![]() ![]() If your copy of Windows came on a DVD, you might need to create a disk image of that DVD.Īfter Windows installation completes, your Mac starts up in Windows and opens a ”Welcome to the Boot Camp installer” window. If your copy of Windows came on a USB flash drive, or you have a Windows product key and no installation disc, download a Windows 10 disk image from Microsoft. If installing Windows on your Mac for the first time, this must be a full version of Windows, not an upgrade. 2Īn external USB flash drive with a storage capacity of 16GB or more, unless you're using a Mac that doesn't need a flash drive to install Windows.Ī 64-bit version of Windows 10 Home or Windows 10 Pro on a disk image (ISO) or other installation media. If you have an iMac Pro or Mac Pro with 128GB of memory (RAM) or more, your startup disk needs at least as much free storage space as your Mac has memory. Automatic Windows updates require that much space or more. Your Mac can have as little as 64GB of free storage space, but at least 128GB of free storage space provides the best experience. You will use Boot Camp Assistant to install Windows 10.Ħ4GB or more free storage space on your Mac startup disk: The latest macOS updates, which can include updates to Boot Camp Assistant. MacBook Pro introduced in 2012 through 2020, excluding MacBook Pro (13-inch, M1, 2020) MacBook Air introduced in 2012 through 2020, excluding MacBook Air (M1, 2020) If anyone has an install for SL Server I would be interested.Boot Camp requires a Mac with an Intel processor. Yes I do have a Mac Mini PowerPC and contrally to what is often said I can boot that box from an external USB disk slooooowly. This allows you to run say some older games that ran on pre Intel Apple Machines. Its a VM for the older software written for the IBM CPU (PowerPC) before Apple switched to Intel. Once happy you can buy a license key from t'web for around a fiver or less. You don't even need a license key in order to install Win 10 Pro but some prettifications will be locked out and you'll get a nag bottom right of screen. An Intel Apple machine is just another computer nothing special except for its sexy looks and double-price tag. Just make a time machine backup so that you can if you wish go back and then install Windows from either CD or USB stick as per the M$ instructions. I have one with Yosemite/El Cap/ High Sierra/ Mojave o/s and when you boot a newer machine using the Opt key they appear as though they are on separate multiple USB sticks.įWIW you don't actually need boot camp if you want to install Windows 10 Pro on an Intel Apple machine. FWIW you can actually create several partitions on the USB stick and have multiple bootable OS X/macOS images. Guess I could try burning the 10.6.8 ISO to a DVD.but that means I need to go and buy some!Īnyone familiar with repurposing old Apple hardware? Great design for something 14 years old, but they’re about to be chucked off my balcony if they don’t play ballįunnily enough I recently wiped my SL bootable USB drive as I needed the stick for something else. But that takes me back to my original try to create a new fat32 partition on the MacBook using disk utility, and me getting the error the disk needs repair with disk utility. ![]() I have multiple w7/w10 32 and 64Bit DVDs - only 32bit W7 is recognized, but on launching it doesn’t recognize local disk in MacBook. How the hell do I make a snow leopard bootable USB stick under 10.6.8? Trying to create the image on an erased fat32 USB, it cannot create the new image, saying not enough space. Is successful, but rebooting MacBook with option key it does not recognize the USB as a bootable device. I downloaded the 10.6.8 ISO file, I use disk utility to try and create an image from the ISO to a spare USB stick - I select Apple standard format for USB and erase it first. I cannot install boot camp, using disk utility suggests the OS install needs repair and to download or use the original Snow Leopard disks and to boot from them to do the repair. I’d like to install (or try) either W7 or W10 on them. They’re both a fresh install of 10.6.8.ie limited value. I recently picked up 2x 2006 MacBook Core 2 Duo laptops, currently running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. ![]()
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