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I'm installing a new hard drive on a friend's MacBook Pro. He doesn't have the original disks that came with it, but it seems obvious to me that, since it's an official Apple product, it came from the factory with a licensed copy of OS X. Logically, it follows suit that I should be able to get this from Apple at no charge (other than maybe shipping & handling and maybe a small price for the media.)
Apple doesn't seem to see it that way. They want my friend to buy Lion. OK - at $30 it seems worth it to him. Problem is, it seems he can't just go buy a disk that I can throw in, boot up and install from. In order to install Lion, you have to have Snow Leopard already installed. (Sheez! Really?!?!)
I can't see paying for Lion AND Snow Leopard when he already had a licensed copy of SO X on there to start with. I can download a .DMG image of Snow Leopard, but I can't seem to figure out how to burn it to something I can use - using the hardware/machines I have...
I have a single layer DVD writer - no dual layer. (But I have plenty of large thumb drives.) I have a couple of Windows 7 boxes, an OpenSolaris box and a Linux (Mint) box. Everything I've read about creating bootable media for installing Snow Leopard wants me to use tools that are only found on a Mac. I can't believe Apple makes this so painful! (If I'm missing something here, please educate me.)
Can anyone point me toward a procedure that I can use to make a bootable Snow Leopard thumbdrive from a non-Apple machine?
Thanks for your time and consideration.
Apple doesn't seem to see it that way. They want my friend to buy Lion. OK - at $30 it seems worth it to him. Problem is, it seems he can't just go buy a disk that I can throw in, boot up and install from. In order to install Lion, you have to have Snow Leopard already installed. (Sheez! Really?!?!)
I can't see paying for Lion AND Snow Leopard when he already had a licensed copy of SO X on there to start with. I can download a .DMG image of Snow Leopard, but I can't seem to figure out how to burn it to something I can use - using the hardware/machines I have...
I have a single layer DVD writer - no dual layer. (But I have plenty of large thumb drives.) I have a couple of Windows 7 boxes, an OpenSolaris box and a Linux (Mint) box. Everything I've read about creating bootable media for installing Snow Leopard wants me to use tools that are only found on a Mac. I can't believe Apple makes this so painful! (If I'm missing something here, please educate me.)
Can anyone point me toward a procedure that I can use to make a bootable Snow Leopard thumbdrive from a non-Apple machine?
Thanks for your time and consideration.