yelloguy Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 I upgraded my SL macbook pro to Lion last night. Completely uneventful. Now I want to upgrade the hackint0sh I have (Dell Inspiron 530 with Nvidia 8600 GTS running SL 10.6.8 perfectly except for sleep). All the tutorials I am seeing are about doing a clean install. But that would take too long. I was wondering if anyone has successfully upgraded a snow leopard hack to Lion? Any tutorials? Or am I stuck doing a clean install and sucking up everything from my Time Machine backup? Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albert E Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 I upgraded my SL macbook pro to Lion last night. Completely uneventful. Now I want to upgrade the hackint0sh I have (Dell Inspiron 530 with Nvidia 8600 GTS running SL 10.6.8 perfectly except for sleep). All the tutorials I am seeing are about doing a clean install. But that would take too long. I was wondering if anyone has successfully upgraded a snow leopard hack to Lion? Any tutorials? Or am I stuck doing a clean install and sucking up everything from my Time Machine backup? Thanks in advance. Yes, you can install OS X Lion; it is a seamless upgrade. But to keep it safe (they say!); (1) Add another OS X partition on your drive (have enough space to clone your Snow Leopard partition). (2) Clone your working OS X Snow Leopard to the new partition. (3) Get OS Lion upgrade from App Store and upgrade OS X Lion to whichever partition you select. Tarahhhhh!, peanut butter sandwiches ... :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yelloguy Posted July 21, 2011 Author Share Posted July 21, 2011 Yes, you can install OS X Lion; it is a seamless upgrade. But to keep it safe (they say!); (1) Add another OS X partition on your drive (have enough space to clone your Snow Leopard partition). (2) Clone your working OS X Snow Leopard to the new partition. (3) Get OS Lion upgrade from App Store and upgrade OS X Lion to whichever partition you select. Tarahhhhh!, peanut butter sandwiches ... :-) Thanks E. So it is a simple upgrade like the macbook pro? I have a 500 GB hdd and snow leaopard has more than 400 GB in use (pictures and music, mostly) so cloning is not going to be possible. But I do have a Time Machine backup on external so, worst case, I will rebuild everything and suck the backup into Lion. I currently have Chameleon booting into SL and I think I installed a couple of kexts into E/E and I have a couple other extensions in the Chameleon boot loader partition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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