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Q: Can I install Snow Leopard on the new Mac Mini

I would like to upgrade from my Mac Mini 2009 (2.26 Ghz with Snow Leopard) to the new Mac Mini just released which will come with Lion. However, I would prefer to run Snow Leopard. Are there any ways to install Snow Leopard on the new machine?

Mac Mini, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Jul 25, 2011 3:01 AM

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  • by josefromaldea del fresno,

    josefromaldea del fresno josefromaldea del fresno Apr 7, 2012 3:51 AM in response to newfoundglory
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    Apr 7, 2012 3:51 AM in response to newfoundglory

    Hi, Thanks again for the thread and all solutions given . As I replyed to dimoe , followed all instructions and offcoarse installed your pcg. resulting good bench scores but got popups , about six related to printer kext not being properly installed and couple related to io devices . Is there any fix for this ? No kernel panics or hangs, eaven bluetooth devices working properly , just popup alerts I mentioned.

    Thanks again ,

     

    Jose.

  • by dimoe,

    dimoe dimoe Apr 7, 2012 9:34 AM in response to josefromaldea del fresno
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    Apr 7, 2012 9:34 AM in response to josefromaldea del fresno

    The Kernels of the Printers (HP+Lexmark) showed up at me too.

    I just deleted them and everything was fine.

     

    (I think the printers were installed by newfoundglory and so they come to the installer package, even if nobody else uses them)

     

    kernel-popUps.png

  • by josefromaldea del fresno,

    josefromaldea del fresno josefromaldea del fresno Apr 7, 2012 1:13 PM in response to dimoe
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    Apr 7, 2012 1:13 PM in response to dimoe

    OK dimoe, thousand thanks again .

     

    Jose

  • by newfoundglory,

    newfoundglory newfoundglory Apr 7, 2012 2:31 PM in response to dimoe
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    Apr 7, 2012 2:31 PM in response to dimoe

    Nooo printers not installed by me.  I too thought it was a bit strange there were on my MacBook Pro.  Remember, I did install 10.6 on a MBP which shipped with 10.7

     

    I can remove these from the package installer and re-upload if its causing issues.

  • by trilogy1000,

    trilogy1000 trilogy1000 Apr 12, 2012 5:27 AM in response to mikethebook
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    Apr 12, 2012 5:27 AM in response to mikethebook

    I haven't followed the entire thread but thought I would add my experiences.

     

    We purchased 6 new iMacs with Lion but a previous experience told me we really wanted to stay with Snow Leopard. We got an existing Snow Leopard machine and formatted it. Installed a clean SL system and did all software updates. Also installed our normal apps to give us a nice clean base system.

     

    Booted one of the Lion iMacs into target disk mode and connected to our clean, base system. Using the SL version of Disk Utility we formatted the Lion iMac. Then we Carbon Copy Cloned the clean base system to the new iMac, restarted and everything worked fine. Put this machine into production for a week to test if anything was broken. Once we were satisfied it was working fine, we simply followed the same format/clone procedure for the other iMacs.

     

    It's now been a couple of months and everything is working as expected. It was a little fiddly but worked really well. We're yet to find anything which isn't working.

     

    BTW, it's important to format a Lion machine with the SL version of Disk Utility to get rid of the recovery partition.

  • by martinonmac,

    martinonmac martinonmac Apr 12, 2012 8:32 AM in response to newfoundglory
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    Apr 12, 2012 8:32 AM in response to newfoundglory

    Hello newfoundglory,

     

    first I want to thank you for your effort to help us (your hopeful followers:-).

    As I took similar steps (even in your footprints) I know it was a lot of work.

     

    So I feel a little bit guilty asking you for some more help.

     

    In fact it is more unix than mac. (Unfortunately that has become the same now).

     

    Then I tried to fix permissions etc. with your recommendation:

    "Using Terminal and Snow Leopard partition:

    sudo su -

    [enter your admin password]

    cd /Sy*/Li*/Ex*/IOPla*/Con*/Pl*/AC*/Con*/Res*/

    chown root:wheel Macmini5*

     

    FINALLY, update the kernel caches using Terminal by typing:

    kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel

    kextcache -system-caches"

     

    But I had no success.

    There are several messages in terminal, but no very specific ones

     

    Then I tried with with David Amis method (you surely know it from the threat):

    "

    • 7. Open the Terminal app in the utilities folder, and type the following:
      sudo su -

    • It will then ask for your password.
      8. Paste the following into terminal:
      cd /System/Library/Extensions/IOPlatformPluginFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/ACPI_SM C_PlatformPlugin.kext/Contents/Resources
    • chown root:wheel Macmini5*
    • chmod 644 Macmini5*
    • cd /System/Library/Extensions
    • chown -R root:wheel AppleIntelHDGraphics.kext
    • chown -R root:wheel AppleIntelSNBGraphicsFB.kext
    • chmod -R 755 AppleIntelHDGraphics.kext
    • chmod -R 755 AppleIntelSNBGraphicsFB.kext
    • kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel
    • kextcache -system-caches
    • exit

     

    • echo 'Finished'"

     

    But that too didn't succeed.

     

    So I ask myself (and you):

    Do I have to change anything in that commands, when I have (of course) another machine/Mini?

     

    Probably you'll laugh, but I didn't find the answers for my unix-stupidity on the web.

     

    Till now, my Mini (Core i7, not the server) did realize about 5.600 geekbench. And I'd like to become a little faster with it.

     

    Thanks in advance.

  • by DownAndOut,

    DownAndOut DownAndOut Apr 15, 2012 10:15 AM in response to bootloader
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    Apr 15, 2012 10:15 AM in response to bootloader

    bootloader wrote:

     

    I made the edit's on framworks no go for me anyone have any luck ?

     

    I'm using a MB Air Superdrive on my mini (i7 server) which is now happily running SL. I did the mbasd=1 plist update and used a script called DVDDriveSwitcher. When it runs it'll prompt for Internal or External. I just changed it to external and rebooted. DVD Player now works like a charm.

     

    And while I'm here: many many thanks to the people who figured out how to make the updates to get SL to run properly on this hardware.

  • by -=Someone=1,

    -=Someone=1 -=Someone=1 Apr 18, 2012 3:48 PM in response to mikethebook
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    Apr 18, 2012 3:48 PM in response to mikethebook

    Would someone redirect me to a relevant thread which would point me to how to get Snow Leopard working properly on a MacBook Air?

     

    I've got 10.6.8 installed and it can boot to external monitor. Internal LCD comes on during initial boot and Apple logo, but then goes black. Trackpad not recognized but usable as a mouse, card reader not recognized.

     

    I've done some kext manipulations per this thread and have the machine ID added to the correct text, but the graphics issue is obviously major. I am about to try the .dmg package posted.

     

     

    Thanks

  • by iXod,

    iXod iXod Apr 24, 2012 7:04 AM in response to -=Someone=1
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    Apr 24, 2012 7:04 AM in response to -=Someone=1

    I'm having issues with iTunes for which I can't point to any other cause.

     

    I dragged a dozen .m4a audio files from Finder into the main iTunes

    window. There appeared a small window with small progress bar and the

    file name currently being copied. Each of the file names appeared in

    the box as iTunes apparently worked its way through the list,

    copying(?) them.

     

    Then... nothing.

     

    I do not see the files anywhere. I typed the names in the search

    field in the upper right corner of the main window. No results.

     

    I do not see them listed in alphabetical order. Nor if I list by date

    (looking for today's date). They are not in any of the subfolders

    (pod casts, etc.).

     

    I trashed the 3 iTunes prefs files and restarted. No joy.

     

    I trashed iTunes and installed a copy downloaded from Apple. No joy.

     

    I rebooted and ran AppleJack (normally a weekly task). No joy.

     

    Is anyone else having troubles copying files (specifically m4a files) to iTunes?

     

    2011 Mac mini 2.7 GHz i7 / 4 GB / 750 GB

    OS X 10.6.8

    iTunes 10.6.1

     

    iX

  • by ZX48,

    ZX48 ZX48 Apr 24, 2012 7:15 AM in response to iXod
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    Apr 24, 2012 7:15 AM in response to iXod

    Sorry iXod. No probs here on a Mac mini server modified using the original kext method to 10.6.8. iTunes 10.6.1.


    Question: Do you still have your Lion installation on there too? Perhaps files are being added to wrong user/library? Can you use spotlight to search for the added .mp4a files to see where they are located?

     

    iXod wrote:

     

    I'm having issues with iTunes for which I can't point to any other cause.

     

    I dragged a dozen .m4a audio files from Finder into the main iTunes

    window. There appeared a small window with small progress bar and the

    file name currently being copied. Each of the file names appeared in

    the box as iTunes apparently worked its way through the list,

    copying(?) them.

     

    Then... nothing.

     

    I do not see the files anywhere. I typed the names in the search

    field in the upper right corner of the main window. No results.

     

    I do not see them listed in alphabetical order. Nor if I list by date

    (looking for today's date). They are not in any of the subfolders

    (pod casts, etc.).

     

    I trashed the 3 iTunes prefs files and restarted. No joy.

     

    I trashed iTunes and installed a copy downloaded from Apple. No joy.

     

    I rebooted and ran AppleJack (normally a weekly task). No joy.

     

    Is anyone else having troubles copying files (specifically m4a files) to iTunes?

     

    2011 Mac mini 2.7 GHz i7 / 4 GB / 750 GB

    OS X 10.6.8

    iTunes 10.6.1

     

    iX

  • by miniserveri7,

    miniserveri7 miniserveri7 Apr 25, 2012 1:26 PM in response to ZX48
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    Apr 25, 2012 1:26 PM in response to ZX48

    I have a version 2 Mac mini server modified using the David Amos Method (for installing Snow Leopard 10.6.8 on a 2011 Mac Mini, version 2).

     

    Is there any benefit to installing the package provided by newfoundglory, after I've already applied the David Amos Method, ver.2?

     

  • by miles3,

    miles3 miles3 Apr 28, 2012 5:58 PM in response to miniserveri7
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    Apr 28, 2012 5:58 PM in response to miniserveri7

    Hello

     

    Can any of you with Mac mini EFI Firmware 1.6 (latest update) installed confirm whether Snow Leopard will still work on Mac mini 2011 models?

  • by Tom Meade1,

    Tom Meade1 Tom Meade1 Apr 29, 2012 9:34 AM in response to iXod
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    Apr 29, 2012 9:34 AM in response to iXod

    @ iXOD I assume you've repaired Permissions and checked the import settings

    in iTunes for compatibility w mp4 (video). You might also try to locate them through

    QuickTime.

     

    Good luck, Tom

  • by iXod,

    iXod iXod Apr 29, 2012 11:49 AM in response to Tom Meade1
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    Apr 29, 2012 11:49 AM in response to Tom Meade1

    Tom,

    the files are m4a, not mp4 (audio not video).

     

    iTunes doesn't care about import settings if you're just adding files to the library (ie, not importing or converting them).

     

    Yes, permissions are repaired by AppleJack maintenance utility, which I ran.

     

    Thanks,

    iX

  • by mesa3077boogie,

    mesa3077boogie mesa3077boogie May 4, 2012 1:46 PM in response to mikethebook
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    May 4, 2012 1:46 PM in response to mikethebook

    I had success installing SL on my 2011 mac mini. I used an early 2011 imac that was born with 10.6.6 SL.

    My mini was born with lion 10.7.1 and I upgraded to 16gb RAM and one of the internal drives to an OCZ Vertex3 SSD.

     

    HOWEVER, after I did the SL "downgrade" I installed geekbench mark and scored a 3100! With Lion installed I score a 9720!

     

    I did not install all my software and run it as Snow Leopard  long enough to see if the system was actually  performaing at one third the Lion machine though. 

     

    Has anyone else had this problem?

     

    Do you think geekbench gave a correct rating? Was my system that was running a 9720 on lion really running a 3100 score? Or was geekbench confused ?

     

    mesa3077boogie

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