beastacular Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 hello, i have successfully installed the iPC 10.5.6 final version on my core i7. no problems so far. i recently purchased an official copy of the snow leopard upgrade from apple (it was 30 bux) i wanted to avoid any problems in the future with updating, patching and whatnot. have not received cd yet but should be here any day. my question is can i just pop in the cd and upgrade to 10.6 or will ther be problems due to the fact that it is an intel even though 10.5 works ok? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/193336-upgrade-to-snow-leopard-question/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
52nd_state Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 hello, i have successfully installed the iPC 10.5.6 final version on my core i7. no problems so far. i recently purchased an official copy of the snow leopard upgrade from apple (it was 30 bux) i wanted to avoid any problems in the future with updating, patching and whatnot. have not received cd yet but should be here any day. my question is can i just pop in the cd and upgrade to 10.6 or will ther be problems due to the fact that it is an intel even though 10.5 works ok? i was thinking of doing the same. however it's likely that you'll need to make a clean install. so if you got everything working i dont think it's a good idea. you'll just have to reinstall all drivers and {censored} again. btw you'll have to use a bootloader anyway so forget "plug and play" so to speak. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/193336-upgrade-to-snow-leopard-question/#findComment-1306790 Share on other sites More sharing options...
beastacular Posted October 22, 2009 Author Share Posted October 22, 2009 i was thinking of doing the same. however it's likely that you'll need to make a clean install. so if you got everything working i dont think it's a good idea. you'll just have to reinstall all drivers and {censored} again. btw you'll have to use a bootloader anyway so forget "plug and play" so to speak. i thought there was no such thing as a clean 10.6 snow leopard install? i thought i had to have leopard installed regardless? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/193336-upgrade-to-snow-leopard-question/#findComment-1307015 Share on other sites More sharing options...
52nd_state Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 i thought there was no such thing as a clean 10.6 snow leopard install? i thought i had to have leopard installed regardless? you bought a legal copy. those dont have osx86 drivers so technically you do a clean install becouse all your leopard drivers will "dissapear". you cant just upgrade like any other mac or pc. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/193336-upgrade-to-snow-leopard-question/#findComment-1309130 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 Hahaha, yes you can. I've got three words for you: Chameleon Boot CD Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/193336-upgrade-to-snow-leopard-question/#findComment-1309151 Share on other sites More sharing options...
beastacular Posted October 27, 2009 Author Share Posted October 27, 2009 Hahaha, yes you can. I've got three words for you: Chameleon Boot CD i went on the chameleon website and they dont really discuss a clean 10.6 install. i was wondering if you could elaborate on that a lil more? thnx Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/193336-upgrade-to-snow-leopard-question/#findComment-1312445 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 What do you want to know? Roughly, the same steps that apply to installing retail Leopard apply when installing retail Snow Leopard. There is no difference. Snow Leopard may need a fix for the RTC device to prevent CMOS reset on reboot, in your DSDT. I did not need it. Otherwise, if you boot Snow Leopard in 32-bit mode, you can for the most part use the same kernel extensions you've been using with Leopard. Chameleon 2.0 RC3 comes with a handful of useful kernel extensions - a decrypter is not included. I use Netkas' FakeSMC. Obviously (and just like with Leopard) you'll need a functional OS X installation to prepare your Snow Leopard Chameleon boot CD in. You can use a real Mac, it doesn't have to be a Hackintosh. And it doesn't have to be running Snow Leopard. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/193336-upgrade-to-snow-leopard-question/#findComment-1317023 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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