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Chris J Witt Author

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Rosetta and Lion - Is there a solution?

I'm considering upgrading to Lion, mostly due to the fact it has drivers for Nvidia's 500 Series, so ATY_Init will be happy with it.

But, one problem... No rosetta, and a lot of the programs I use or test are not universal binary (Primarily Cocoa PPC or Carbon). So that raises the issue.

How would I go about getting Rosetta on to Lion? I'm assuming that it wouldn't be as simple as copying some Frameworks and Kexts... Do any solutions exist for this yet, like hacks or mods, or is it impossible? (Or too soon?)

Posted on Jul 21, 2011 2:30 AM

181 replies

Feb 16, 2014 7:26 PM in response to cruttis

cruttis wrote:

...When I find a suitable (used) comparable display, the iMac will be placed in storage after internal cleaning.

Before you do that, you can clone the SL drive to another HD in the Mac Pro and apply the combo 10.6.8 update to it before you boot from it, or since Mavericks likely won't let you do that while booted in 10.9.1, create a bootable SL USB flash drive with 10.6.8 on it, boot from that and apply the combo updater. Either way should customize the HD for use with the Mac Pro. Or, if you have the retail SL installer, just reinstall SL and update. Its the easiest way to keep all your SL/related software working without reinstallation.

Rosetta and Lion - Is there a solution?

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