OSX 10.6.4 on eBay makes a clean install?

[RIL]

Hi all,

Entirely new to Mac I'm out for a Snow Leopard DVD from which I can perform a "clean install". [EDIT: On a VM]

I need at least version 10.6.4. I found one at eBay but, is this really a full self contained version which will install a fully working OS from scratch on a formatted drive?

As said, I'm new to Mac and from what I've seen only 10.6.3 is shipped by Apple if buying old versions from them today, which is why I feel uncertain about the eBay items. (Example OS X 10.6.4 )

So, would the eBay example install on a formatted drive and result in a full version of OS X?

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[Bear]

The 10.6.4 disc might be a grey system restore version in which case it would only work on the hardware it was shipped with. I'm not sure how it would run in a VM.

 

[RIL]

The 10.6.4 disc might be a grey system restore version in which case it would only work on the hardware it was shipped with.

That's what I also suspect, but since I've never myself have seen any packages for Mac I couldn't tell from the pictures.

Thanks for answering.

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[chrfr]

I need at least version 10.6.4. I found one at eBay but, is this really a full self contained version which will install a fully working OS from scratch on a formatted drive?

Apple never released anything newer than 10.6.3 as a retail installation, so anything newer must be machine specific. You can update 10.6.3 to 10.6.8, so why do you need an installer that's 10.6.4 or newer?

 

[RIL]

The reason is that I have two machines, i5 and i7, and the Snow Leopard version I bought from the Apple store (10.6.3) is exactly the version which will NOT install on a Vmware on i3, i5 or i7 machines.

From 10.6.4 it is said to be Ok though.

But problem is of course that I won't be able to do the very first "clean install" using the 10.6.3 version, for later upgrade to any newer version. Sigh.

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[chrfr]

The reason is that I have two machines, i5 and i7, and the Snow Leopard version I bought from the Apple store (10.6.3) is exactly the version which will NOT install on a Vmware on i3, i5 or i7 machines.

I recall once having a problem like that with an older version of Fusion on a 2010 MacBook Pro with an i5, but as a test using VMWare Fusion 5.0.3 on this late 2012 Mac Mini with an i7, I just now installed 10.6.3 without issue.