Upgrade to Snow Leopard

**thunderclap82** · 08-28-2009 09:20 PM

I currently have OS X 10.5.8 (Retail version... Vanilla) installed on a Gigabyte Core i7 system and it's working flawlessly. I will be getting Snow Leopard (family pack) this weekend to install on my MacBook and I would like to install it on my Core i7 system too. Has anyone attempted and/or succeeded in upgrading Leopard to Snow Leopard on a Hackintosh system but running the SL installer? Does anyone foresee any problems doing this?

**icchansan** · 08-28-2009 10:27 PM

Here some useful links for snow

[How-To] Install Snow Leopard on a PC - InfiniteMac OSx86 Community

Snow Leopard 10A432 - InfiniteMac OSx86 Community <-- check docshadow signature

**aziatiklover** · 08-30-2009 09:02 AM

I have a question! Why would u get the family pack sl when u can install the single copy at 29 on both system? U know apple os leopard and sl don't have license key such as iLife 09 rite? Hope it will helps.

**thunderclap82** · 08-30-2009 05:52 PM

Originally Posted by aziatiklover

I have a question! Why would u get the family pack sl when u can install the single copy at 29 on both system? U know apple os leopard and sl don't have license key such as iLife 09 rite? Hope it will helps.

Because I'm honest.

**SaCleoCheater** · 09-03-2009 10:31 PM

It's almost Impossible to upgrade SL without running into problems.

Better yet, you will not need to.

**ouija** · 09-11-2009 09:17 PM

here's another link I found on installing Snow Leopard to PC: http://3rr0rists.com/macintosh/how-t...l-in-a-pc.html

Not sure how well it works, tried using the other method but get error durring installation, so going to try this method next and will post results.

**swaskey** · 09-12-2009 06:42 AM

just wanted to say thanks for the honesty thunderclap. i know i dont speak for apple, but if people rip off apple - they wont be able to afford to come out with the products they do, or have a level of customer service they hold now. i have no remorse using a pirated copy of windows, but i pay for everything apple i own.

apple's customer service is so good, i have a mbp 17" with every option you can add; the upgraded hires screen, 7200 rpm hd... Its 4 months out of warranty and the vid card had a prob. I talked to apple @ 4:30 in the afternoon, Tuesday August 18th. On wednesday, I had a prepaid, labeled shipping package to send my laptop in. By Monday the 24th I had my laptop back fixed, FREE OF CHARGE. Apple even paid for all overnight shipping & handling w/ insurance - just to keep an apple customer satisfied. How could anyone want to steal from a company that treats their patrons that well ???

**loc[a]lhost** · 09-12-2009 10:08 PM

I have successfully upgraded my 10.5.7 install to Snow Leopard, by booting the Snow Leopard installation from a USB stick, after I gave up on the OSInstall.mpkg method.
Everything works flawlessly.

Here are a couple of tips from my experience:
* DO NOT upgrade from your Leopard installation. Use the USB stick method.
* Remember to create Extensions.mkext in your Extras folder, using Kext Utility, or the command line tool kextcache. Otherwise you'll have kernel panics.
* Have an extra Leopard installation, on a separate hard drive, in case anything goes wrong.
* Make a backup before upgrading using Carbon Copy Cloner or similar. You may backup only the OS files - it should not take too much space. If the upgrade fails for any reason, you will always be able to restore and try again.
* First try installing SL onto another hard drive, and verify that it works.
* Prepare a USB stick that can boot both Snow Leopard and Leopard with Chameleon 2.0 RC3. Otherwise, prepare 2 USB sticks: One for Leopard and one for SL.