![]() ![]() Then Leopard and the iPhone SDK were released but strangely I could no longer install onto Tiger, no, no I had to buy Leopard – (Apple –1 point). I wanted to write for the iPhone/iTouch as so joined the Apple Developer group, downloaded iPhone SDK beta and started to wrestle with, IMO, the disgustingly ancient Objective C. Ok so I’m a developer with a keen interest in developing Mobile applications well more PDA than phone but still. ![]() I’ve a included a picture of my hi-tech setup, hopefully you can see the SATA/IDE to USB converter (complete with power too), my glowing USB stick with OSX now on it and my poor old Macbook getting Slow Leonard put on it. I did use it to create a USB drive (via the Disk Utility/Mac journal format/Restore) to continue the install process as I thought it would be convenient to have OSX Install on flash rather than drag my repair kit out. I then took a DVD drive from my ageing Dell and connected it to my Mac via the USB converter. A little device that plugs onto a Hard Disk and turns it into a USB drive. In my case I raided my PC hardware tools and dug out my emergency hard disk reader kit. Here is my solution, basically get an external DVD drive. Don’t bother with CD/DVD sharing either, Tiger doesn’t play as client. Don’t waste you time, face it if the DVD is in the slot loader drive it is not going to work. It also means you can’t create a bootable USB drive cause it won’t read the DVD to copy all the files off it. It either spits it out or fails complaining about “bad download” or “file missing” or other read failures that essentially mean you can’t use it. My old Macbook (white Intel) does not like the Snow Leopard DVD. How to install Snow Leopard on Tiger when it refuses to read the install DVD So if you don’t care about my thoughts on the matter then just read the how-to. ![]() This post is in three sections a sorry story of my adventures in upgrading from OSX Tiger to Snow Leopard, my thoughts about the why it happened and probably the useful bit – how I solved the problem, I’ll do this section first. ![]()
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