Load Snow Leopard on a Lion MBP i7 ?

[GermanyChris]

Ummm.. not always the case. I have an early 2011 that came with SL, and a early 2011 that shipped with Lion. If I try to use the SL restore discs on the Lion machine it has no issues getting past the model check and will install. But it kernel panics on subsequent boot.

It's believed to be a later EFI update that renders the instability.

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10.6 isn't licensed to run in a VM unless it's server. VMWare Fusion won't allow it unless you find a 4.01 build where they "oops'ed" on the license check.

That may be true, it's not something I'd investigate or loose sleep over if violating the EULA..

 

[softasfur]

SL will not load on Air or Mini

Snow leopard will not install on the i7 airs or mac-minis. MBP should work. i had to return my i7 Air for this reason. I could get external monitor to work but there are no video drivers on SL to operate the new hardware. You would think Apple could add this in a software update. Win XP is still in use in all the offices I've seen. No Vista, No Win7.
Snow Leopard is the XP of Mac. Lion is just consumer 'profit over people' garbage.

 

[grrrz]

in case you're still searching, there's this method:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/government/how-to-install-snow-leopard-on-a-brand-new-lion-based-mac/10652

 

[softasfur]

SL will not load on Air or Mini

in case you're still searching, there's this method:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/government/how-to-install-snow-leopard-on-a-brand-new-lion-based-mac/10652

I had to use that method, but not for Lion... just to get SL on the dang thing. To put SL on a MM server you had to use that method and some other tweaks because SL doesn't have the drivers for the NETWORK adaptor on those MM. ..and this is the Core2 model. (I wanted to use the MM as a "real" apple tv media center and then run SL Server on VMware on an i7 imac.)

I don't think the ZDnet guys actually tried it. ...but that would be the correct way to do it. I don't know, it didn't work on the air, but I haven't tried it myself on a MM. Can't wait to see the 'improvements' on Mountain Lion this summer. You can't 'sell' us on new features. There's too many features as it is. SL wasn't broke and didn't need to be improved. You can not 'merge' iOS and OSX. Give the Macs touch screens than yeah, maybe.

 

[shootist]

All you need is a copy of 10.6.7 or .8
Where you find that is up to you. It is available through certain channels.

 

[Mr.Mo]

in case you're still searching, there's this method:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/government/how-to-install-snow-leopard-on-a-brand-new-lion-based-mac/10652

Longtime reader, but this is my first post.

Recently bought a refurbished early 2011 15" i7 MacBook Pro that came preloaded with Lion. I used the above method to "downgrade" from Lion to Snow Leopard and did a clean install on a new HDD I had. Lion was too buggy for my tastes, and I am one of the few that had the Wifi bug (where you lose Wifi every time you wake your Mac from sleep). Being a teacher that uses a lot of streaming, this was a deal breaker for me.

I used the retail copy of SL and downloaded the 10.6.8 Combo update to my old MacBook. Installed SL from my old mac to my new one using Target Disk mode, rebooted the new one and put it back into Target Disk mode (before it can display errors for having an outdated OS). I then installed 10.6.8 using Target Disk mode, rebooted my new after the install, and it was fully operational.

No problems at all, my MacBook runs smooth and I am so glad to be back on Snow Leopard. I wanted to like Lion, but it caused too many headaches for me in the five days I had it

 

[maincooncat]

sonw leopard on late model macbbo pro i7 MD311LL/A

if I take the hard drive out of a new MacBook Pro 17" i7 2.4GHz 16Gb RAM - Late 2011 - MD311LL/A and put it into an external USB drive case and connect it to my mac pro tower and use disk utility to erase the drive and do a clean install of Snow Leopard and then do all the updates to Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and then install the drive back into my MacBook Pro 17" i7 2.4GHz 16Gb RAM - Late 2011 - MD311LL/A
will I have any conflicts or will it not boot at all and if it does boot what issues will I run in to? Anyone have an answer to this?

 

[simsaladimbamba]

if I take the hard drive out of a new MacBook Pro 17" i7 2.4GHz 16Gb RAM - Late 2011 - MD311LL/A and put it into an external USB drive case and connect it to my mac pro tower and use disk utility to erase the drive and do a clean install of Snow Leopard and then do all the updates to Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and then install the drive back into my MacBook Pro 17" i7 2.4GHz 16Gb RAM - Late 2011 - MD311LL/A
will I have any conflicts or will it not boot at all and if it does boot what issues will I run in to? Anyone have an answer to this?

That is the method I used with a late 2011 MBP, though I just used Target Disk Mode instead of removing the HDD from the 2011 MBP.