View topic - Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Developer Preview is out 021611 - Windows, Apple, Application, Abandonware and Game Beta Downloads/Repository

Gligar13

One of my friends who had a Mac tried it, and said nothing really changed....

Also, I'm wondering if the removal of the word "Mac" means they are phasing out the Mac branding or integrating it with iOS more and more eventually.....

bradphipps

pkubaj wrote:

I'd wait for http://imzdl.com/ to upload it.

It's up, but it's dead slow.

Jhoopes517

Dissapointed! Apple dropped support for MacBook 2,1 with this update.

That sucks.

http://www.tuaw.com/2012/02/16/mountain ... ac-models/

finkmacunix

How old is the MacBook 2,1?

gamer765

Apple is pulling off the Mobile OS integration better than MS is. Apple is bringing features, MS is bringing the UI which I believe is worthless, even more since the desktop mode is losing its start orb.

Jhoopes517

finkmacunix wrote:

How old is the MacBook 2,1?

Late 2006.

They dropped support for all white MacBook's practically.

anthonyboone

Does anyone know what else lost support? An HCL of sorts on anyone's hands?

Biohead

From the link posted from tuaw just a few posts up:

Quote:

The march of progress continues in OS X Mountain Lion, and with it comes a new set of minimum requirements. An anonymous developer clued us into the minimum requirements for OS X 10.8, and there's bad news for some older Mac owners. Mountain Lion will only run on the following Macs:

iMac (mid 2007 or later)
MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, 2008), (13-inch, Early 2009 or later)
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or later), (15-inch, 2.4/2.2 GHz), (17-inch, Late 2007 or later)
MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)
Mac Mini (Early 2009 or later)
Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)
Xserve (Early 2009)

SaT

http://www.canadawebdeveloper.ca/micros ... tain-lion/

i made a small post.... about this... and Windows 8

CPCookieMan

Jhoopes517 wrote:

finkmacunix wrote:

How old is the MacBook 2,1?

Late 2006.

They dropped support for all white MacBook's practically.

Us MacBook White users won't give up that easily

I'm downloading the dmg from whatever URL that was above. I'll upload to the server if it's not there when I finish.

CPCookieMan

Pwned

I guess you can trick it to install on older models by editing/removing the PlatformSupport.plist file.

CPCookieMan

Pwned wrote:

I guess you can trick it to install on older models by editing/removing the PlatformSupport.plist file.

Thanks, I'll be doing that to my copy so I can get it to install on my MacBook 3,1. It's good to know that these can be modded so easily, I sell a LOT of MacBooks on eBay refurb and it's a good business. If the OS is not supported (A' la Core Duo models) the price is cut in half.

CPCookieMan

Pwned

CPCookieMan wrote:

Thanks, I'll be doing that to my copy so I can get it to install on my MacBook 3,1. It's good to know that these can be modded so easily, I sell a LOT of MacBooks on eBay refurb and it's a good business. If the OS is not supported (A' la Core Duo models) the price is cut in half.

CPCookieMan

No problem. Here is also the SMBIOS information for your model:

Code:

Board Id: Mac-F4208CA9 
Model Id: MacBook3,1
BOOT ROM Version: MB31.008E.B01 
Serial Nr: W88033AKY51

CPCookieMan

Pwned wrote:

CPCookieMan wrote:

Thanks, I'll be doing that to my copy so I can get it to install on my MacBook 3,1. It's good to know that these can be modded so easily, I sell a LOT of MacBooks on eBay refurb and it's a good business. If the OS is not supported (A' la Core Duo models) the price is cut in half.

CPCookieMan

No problem. Here is also the SMBIOS information for your model:

Code:

Board Id: Mac-F4208CA9 
Model Id: MacBook3,1
BOOT ROM Version: MB31.008E.B01 
Serial Nr: W88033AKY51

I'll probably just go the remove route honestly, but thanks, I'll try that if it doesn't work.

CPCookieMan

welspcmac

I like it, it's a good improvement over Lion and definitely better than that stupid windows 8!

CPCookieMan

So I came home to a finished download, although it really hasn't been verified yet. Should I upload it to the BA server?

CPCookieMan

CPCookieMan

CPCookieMan wrote:

Pwned wrote:

CPCookieMan wrote:

Thanks, I'll be doing that to my copy so I can get it to install on my MacBook 3,1. It's good to know that these can be modded so easily, I sell a LOT of MacBooks on eBay refurb and it's a good business. If the OS is not supported (A' la Core Duo models) the price is cut in half.

CPCookieMan

No problem. Here is also the SMBIOS information for your model:

Code:

Board Id: Mac-F4208CA9 
Model Id: MacBook3,1
BOOT ROM Version: MB31.008E.B01 
Serial Nr: W88033AKY51

I'll probably just go the remove route honestly, but thanks, I'll try that if it doesn't work.

CPCookieMan

Wait... how do I remove this file again? The DMG is read only.

CPCookieMan

Pwned

-1. Unmount all previous installation medias (no matter if it's Snow Leopard, Lion, etc).
0. Make an empty 10 GB partition using Disk Utility (HFS+ Journaled).
1. Open up the package contents of "Install OS X Mountain Lion Preview 1.app".
2. Contents --> SharedSupport -->InstallESD.dmg
3. Mount that.
4. In Terminal:

Code:

open '/Volumes/Mac OS X Install ESD/BaseSystem.dmg'

5. If the command is stuck executing, press Ctrl+C to kill it, and try again.
6. Now you see the Base System window.
7. Using Disk Utility, apply that (not the .dmg, but the mounted Base System) to your empty partition you've created in step 0.
8. In Disk Utility, unmount your Base System (the one from .dmg).
9. In Terminal:

Code:

cd /Volumes; ls

10. You should have only Mac OS X Base System 1 in the list of volumes, no other Base Systems.
11. In Terminal:

Code:

cp '/Volumes/Mac OS X Install ESD/boot.efi' '/Volumes/Mac OS X Install ESD/kernelcache' '/Volumes/Mac OS X Install ESD/mach_kernel' '/Volumes/Mac OS X Base System 1'

12. In Terminal:

Code:

rm '/Volumes/Mac OS X Base System 1/System/Installation/Packages'

13. In Terminal:

Code:

cp -R '/Volumes/Mac OS X Install ESD/Packages' '/Volumes/Mac OS X Base System 1/System/Installation/'

14. Now unmount all DMGs, starting from the deepest one.
15. Now, on your 10 GB partition with Base System files, you can do whatever you want with the PlatformSupport.plist.
16. After you've edited/removed it, boot to that partition.
17. You will be presented by traditional style install with no hardware checks!
18. Install it.
19. After installation, you may also need to remove PlatformSupport.plist from already installed system.

INCZ

danielcarlhaffner wrote:

OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion is just more junk from Apple. Poor OS X. I feel sorry for it. Make a note that I used to be an Apple Fanboy. I'm am not anymore. So when I say things against Apple, iOS, OS X, Ect. Remember that I used to be an Apple Fanboy, I haven't always been a Windows and Linux fan. (Although I was a Windows user, just not a fan, before I used Apple Products briefly.)

have you actually ben running it?

Its actually very nice and its cool that they want to make it easier to sync with their own device's

INCZ

Pwned wrote:

-1. Unmount all previous installation medias (no matter if it's Snow Leopard, Lion, etc).
0. Make an empty 10 GB partition using Disk Utility (HFS+ Journaled).
1. Open up the package contents of "Install OS X Mountain Lion Preview 1.app".
2. Contents --> SharedSupport -->InstallESD.dmg
3. Mount that.
4. In Terminal:

Code:

open '/Volumes/Mac OS X Install ESD/BaseSystem.dmg'

5. If the command is stuck executing, press Ctrl+C to kill it, and try again.
6. Now you see the Base System window.
7. Using Disk Utility, apply that (not the .dmg, but the mounted Base System) to your empty partition you've created in step 0.
8. In Disk Utility, unmount your Base System (the one from .dmg).
9. In Terminal:

Code:

cd /Volumes; ls

10. You should have only Mac OS X Base System 1 in the list of volumes, no other Base Systems.
11. In Terminal:

Code:

cp '/Volumes/Mac OS X Install ESD/boot.efi' '/Volumes/Mac OS X Install ESD/kernelcache' '/Volumes/Mac OS X Install ESD/mach_kernel' '/Volumes/Mac OS X Base System 1'

12. In Terminal:

Code:

rm '/Volumes/Mac OS X Base System 1/System/Installation/Packages'

13. In Terminal:

Code:

cp -R '/Volumes/Mac OS X Install ESD/Packages' '/Volumes/Mac OS X Base System 1/System/Installation/'

14. Now unmount all DMGs, starting from the deepest one.
15. Now, on your 10 GB partition with Base System files, you can do whatever you want with the PlatformSupport.plist.
16. After you've edited/removed it, boot to that partition.
17. You will be presented by traditional style install with no hardware checks!
18. Install it.
19. After installation, you may also need to remove PlatformSupport.plist from already installed system.

Why make it 19 steps when you can make it 8-9 and without those commands? ;D

Pwned

INCZ wrote:

Why make it 19 steps when you can make it 8-9 and without those commands? ;D

It's for older model users (like MacBook2,1 or 3,1), which Apple dropped support for.

CaptainPeanut

INCZ wrote:

Pwned wrote:

-1. Unmount all previous installation medias (no matter if it's Snow Leopard, Lion, etc).
0. Make an empty 10 GB partition using Disk Utility (HFS+ Journaled).

Why make it 19 steps when you can make it 8-9 and without those commands? ;D

Did you realise there were 21 steps?
BTW, those work fine for the old white MacBook.

mathegenius

This is great. I wonder, if anyone is trying it out? :beta:

Pwned

mathegenius wrote:

This is great. I wonder, if anyone is trying it out? :beta:

Yeah, I already tried out, pretty cool. Some small changes like that make me happy (appears when copying files):

bradphipps

Pwned wrote:

mathegenius wrote:

This is great. I wonder, if anyone is trying it out? :beta:

Yeah, I already tried out, pretty cool. Some small changes like that make me happy (appears when copying files):

I'm pulling it down off the BA server now. Will try it out in about 9 hours...

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