I've been using a white MacBook since january 2006, and I bought new MacBook which includes bundle snow leopard on december 2009. LOL.
I was happy, cause I was about to install snow leopard on my old MacBook. But real world wasn't easy. Apple prevents installing bundle OS to another machine, even though it's a mac.
I KNOW IT'S ILLEGAL, BUT I'M A HUNGRY STUDENT AND I'VE BOUGHT APPLE'S STUFF ENOUGH. So, this time I did my best to use bundle snow leopard to install on my old mac for free :p.
When I tried to install bundle snow leopard on my old mac, I got a 'Mac OSX cannot be installed on this computer' message and blocked, because the install routine checks
the mac's identifier. So I inserted my old mac'
s identifier(MacBook2,1) in the list which install routine compares with. Then everything is alright.
This is how to how to install bundle snow leopard on my old mac.
Needs
new MacBook(Snow Leopard), a old MacBook, Double Layer clean DVD.
On the new MacBook
- Open disk utility and insert your disk. Select the disk and hit new image. Save the image as cd/dvd master.
- Enable showing hidden folders/files. Open terminal and do this.
kkabdol$ defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
kkabdol$ killall Finder
- Mount the image and go into the system/Installation/Packages.
- Copy OSInstall.mpkg file to a new folder on my desktop. For example desktop/install
- Extract .mpkg file and edit Distribution file. Open terminal again and do this.
kkabdol$ cd Desktop/install
kkabdol$ xar -x -f OSInstall.mpkg
kkabdol$ rm OSInstall.mpkg
kkabdol$ vi Distribution
- In Distribution file, edit this. Insert old mac's identifier and save.
var hwbeSupportedMachines = [
'MacBook6,1',
'MacBook2,1',
];
- And make new .mpkg file. Do this.
kkabdol$ xar -c -f OSInstall.mpkg *
- Replace new OSInstall.mpkg of the mounted image
- Eject the mounted image and open disk utility.
- Insert a DL(Double Layer) DVD and hit burn.
burn it at the LOWEST speed possible.
On the old MacBook
- Install the burned dvd. It's all yours.