#Amazon mac os x 10.6 snow leopard install

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.

#Amazon mac os x 10.6 snow leopard 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:ĭefaults write AppleShowAllFiles TRUE.Version 10.6.6 might work, but I haven't tried it. 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.

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