(image credit: Dennis Novak/Getty Images )The quick version goes like this: Boot into the Snow Leopard installer, format the hard drive you want to install Snow Leopard to (go to Utilities -> Disk Utility, then click on the drive, select. Funny idea: go to an Apple Store with an 8 GB or higher USB stick, buy Snow Leopard. Can you access another Mac to do this If so, in Disk Utility select the drive (not the volume) and click the New Image button on the toolbar to save a DMG as a DVD/CD Master. You need to back up the entire hybrid disk (at least for 10.6). There is a thread that discusses using IsoBuster to create an image.
Make A Bootable Snow Leopard Usb For Hackintosh Without A Upgrade To LionThis article shows you how to create the macOS installer on Windows 10.I wrestled with this for a bit. The official OS X Lion USB Thumb Drive is $69 before tax (ouch), and like a good student of tonymacx86, you want an all-in-one bootable USB thumb drive with everything you need to set up Lion and maintain it (à la UniBeast).Clover EFI Bootloader can boot OS X, Windows, and Linux on Mac or PC with UEFI or. Like me, you don’t want to pay for two operating systems when you’re only interested in the fresh new hotness Lion has to offer. You’re eager to install Lion on your hackintosh but it requires purchasing and installing Snow Leopard, only to then purchase and upgrade to Lion(?). R.It’s quite the conundrum. The normal way you would do it is get OS X installed first and then use boot camp (or other EFI boot management tools) to set up the machine to boot Windows 7 for installation.Here’s a little guide on how to do it while clinging to your subjective ethics. Personally, this wouldn’t have been possible with Silvia, but once I had Trinity up and running with a trial copy of Windows 7 Enterprise, I had a machine with the specs to get it done. Yes, yes, that should do it. And since all I had were Windows systems, I needed some google inspiration…What a great discovery! Run Snow Leopard in a virtual environment in Windows and use it to create the UniBeast USB thumb drive. You kinda have to for the files we need. VirtualBox software (freebie) from the Oracle website, and the VM VirtualBox Extension PackIf you haven’t already, head over to tonymacx86.com and register for an account. (If you built one of Tony’s CustoMac Minis, you’ve got the power) Maybe you didn’t bother with an optical drive because a certain someone convinced you it was a dead format. It’d be kinda nice if we knew someone with a Snow Leopard retail DVD…I know what you’re thinking: Why not just burn a Snow Leopard DVD and run it on my hackintosh? You could, but then you will have tainted it with sullied software. Need help with that? Lifehacker has you covered. Now, “acquire” a clean Snow Leopard ISO. No, none of these work in Windows but just copy them to your USB drive. Set up VirtualBox, and also install the Extension Pack. Be sure to get the MultiBeast pack intended for Snow Leopard. On the downloads page, grab the UniBeast, iBoot, and MultiBeast packs. Back on the boot screen, hit F5 to refresh. When you get to the boot screen, swap the VirtualBox CD drive from the iBoot ISO to the Snow Leopard ISO (Hit right Ctrl+Home: Devices> CD/DVD Devices). Snow Leopard on a hackintosh kinda sucks without one, and then you have to format the drive, go through lengthy reboot cycles, find a DSDT file for your motherboard and tweak it only to do it all over again in Lion… yada yada yada.Anyhoo, once that’s “acquired”, head over to VirtualBox and add the iBoot ISO to the VirtualBox CD drive (Settings> Storage> IDE Controller). ![]() Of note, it took close to an hour for the utility to create my UniBeast USB.Voilà. If you’re looking for a guide to installing Lion on your hackintosh, tonymacx86 has that covered here, and lifehacker also has that covered here. Keep in mind that you’ll need to have your USB drive mounted in VirtualBox as before: Hit right Ctrl+Home: Devices> USB Devices> *your thumb drive*. Now run the Unibeast creator using the “Mac App Store ‘Install Mac OS X Lion’ App” option. Make sure it’s in the Applications folder. Once it downloads, open it, but don’t install it. ![]() (How to triple-boot OS X, Windows 7, and Ubuntu!) (waypastwarranty.wordpress.com) —Trinity: A Personal Computer with a Personality Disorder. —Trinity: One machine to rule them all… Mac… Windows… Linux (waypastwarranty.wordpress.com) Torrent illustrator for macEditorial: Apple’s officially over the optical drive, for better or worse (engadget.
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