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Q: How do I make a disc or USB drive that will allow installation OS X 10.6.8 in one step?

How do I make a disc or USB drive that will allow installation OS X 10.6.8 in one step?

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.5), 4 GB SDRAM

Posted on Mar 26, 2016 7:37 PM

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Q: How do I make a disc or USB drive that will allow installation OS X 10.6.8 in one step?

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  • by theratter,

    theratter theratter Mar 26, 2016 7:45 PM in response to cork55
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    Mar 26, 2016 7:45 PM in response to cork55

    You will need to start with the Snow Leopard disk that came with your computer. If you have that disk, then you don't need to make a disk. You can clone the disc to any USB flash drive using Disk Utility. If you don't have the installer disk for your computer, then you cannot make a USB flash drive for Snow Leopard.

  • by Limnos,Helpful

    Limnos Limnos Mar 27, 2016 10:30 AM in response to cork55
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    Mar 27, 2016 10:30 AM in response to cork55

    There's many different answer and partial solution for this so it would help to know exactly what it is you are trying to achieve and from where you are starting. Obviously the easiest solution will be use a Snow Leopard installer disc but it still won't be one step. You will have to click at least several things and possibly even format a drive.

  • by cork55,

    cork55 cork55 Mar 27, 2016 10:58 AM in response to Limnos
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    Mar 27, 2016 10:58 AM in response to Limnos

    HI Limnos,

     

    I recently purchased OS X 10.6 (which is how it is described on Apple.com ordering webpage, there is no build number listed, such as 10.6.3 or 10.6 .8) DVD disc from Apple.com, assuming I would receive version 10.6.8, the latest version of the 10.6 OS.

     

    However, when I received my DVD, I was extremely unhappy to find that I had bent sent version 10.6.3. Before I go any further, let make it clear, for a company that is known to have $50,000,000,000 in the bank, charging me $20, then failing to supply me with the latest version of OS X 10.6 is UNEXCUSABLE! Period.

     

    So, in my humble opinion, Apple, meaning AppleCare specifically, has a moral obligation to find a way for me to install version 10.6.8 in my early MacBook. As you well know, Apple has qualified technicians who can prepare a DVD of build 10.6.8, just as they prepared 10.6.3 or any other version of OS X that has ever been supplied in physical media. At this point, you are the 3rd Apple employee who has told me that you "don't know how to do this." But that is not the point, is it. You need to find someone at Apple who does know how to do that, and either send me a DVD, or tell me how to make one myself.

     

    Please understand, I am honored to work with you and everyone at Apple, and I am just starting a focused effort to become an Apple Certified Technician for Mac and OS X. So, I will likely soon understand the solution to my concern on my own. Be that as it may, please provide me with what my $20 should have already afforded me, a complete, installable copy of OS X 10.6.8.

     

    Thanks,

     

    Cork

  • by cork55,

    cork55 cork55 Mar 27, 2016 11:55 AM in response to theratter
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    Mar 27, 2016 11:55 AM in response to theratter

    Re: theratter's reply dated March 26, 2016, 7:45 PM

     

    With all due respect, your comment assumes that version 10.6.8 was originally installed on this MacBook, which is actually a MacBook, 13 inch, early 2009, originally supplied with version OS X 10.5 Leopard.

     

    However, my specific goal with this MacBook is to return it to the person who sold it to me in the condition that I received it, with a fresh install of 10.6.8, ready for someone to login for the first time. Clearly, my goal is achievable, since I received this MacBook in the condition that want to leave it in, but, for now, I have installed version 10.6.3, logged in to the MacBook, and ran all available software upgrades, which has left this MacBook with 10.6.8 as the current version. However, there is the problem remaining that whoever ultimately buys this MacBook, if I leave it in the condition that it is in now, will know that it does not have a fresh installation of the current OS X, and they will need to delete the user that I was forced to create when I had to login at version 10.6.3 tp upgrade it to version 10.6.8.

     

    (Note: Whoever joins this discussion, please do not suggest that I do something different than create a fresh installation of 10.6.8. That is my sole, specific goal here, how to do that precise thing. From a technical point of view, 10.6.8 is the earliest version of OS X that makes sense to install, since all earlier versions are incompatible with the Apple App Store, and it is my personal, professional preference to be able to do this. That being said, it is my understanding that many technicians will install the originally installed OS X when they prepare an older Mac for resale, but I did not buy this MacBook originally, and I was not supplied with the original OS X installation media.)

  • by cork55,

    cork55 cork55 Mar 27, 2016 12:10 PM in response to cork55
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    Mar 27, 2016 12:10 PM in response to cork55

    (Note: The MacBook referenced in my original question is not the MacBook that my question refers to. It is the one I have been using for years, a MacBook, 13 inch, early 2008, that I am replacing because it is limited to upgrading to OS X 10.7 Lion. Many of the primary software apps that I use now require a version of OS X newer than 10.7, and the time has come to find a replacement!)

     

    -Cork

  • by BobHarris,

    BobHarris BobHarris Mar 27, 2016 12:19 PM in response to cork55
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    Mar 27, 2016 12:19 PM in response to cork55

    rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone

    Then delete the account you are using.

  • by MichelPM,

    MichelPM MichelPM Mar 27, 2016 1:32 PM in response to cork55
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    Mar 27, 2016 1:32 PM in response to cork55

    The 10.6.8 update was a download and install update only.

    Apple doesn't create custom install discs and this version of OS X was NEVER offered as an OEM packaged retail install disc.

    The only official OEM packaged retail install disc came in the form of OS X 10.6.3 and later, a OS X 10.6.6 versions.

    For some reason only known to Apple, they discontinued the 10.6.6 OEM retail packaged install disc and for quite a long time, now, and only offer the 10.6.3 install disc as the only replacement OEM packaged install this now.

    The major update from this version is in the form of a combo update that is still a download only update

     

    Download Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update v.1.1

     

    This is the way it is and has always been for, at least, the last 5-6 years.

  • by cork55,

    cork55 cork55 Mar 30, 2016 3:35 PM in response to MichelPM
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    Mac OS X
    Mar 30, 2016 3:35 PM in response to MichelPM

    MIchaelPM:

     

    Your information is appreciated, and I discovered the 10.6.8 update file recently on apple.com myself, and I believe using it will make upgrading from 10.6.3 to 10.6.8 quicker. However, my real goal is to have a fresh, unopened install of 10.6.8 available on a MacBook, period. I have seen 2 MacBooks in this condition already, so I know it is possible. Can anyone speak to achieving that one specific goal?