As you said, the latest update to snow leopard does support sandybridge, but since that won't be the same version that your DVD has, you still have to find a way of installing it. At the end of the day, if snow leopard doesn't have the correct audio drivers by default, you won't get speech in install.
I know theres some curnel hack for people that want to run it on AMD CPU's, but the DVD's that incorporate it ahhem aren't exactly retail. I sware I've scene people add leopard at least to existing os installs so snow leopard should be possible. If I remember correctly, gparted can do stuff to the partitioning so perhaps that might be worth a look? On 07/04/2011, Dickson Tan <[email protected]> wrote: > Good point. Perhaps I would need to use the OSX86 mod cd, which includes > legacy colonel. I'm holding off on doing that for now, since I haven't > really seen instructions of installing snow leopard alongside an existing > windows installation using the OSX86 mod cd and the snow leopard retail dvd. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Mustill-Rose > Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:47 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: accessible install of snow leopard in VMWare Player > > Standard retail snowy won't though because it won't support sandybridge. > > On 07/04/2011, Ashley Cox <[email protected]> wrote: >> it will run on that machine. >> >> jestures won't though. >> >> ash >> >> On 07/04/2011 08:44, Dickson Tan wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> Hmm seems that an accessible install of snow leopard under VMWare >>> isn't a viable way for me to try out snow leopard and voice over. >>> I'll give virtualbox a try and hope that I get better results. >>> >>> I would only try a duel-boot install of snow leopard using something >>> like IHazard (which includes voice over) as a last resort; I haven't >>> found out either way whether Snow Leopard would install on an Acer >>> Aspire 4750G. I'm not sure how well snow leopard would react to the >>> fact that I'm using a core >>> I7 quad-core sandybridge processor, which includes an integrated >>> intel HD Graphics 3000 chip. I wouldn't expect things like gestures >>> to work even if I successfully get mac installed. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] >>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben >>> Mustill-Rose >>> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 12:40 AM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: accessible install of snow leopard in VMWare Player >>> >>> This is against apples eula, even *if* you have purchased snow leopard. >>> To get the dvd to boot, you'll first have to boot the vm using >>> boot132, wait for some text to appear on the screen, eject the disk, >>> insert snowy, complete the install potentially without voice over and >>> then get audio plus some other things working post install. Its not >>> something you'll be able to do on your own. >>> >>> It would probably be easier (But still not accessible) if you were to >>> set up a duelboot depending on what computer you have at the moment. >>> >>> On 06/04/2011, Dickson Tan<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hello All >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I've been thinking of trying out a mac lately, so I got the retail >>>> version of the snow leopard dvd so that I can test snow leopard >>>> under a vm in windows. I wanted to see if snow leopard was worth the >>>> investment of getting a macbook. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> There are instructions on the net on how to install snow leopard >>>> into a vm in VMWare Player and getting it to boot, but when I put >>>> the snow leopard dvd into my laptop's dvd drive and try to launch >>>> voice-over during the snow leopard install, I don't hear any sound. >>>> Either voice-over doesn't start (which shouldn't be happening since >>>> I have a snow leopard retail dvd) or there is problem with sound >>>> during boottime in >>> the vm. >>>> >>>> >>>> Has anyone ever encountered such a problem before? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> >>>> Dickson >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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