HT3910: Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard: How to Erase and Install
Learn about Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard: How to Erase and Install
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Dec 26, 2012 5:50 PM in response to sharronsussby Niel,The bundled applications disk is only part of a Mac's original software bundle. Retail packages don't contain it.
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Dec 27, 2012 2:46 AM in response to sharronsussby noondaywitch,★HelpfulThe missing applications are mainly iLife - GarageBand, iMovie, iPhoto, iDVD and iWeb.
You maybe able to reinstall these from your original grey disc 2
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Dec 27, 2012 3:05 AM in response to sharronsussby noondaywitch,I missed iTunes!
Also probably a trial version of MS Office and a 30-day iWork trial.
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Dec 27, 2012 8:35 AM in response to noondaywitchby sharronsuss,★HelpfulDo you mean my Tiger install disc 2 that came with MBP when I bought it before the dawn of time? (October 2007...)
I think I recently saw your username attached to a discussion thread on a related topic, with a tale of doing something exactly like that. Detailed instructions too. True?
I will go try & find it again and try harder to understand just what you did.
If inspiring a little hope is helpful, then this helped.
Sharron
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Dec 27, 2012 12:54 PM in response to sharronsussby Kurt Lang,Do you mean my Tiger install disc 2 that came with MBP when I bought it before the dawn of time? (October 2007...)
Yes, that one. The only way to get newer versions than what came with the Mac is to purchase them.
Insert Disk 2. You'll find an installer package named something like extra software, or bundled software. Double click that and it will present a screen of software you can install. Check the boxes on the ones you want.
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Dec 27, 2012 1:18 PM in response to Kurt Langby sharronsuss,So I can use the retail Snow Leopard install disc, followed by the Tiger applications disc?
Will the iLife applications be updatable via Apple Update? Are any of the Tiger bundled applications not supported by Snow Leopard? (Would they install anyway, even if they weren't going to work? I know that sounds paranoid but it has been a bad year for this MBP.)
This information is really helpful, but unfortunately I inadvertently gave my 2nd Helpful star to myself...sorry...
Sharron
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Dec 27, 2012 1:33 PM in response to sharronsussby Kurt Lang,So I can use the retail Snow Leopard install disc, followed by the Tiger applications disc?
Yes, since you'd only be installing the bundled apps, not Tiger over Snow Leopard.
Are any of the Tiger bundled applications not supported by Snow Leopard?
That's the part I'm not sure of. Since you are able to install Snow Leopard, you obviously have an Intel Mac, so the bundled apps should also be Intel code. Whether or not they'll run properly under SL is another matter. Can't really hurt to try, though I'd make a backup first, so you can get back to the same point if something really goes wrong. The worst that should happen is they won't run properly, or at all, but better safe than sorry.