Snow Leopard on Sandy Bridge

[amoretam]

Hi people, I just need to know if snow leopard will work with a Sandy Bridge system with these components:

Gigabyte Intel Z68 ATX DDR3 2133 LGA 1155 Rev 1.3

Intel Core i5-2500K Processor

Western Digital 500 GB Caviar Blue SATA 3 Gb/s 7200 RPM 16 MB Cache

8GB G.Skill DDR3 PC3-12800 1600MHz Ripjaw Series

I have Lion installed but I need to install Leopard in another HDD (the one above) because of program compatibility

If it is possible please send me to a proper guide that you know of...


Thanks a lot lovely people of this forum...

 

[totenkopf4]

Hi people, I just need to know if snow leopard will work with a Sandy Bridge system with these components:

Gigabyte Intel Z68 ATX DDR3 2133 LGA 1155 Rev 1.3

Intel Core i5-2500K Processor

Western Digital 500 GB Caviar Blue SATA 3 Gb/s 7200 RPM 16 MB Cache

8GB G.Skill DDR3 PC3-12800 1600MHz Ripjaw Series

I have Lion installed but I need to install Leopard in another HDD (the one above) because of program compatibility

If it is possible please send me to a proper guide that you know of...


Thanks a lot lovely people of this forum...

amoretam

yes this should almost be a no brainer - suggest you do a goggle search on these words "GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 + Snow Leopard"
Check the links out - many are in the Tonymacx86 domain some are not - but do read them - a lot of these will be upgrading to OSX 10.7 or 10.8 but they each had to install OSX 10.6.8 to get their.

The main item to know is that you will need to use the program called "Update Helper?" this is for the Sandy Bridge CPU.

Also suggest you match the BIOS to the DSDT file in the DSDT section for your motherboard.
If you need to you may want to upgrade the BIOS but only if you dont have a DSDT file for it.

these are the install guides that tony and friends have written suggest you study them

iBoot and Multibeast - TonyMacx86 guide
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/04/iboot-multibeast-install-mac-os-x-on.html

Simplest Mac OS X Installation Guide - for 10.6.x
http://www.tonymacx86.com/43-simplest-mac-os-x-installation-guide.html
or
http://www.tonymacx86.com/section/3-guides.html

Mac OSC 10.6.8 update - and Update Helper for Sandy Bridge
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2011/06/mac-os-x-1068-update.html
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2011/07/get-ready-for-os-x-lion-update-to-1068.html

Even HD 3000 is supported since 10.6.7 I think every one will say its better to get a GFX card that meets the SL specs -
See this link for info on that.
TonyMac listing of supported video cards that you may find usefull
http://legacy.tonymacx86.com/wiki/index.php?title=Graphics_Card_Database
http://legacy.tonymacx86.com/wiki/index.php/Graphics_Card_Database

 

[amoretam]

amoretam

yes this should almost be a no brainer - suggest you do a goggle search on these words "GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 + Snow Leopard"
Check the links out - many are in the Tonymacx86 domain some are not - but do read them - a lot of these will be upgrading to OSX 10.7 or 10.8 but they each had to install OSX 10.6.8 to get their.

The main item to know is that you will need to use the program called "Update Helper?" this is for the Sandy Bridge CPU.

Also suggest you match the BIOS to the DSDT file in the DSDT section for your motherboard.
If you need to you may want to upgrade the BIOS but only if you dont have a DSDT file for it.

these are the install guides that tony and friends have written suggest you study them

iBoot and Multibeast - TonyMacx86 guide
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/04/iboot-multibeast-install-mac-os-x-on.html

Simplest Mac OS X Installation Guide - for 10.6.x
http://www.tonymacx86.com/43-simplest-mac-os-x-installation-guide.html
or
http://www.tonymacx86.com/section/3-guides.html

Mac OSC 10.6.8 update - and Update Helper for Sandy Bridge
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2011/06/mac-os-x-1068-update.html
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2011/07/get-ready-for-os-x-lion-update-to-1068.html

Even HD 3000 is supported since 10.6.7 I think every one will say its better to get a GFX card that meets the SL specs -
See this link for info on that.
TonyMac listing of supported video cards that you may find usefull
http://legacy.tonymacx86.com/wiki/index.php?title=Graphics_Card_Database
http://legacy.tonymacx86.com/wiki/index.php/Graphics_Card_Database

awesome! I just hope I don't have to change my Bios version because I want to run my current Lion system..

Snow Leopard is just for some programs that don't support Lion yet...

Thanks a lot bro.....I start reading right away !

 

[totenkopf4]

awesome! I just hope I don't have to change my Bios version because I want to run my current Lion system..

Snow Leopard is just for some programs that don't support Lion yet...

Thanks a lot bro.....I start reading right away !

amoretam

If you can get the dsdt file to match your current bios then its ok

If you used a dsdt file to install LION onto your hardware you can use that DSDT file for Snow Leopard

 

[amoretam]

amoretam

If you can get the dsdt file to match your current bios then its ok

If you used a dsdt file to install LION onto your hardware you can use that DSDT file for Snow Leopard

super awesome.... these things just get better and better,,

thanks a lot toten

 

[amoretam]

sorry to resurrect an old thread but I have a question since I am making the move to snow leopard (while keeping lion..)

Is there a way to easily transfer my installed applications (some of them I need) from Lion to Snow Leopard...
This is so I don't have to install all needed applications from scratch..
I know some people use migration assistant in leopard, others use disk utility to restore...

But wouldn't this mess with the multibeast settings and things like that??

Thanks a lot people

 

[amoretam]

sorry to resurrect an old thread but I have a question since I am making the move to snow leopard (while keeping lion..)

Is there a way to easily transfer my installed applications (some of them I need) from Lion to Snow Leopard...
This is so I don't have to install all needed applications from scratch..
I know some people use migration assistant in leopard, others use disk utility to restore...

But wouldn't this mess with the multibeast settings and things like that??

Thanks a lot people

anyone........????

 

[totenkopf4]

sorry to resurrect an old thread but I have a question since I am making the move to snow leopard (while keeping lion..)

Is there a way to easily transfer my installed applications (some of them I need) from Lion to Snow Leopard...
This is so I don't have to install all needed applications from scratch..
I know some people use migration assistant in leopard, others use disk utility to restore...

But wouldn't this mess with the multibeast settings and things like that??

Thanks a lot people

amoretam

The problem is that the installer will deposit files in different locations and we don't have a method of looking at it -
their is a utility that will allow you to view and unpack an installer package ( name escapes me)

I have not used migration assistant - not sure if it works in reverse NEW OS to Old OS> but you could try it - suggest backups of the LION in the event of total failure.

DO you not have the software installers to re-install as this would be the easiest method.

Also you may look at time machine w an external HD to backup LION and then see if you can use TM to restore programs to the SL dISK

yOU ALSO could but icons on the SL drive that point to the location where they are on the Lion Drive this may work for some applications.
As long as they can run in SL.

 

[amoretam]

yOU ALSO could but icons on the SL drive that point to the location where they are on the Lion Drive this may work for some applications.
As long as they can run in SL.

sorry what was that? I think you missed some words there...

I use CCC to backup my system, I have a complete ccc backup of lion, I dont know if that would be possible with ccc to restore programs..

Thanks a lot

 

[totenkopf4]

sorry what was that? I think you missed some words there...

I use CCC to backup my system, I have a complete ccc backup of lion, I dont know if that would be possible with ccc to restore programs..

Thanks a lot

amoretam

We will assume that you hardware is not Ivy Bridge - that way we then can assume that you can make a Hack SL boot drive which is separate from the ML Hack Boot volume.

This way we can dual boot w two separate HD's. One is SL the other is ML.

From the ML drive copy an icon of an App that you want to run from Sl and place it on the desktop of your Sl volume - this makes a pointer to the ML location for the program - when you launch the icon on the SL volume it runs the software from the ML Disk - this could be a solution

This will not work for all programs - for example Microsoft Office as this installs kexts to the system folders.