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The menu bar had an Airport menu, battery indicator, input menu, and the standard "File", "Edit", "Utilities", and "Window" menus, making it all feel very much like Leopard at this point.
SNOW LEOPARD INSTALLER PC MAC OS
As with other OS X installations there was no description of the specific tasks taking place rather, the system just showed a striped blue progress bar in a window with large "Install Mac OS X" text, and an estimated time remaining underneath. There were no additional configuration options for the installation.Īt this point the installer claimed there were 38 minutes remaining-so far the time estimation seemed accurate.
SNOW LEOPARD INSTALLER PC INSTALL
The standard OS X installer then launched with a slightly different starry-space background than was seen in Leopard, and immediately began the install process. It copied all the selected installation files from the DVD to my hard drive, which took about 10 minutes, and then rebooted. I decided to install Rosetta because a variety of utilities and other packages I use are still PowerPC only.Īfter choosing the options I wanted, I clicked "continue" and the installer claimed the whole process would take 45 minutes or so. Quicktime 7 is installed by default and can be deselected, but on the contrary Rosetta is not checked by default, which is surprising because it is only a single 1.9MB application however, having it this way clearly shows Apple's progressive intent to move away from PowerPC.
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I chose to do an upgrade installation, but in order to do a clean install you click the "Utilities" button and the installer will then boot directly to the DVD and allow you to use Disk Utility to format your hard drive. There are no options to select the installation method (archive and install, or otherwise), which was rumored to be the case before Snow Leopard's release. This was not the case with Snow Leopard, which instead launched a grey-themed installer program that allowed for me to select various options such as printer drivers, QuickTime 7, and Rosetta, all while OS X 10.5 was still running in the background. Inserting the Snow Leopard DVD I double-clicked the install icon, expecting to have it reboot to the DVD as all other OS X installations have required. I also recommend that you run a hard drive verification before installing (as I did), and repair any errors that may arise before continuing with the install. Generally, I recommend permissions fixes before applying incremental updates, but for Snow Leopard I do recommend that you at least run a permissions fix after installation to ensure files are readable when booting to the new OS. Despite this, if you are at all concerned about permissions, performing a fix will not hurt anything so go ahead with one beforehand for extra precaution. Since Snow Leopard will replace most of your system files with optimized binaries, and since the installer will run as "root" and therefore overlook any permissions on the drive, you should not need to run a permissions fix before installing Snow Leopard.