leopard.
And before anyone asks - I want to install Snow Leopard because it supports Rosetta and so I can run Power PC games on it.
I know this is an old thread but the op used a MacPro5,1 SMBIOS that was not supported in SL until 10.6.8 and 64 bit boot only (most retail installers are 10.6.3 and default to 32 bit booting - see this blog post for difficulties when trying to install SL on a real MacPro5,1).
i have a p4 3.2 ghz, with 1.5gb ram, 512 mb ati hd4350 and a super driver. I tried several time installing Mac OSX tiger and leopard with mac osx extended journaled partition but my computer won't boot after installation. Kindly guide me that what is missing.
The Mini was booted from an external USB drive. The system was installed on a MBP 2011/Thunderbolt, from the original installer. The same problems occured as SL was installed on a MBP 2007 - from a retail DVD to the USB drive, and updated to 10.6.8. System profiler has recognized all hardware in both cases.
You can install Snow Leopard on any Mac Mini with a Intel CPU. I'm not certain your preferred method of installation will work unless a retail copy of the OS was used on the MacBook Pro. Apple tends to be fussy that way. You can give it a try but no guarantees. With the cost of a Retail copy of Snow Leopard at $29 I would buy a copy and have it available for future needs. My .02--YMMV
Are you sure it works with a retail SL on this Mac? The new Mini comes with Lion. Based on the experience that usually only OSes upwards from the original system can be installed, I doubt that a regular installer DVD would work. Besides, the 2011 Mini does not even have a DVD drive.
Summary, as I have understood it: The author has installed Snow Leopard on the 2011 Lion Mac Mini. He has done this while booting from another Mac and connecting the Mini in firewire target mode. Then he has used a regular (retail?) SL DVD that he has bought before to install the system on the Lion Mac. He mentioned that he wasn't sure if Thunderbolt is working.
** Clone an existing Mac Mini (Model A1347) with Snow Leopard 10.6.8 installed (and all the extras) using SuperDuper! on to a USB Drive (Check -pocket.com/SuperDuper/ for instructions). SuperDuper! will make the Drive bootable.
I have a new MacMini 2.3 I5, 8GB RAM and 500GB HD and the Intel HD Graphics 3000. I purchased it for a special project to run all night on a regular basis. I need SL to run on my MacMini because the Nikon graphics software (Nikon Scan 4.0.3) I run for my heavy duty scanning projects (slides and negatives) wont run on Lion. I erased the disc, clean of Lion. I used my (2011) Macbook Pro 2.3GHz Intel i7 with 8GB of RAM as the server and started my MacMini in TDM and connected it via firewire wire 800 to my MacBook pro and loaded an old retail version of SL. It works until the re-start phase of the SL install so i waited and waited and when it restarts I eject the retail SL disc and insert my MacBook Pro SL disc so my macbook pro wont stall. This worked and I installed the update and I am now running 10.6.8 on both machines. Its not an easy fix and it is very time consuming...
Well, I'm stumped. I have a new (Nov 2011) i5 mac mini, that is giving me #@*@ with its refusal to output 5.1 sound via HDMI, and so I tried to install SL to a spare firewire disk on the mini from a remote-mounted retail SL 10.6 DVD (part no mc2232Z/A). The SL installer won't run from the mini - says it needs a different version of the application.
I made a bootable USB pendrive with Mac OS X Snow Leopard on it. On my Macbook Pro 2007, this USB pendrive booted and I was able to install Mac OS X from it. I have tried to do the same thing with a Macbook Pro Mid 2010. I powered on the computer, pressed Alt key, selected the pendrive from the Menu but then nothing happened.
If you made the bootable USB from the grey disks that came with your Macbook Pro 2007 then the issue is that those disks have builds that are specific to that model and are never guaranteed to work on other machines.
Essentially:
You will need to use iBoot to boot your machine (the most common way is to burn it onto a CD/DVD and boot from that, although, it is possible to create a bootable USB installer)
Insert the USB drive (before or after iBoot loads, it can be machine dependent)
Refresh iBoot (F5) to see the installer (essentially the same as you did for the above procedure)
Boot the installer (select and enter)
You may need to set specific boot options depending on your machine (for instance, I need to set busratio for my computer to boot the installer); look at the chameleon bootloader options.
After that, simply follow the installer instructions, and you should be good to go (there are some post install setup steps which you will need to be able to boot without iBoot)
Good luck with the setup.
Because of this, it's important to keep a bootable Snow Leopard install disk around if you have a Snow Leopard machine or manage them. However, there is no automatic way to create this drive on your Mac, so I'll show you how to do so in this tutorial.
Note: Before starting this tutorial, ensure that you have a USB drive with at least 8GB of storage as well as a Snow Leopard retail DVD or disk image. Grey DVDs that were included with a Mac at the time of purchase cannot be used to make USB boot drives as they do not include drivers for Macs other than the computer it was shipped with.