You can't open the application install because PowerPC applications are no longer supported?

Lion and MT. Lion do not support PPC applications, and your MBP cannot be altered to install Snow Leopard. You may investigate if your program can be run in a Windows environment. If so, you can install Windows on your MBP using Bootcamp or Parallels.

Ciao.

MichaelLAX?

[designed in California on Adobe Photoshop CS2 running in Lion]

You need Rosetta (transparent emulation software to run older PowerPC applications on Intel based Macs) to run your CD and Lion no longer includes it. If an updated version of the CD, written for Intel, is not available, you need to install Snow Leopard (with Rosetta) into Parallels in Lion:

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Full Snow Leopard installation instructions are here:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439

While on the "virtualize SL on Parallels" subdiscussion, once you've managed to get the SL VM to install and run on Parallels, would it be feasible to export it and be then able to import and run on Fusion?

I've got fully licensed Fusion and don't want to have to pay for yet another virtualizer, but am aware Parallels can be tested for free for 30 days or so.

I have a limited experience with a trial version of Fusion; but my understanding is that different steps are required to get Snow Leopard to run in Fusion.

Check out this blog for more information on that topic:

http://blog.michael.kuron-germany.de/2011/09/running-mac-os-x-10-4-10-5-10-6-and -10-7-in-vmware-fusion-4-0/

Parallels does indeed offer a 14 day free trial download:

http://trial.parallels.com/index.php?lang=en&terr=us

Just Googling that URL for you brought up an ad for an internet site offering Version 8 for $49.95 instead of the normal $79.

Good luck!

My intentions are, given that getting SL to go on Parallels has been made straightforward thanks to the dilligent efforts of all you guys, I'd use a trial version of it to get a SL VM up and running all nice & dandy. Then, export the thing as an appliance and import it into a licensed Fusion.

Guess I'll have something to do in the weekend.

After some experimentation I find that I am incorrect. Snow Leopard can be installed on a late 2011 MBP. The 'big trick' is to install the latest edition, 10.6.8 in a partition. The retail disk will not install Snow Leopard directly and has to updated prior the installation.

I suspect that this is the simplest and most efficient way to address your problem.

Ciao.

Some of the lastest DVDs produced had 10.6.5 on the installer minisystem and that would boot. But good luck finding one.

Courcoul, saludos: Any Snow Leopard retail disk will work. You can use the one that the Apple store sells. It just has to be updated to 10.6.8 prior to installation.

Ciao.

OGELTHORPE wrote:

Any Snow Leopard retail disk will work...

I believe you are leading the OP on the wrong track!

MacBookPro8,2 requires Lion and will not boot with Snow Leopard (Source: MacTracker).

OGELTHORPE wrote:

After some experimentation I find that I am incorrect. Snow Leopard can be installed on a late 2011 MBP.

Are you saying that YOU got a MacBook Pro8,2 to boot with Snow Leopard?

MichaelLAX, greetings; Not so. I have Snow Leopard resident on a partition on my late 2011 MBP along with Lion. Mactracker is a very good source but is not 100% correct in all specifications.

Ciao.

Greetings!

Always willing to learn new, if unexpected information!

You can use the one that the Apple store sells. It just has to be updated to 10.6.8 prior to installation.

How did you update a retail, non-machine specific, Mac OS X Snow Leopard Install DVD to 10.6.8 "before installation?"

Can you link us to a posted instruction set? I'd love to make one!

MichaelLAX, gretings: There is no link available. This is how I did it:

I installed the white 10.6 retail disk in a partition on my 2006 MBP (any Mac that can accept the retail disk should work).

Ran a software update, creating 10.6.8 version.

Copied it to to an external HDD via Disk Utility>Restore.

Tested on the late 2011 MBP to determine of it booted, which it did.

Partitioned the late 2011 MBP and copied it to the partition via Disk Utility>Restore.

If you put the retail disk in the late 2011 MBP, the MBP will regurgitate the disk. The key is that is has to be the latest version of Snow Leopard.

If you have the proper hardware there should be no difficulty in duplicating this.

Ciao.

I concur. Mine will happily boot off the 10.6.8 partition on an external HDD, but it won't boot off the 10.6.2 retail white install DVD. It will have nothing to do with the 10.5.7 partition on the other end of same HDD, though.

Courcoul, Excelencia; It is most gratifying to know that this also works on the MBPs with the miniature displays.

Ciao.