This may have been covered, but I did not find a thread... So here goes:
I know, that the practice with Apple is that you usually cannot install an operating system version, which is older than the OS the computer came preinstalled with.
What I do not know, is the actual mechanism how Apple enforces this, and I would like someone to enlighten me.
I've surmised, that the OS installer disk (at an early stage) checks whether the machine is "allowed", and I assume this can be circumvented somehow...
I also assume that the actual problem may be more related with drivers, but I still assume that a cunning hacker (not me) could recreate the OS installer so that the hardware support would/could be added
Are there any other caveats? So say I want to buy a new Mac, but that I'll definitely need Rosetta (necessitating leopard or snow leopard), would it be possible to hack a installer, which would allow installing say 10.6 on the new hardware?
And BTW: I'm fully cognizant of that the eula would not sanction this, but frankly do not care, so spare me the lecture.
RGDS,
I know, that the practice with Apple is that you usually cannot install an operating system version, which is older than the OS the computer came preinstalled with.
What I do not know, is the actual mechanism how Apple enforces this, and I would like someone to enlighten me.
I've surmised, that the OS installer disk (at an early stage) checks whether the machine is "allowed", and I assume this can be circumvented somehow...
I also assume that the actual problem may be more related with drivers, but I still assume that a cunning hacker (not me) could recreate the OS installer so that the hardware support would/could be added
Are there any other caveats? So say I want to buy a new Mac, but that I'll definitely need Rosetta (necessitating leopard or snow leopard), would it be possible to hack a installer, which would allow installing say 10.6 on the new hardware?
And BTW: I'm fully cognizant of that the eula would not sanction this, but frankly do not care, so spare me the lecture.
RGDS,