2012 Mini Snow Leopard Sever question

[Patth9]

I am using Mt. Lion on my 2012 Mac Mini, and all is well. I have a total of 5 partitions. I would like to install Snow Leopard Server on one of these partitions, not to be a server, but just to use for Appleworks and Eudora. My husband's Mac Mini (older) uses both of these old applications, and they work nicely for him on simply Snow Leopard.

Will this work?

 

[chrfr]

I am using Mt. Lion on my 2012 Mac Mini, and all is well. I have a total of 5 partitions. I would like to install Snow Leopard Server on one of these partitions, not to be a server, but just to use for Appleworks and Eudora. My husband's Mac Mini (older) uses both of these old applications, and they work nicely for him on simply Snow Leopard.

Will this work?

You'd need to install it using Parallels or VMWare Fusion. The 2012 Mac Mini cannot run Snow Leopard directly.

 

[FrancoisC]

It won't work, as this Mac shipped with an OS more recent than Snow Leopard, the OS won't have the necessary kext (You could see those as drivers) for your machine.

 

[redheeler]

I am using Mt. Lion on my 2012 Mac Mini, and all is well. I have a total of 5 partitions. I would like to install Snow Leopard Server on one of these partitions, not to be a server, but just to use for Appleworks and Eudora. My husband's Mac Mini (older) uses both of these old applications, and they work nicely for him on simply Snow Leopard.

Will this work?

Nope, the earliest you can natively boot from is Mountain Lion. But, you can install Snow Leopard Server as a VM.

 

[barracuda156]

It won't work, as this Mac shipped with an OS more recent than Snow Leopard, the OS won't have the necessary kext (You could see those as drivers) for your machine.

Here in comments some says it is possible: I believe it does – I am using this on a 2012 MacMini that came with Snow Leopard, and reverse-engineered it to use 10.6 with this methodology.

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