On Jun 16, 2010, at 12:17 PM, Karl Kuehn wrote:
This is a pretty silly distinction. You are right that 10.6.4 is
not (yet) a "reference"[1] release, but many people on this list
would consider it trivial to make bootable media using that update
to get a 10.6.4 system that can boot systems that came out since
10.6.3 (presumably... this usually works but I have not tried it yet
with the new hardware). It is not even that difficult to make an
installer disk that will install a 10.6.4 system just like a
reference release would.
[1] This is generally what I have heard OS release called when Apple
updates the version of the OS disks that it sells at stores.
Yes, but taking a bootable system that supports all current shipping
hardware (ie: a system preinstalled by Apple on an i7 or i5, or using
the installer that came with such a system and installing it onto an
i5 or i7) and patching it to 10.6.4 is not the same thing as using any
random SL disk and patching to 10.6.4.
The original poster is trying to skip the special build, and I don't
think it's possible, or at the very least, it's tremendously more
complex.
PS: It's not exclusive to Mac. Try talking to anyone with Windows XP
who is finally ready to go to Windows 7 and wants to do an upgrade. Or
someone who had a 32 bit Vista and is moving to 64 bit 7.
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