Snow Leopard on Mac Mini 2011?

"Steve Jolly



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You can install Snow Leopard on any Mac Mini with a Intel CPU. I'm not certain your preferred method of installation will work unless a retail copy of the OS was used on the MacBook Pro. Apple tends to be fussy that way. You can give it a try but no guarantees. With the cost of a Retail copy of Snow Leopard at $29 I would buy a copy and have it available for future needs. My .02--YMMV

"I just got a new Mac Mini A1347 (Mac mini 2.3 GHz / dual-core Intel Core i5 / 2 GB RAM / 500 GB HD / Intel HD Graphics 3000) in my hands.

I will test it with booting from a harddisk of a MBP 15"" (early 2011, i7 quad 2.2GHz, Intel HD Graphics 3000, AMD Radeon HD 6750M 1024 MB) which was 10.6.7 and was updated to 10.6.8.

As the graphic drivers match it should work like a charm.

Test has been done using an external harddisk over Firewire 800 and as expected:

It works flawlessly !!!

Now to the hard facts:

Systemversion : Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K540)

Kernel-version: Darwin 10.8.0

64-bit-Kernel : yes

Let me know if you need more info or an image or whatever... ;-)

Greetz"

"I would like to bring this article to your attention (this was written a few days and answers later):

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/government/how...

Summary, as I have understood it: The author has installed Snow Leopard on the 2011 Lion Mac Mini. He has done this while booting from another Mac and connecting the Mini in firewire target mode. Then he has used a regular (retail?) SL DVD that he has bought before to install the system on the Lion Mac. He mentioned that he wasn't sure if Thunderbolt is working.

In the talkback someone suggested installing Snow Leopard via virtualization. Interesting.

One thing I don't understand is, why has he updated the Mac OS to 10.6.5 and not to 10.6.8?

Something else I couldn't find in the article was, which Mini model has he used?"

"I have it 'working' the graphics are screwy but it is passable. I used Super Duper! to clone an older mac mini and then restore it to the lion partition.

It worked fine in the office until I started to use the HDMI port and 16:9 resolution. When using the HDMI two monitors show up and the cursor is on the 'other' screen (ie the one not being displayed). If you set the two displays to 'mirror' things work pretty well - finger's crossed!"