It might be mentioned that the pkg format changed enough that you have to be running leopard to run the mpkg installer.I had first tried this from Tiger, but the installer won't open the new leopard install package.-P
If you're going the 'restore' route to image a machine to a known state, and don't want to wait to download and install all of the updates to keep your 10.6 machine up-to-date, then InstaDMG is for you. It's free. You give it your retail 10.6 disk, and it does all the work to create a minty-fresh up-to-date disk image that you apply to a compatible Mac.
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WoodHeBe, you are my hero!!!!!for weeks i've been struggling to find a solution for my crashing MacBook Pro mid 2010, and my last resort was to roll back to the original OS - snow leopard, however because i did not have the install CD, no image i downloaded off the web worked for me - i almost gave up.well, thanks again.
Begin Rant....My homeschool coop has recently started a lego robotics program, and was looking for several laptops to simply run the lego robotics program which requires OSX 10.6 or higher. I had an old Macbook 4,1 laying around that I thought I would donate; just needs a new hard drive and a software update. New hard drive arrived from Amazon and will have soon have a clean OSX install. Fumbling around on the internet, it seems that the 10.7 is the highest OSX version that is compatible with my Macbook 4,1. Already spent $50 for the hard drive, and Apple wants $20 for Lion. Well....HMMMM.....Ok, I guess I can spend $20 for Lion. $20 to apple and the authentication code arrived in my inbox. Just simply go to the App Store and download Lion, Right? Wrong! Lion won't download to any of my newer machines because they are all running High Sierra. HMMMMM....Lets install the original 10.5.8 software and download from there. Wrong! 10.5.8 doesn't have an App Store,. Call Apple for Help....We're sorry sir, but your Macbook 4,1 is considered obsolete, and no we cannot refund your $20 for 10.7 (And no it doesn't matter how many tens of thousands of dollars you have spent on Imacs, Macbooks, Ipads, and Iphones, We're not going out of our way to help you.) Well Apple, I have a hard time believing that the majority of those purchasing OSX 10.7 are running at least 10.6.8. I'm also betting that most of us trying to install something as obsolete as 10.7 are wanting a clean install (Yes I realize they are probably getting 10.7 from somewhere else, or using Linux or windows). But seriously, why do you have 10.7 for sale on your website? How many machines are out there that you can actually download it? Only those running 10.6.8? Why buy if your already running 10.7? I'm assuming it won't download on anything higher? Big disappointment Apple! End Rant!
The last version of OS X compatible with your Mac is OS X Lion 10.7.5. I assume that you have not purchased Lion from the Apple App Store and therefore can not download a copy. The path to store the Mac from scratch would be as follows.
You probably could install 32 bit Windows 10. The 64 bit version would require a memory upgrade to at least 2 GB. The drivers can be downloaded from this Apple website. I was able to install 64 bit Windows 10 on a 2007 iMac using the 32 bit Windows 7 drivers. You can download and try Windows 10 without a purchase, but to keep using requires purchasing a license. IMO, Windows probably would run to slow to justify the purchase of a license.
As you may noticed, the apple app store denies the installation of the OS X upgrade caused by the lack of hardware compatibility. But we want to download the installer anyways. A possible solution is to run the download enabler tool. You can find it at the following place Mavericks_download_enabler. Extracting this zip file and running the executable with admin privileges disables the hardware check for the mavericks download in the app store. After reboot you should be able to click install. After giving an Apple-ID (which do not requires a credit card id) you should start the installation. This first downloads the installer (5.4GB) and afterwards give you the first installation slide. At this point you can cancel the installation. The install package resides in the application folder.
As mentioned by tiamo in this forum there exists an EFI 64bit to 32bit wrapper. You have to download the "boot.zip" file from the forum above and replace the boot.efi (which is content of the zip file) with the boot.efi files located on your bootable usb drive at:
Most older macOS installers are available directly from Apple's Support Downloads website, which gives you the full combo installer, rather than the smaller version available through System Preferences or the App Store. However, you may need to download the installer from the App Store for newer versions, like macOS Monterey.
Speaking of Terminal, Armin Briegel has written on his Scripting OS X blog that the softwareupdate command has a new option in Catalina that lets you download the full installer for a specific version of macOS. This seems to work with versions of 10.14 Mojave and 10.13 High Sierra, but nothing older.
Is there a way to see when the signing certificates expire? I thought I knew how, but when I use that procedure it shows the Mojave and Catalina installers I just downloaded expiring in April of 2021 (which is better than last Thursday, but still only 1.5 years away.)
When I try to get the High Sierra or Mojave installers, the link takes me to a page where the link only takes me to the app store where those installers do not appear anywhere that I can see. The links for El Capitan, Sierra, and Yosemite got me to a page where I could download a dmg so those seem to work.
As others have noted High Sierra and Mojave are obtained via the App Store. I am still using El Capitan but had older copies of High Sierra and Mojave stored on my computer for future consideration. The App Store wanted to open these copies so I had to trash them before the updated copies would download.
In the High Sierra App Store, I get a download button for my purchases. It does not show up in a search, which is where I would get the GET button. I played around with the option, ctrl and command buttons, but no option to get the link.
The day the TidBITS article appeared I tried downloading the installers and had problems downloading the ones from the Mac App Store. I reported the screwup of the missing archived macOS installers to a senior AppleCare advisor. Sure enough, he, too could not download them from the Mac App Store. He agreed it was screwed up and reported it to engineering.
I got them all to download, except High Sierra. On the app store page for HS I got an Open button, even though I had unmounted my archive volume that contained the HS installer. So I used the macOS High Sierra Patcher tool as you directed, getting the installer download instruction from the Tools menu. Great app. High Sierra was them downloaded to my specified location. So now I have updated apps for all the macOS X installers in your list. However, this was the only one, besides Mojave, that downloaded the app. The other links downloaded dmg copies, which do not contain the usual installer app. So I retained the apps for Mojave, El Capitan and Yosemite.
That just indicates that you still have an older copy of the installer squirreled away somewhere on your boot drive. The App Store is very good at knowing this, so you might want to spend a bit of time trying to locate and trash it. That may well be why the one you downloaded was then moved to trash.
Apple has no advice on how to do this, nor have I seen any here or elsewhere. Pre-Sierra systems cannot be re-downloaded from the App Store with the new certificate. (But I got a full installer.) Maybe you managed to create a bootable installer yourself from the new El Capitan?
Anyone having luck with downloading the full 6GB Mojave installer from the App Store? On one machine I only get a 22MB stub installer. On another machine I was able to download the full 6GB version but the installer app reports to be damaged. I re-downloaded it a few more times with the same results.
I had exactly the same thing happen to me despite downloading a brand new Mojave installer. Then I realized, the problem is launching the installer off an external HDD. As soon as I moved it back onto my internal boot SSD, it launched just fine.
If you do not have access to an active Snow Leopard installation or a Time Machine backup of a Snow Leopard installation, then you can use the Snow Leopard installation DVD to install Front Row. First you will need to download the package management tool Pacifist so you can extract just the files you need from the Snow Leopard installer. Then open the OS X installer disc with the program (choose this from the program's File menu), and follow these directions:
Locate the "GhostScript xx.xx" link with the highest "xx.xx" version number - it's usually near the top of the page - and click on it. This will start the download of the GhostScript PKG (Package Installer). How the download actually happens is dependant on your browser and system set-up, and thus outside the scope of this article.
Once the download is complete, open the folder it was downloaded to (this is usually "Downloads" within your own Home folder), then double-click on the Scribus DMG file to open it. A window will open showing the Scribus application icon.
The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. They modify Unix software so that it compiles and runs on Mac OS X ("port" it) and make it available for download as a coherent distribution.
I'd like to install gcc to Mac OS X Leopard, and compile some software from source using MacPorts. As has suggested, I've registered as an Apple developer. Now I have to download the Xcode developer tools, but it seems to be enormous. Is such a big download (3.5GB or 1GB) really necessary just for gcc and some header files (mostly for console applications)? Is there a smaller download (possibly on some other site) which would work? Did I find the proper download (Xcode Developer Tools), as required by the MacPorts website? 2ff7e9595c
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