[OSX-Users] Re: MacOS X 10.6 Snow Leopard now available

[Ben Hodgson]

Tom,
Is there any reason that you couldn't just download the boot camp drivers
from the Apple website and burn them to a separate disk?

Ben

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On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Andrew Paul Landells
<apl at ecs.soton.ac.uk>wrote:

> I'd guess you'd probably need to track down the original DVD, rather than
> an image thereof. I have one at home, but I'm away from the office for the
> next two weeks, so won't be able to bring it in until the start of term.
>
> Regards,
>
> On 11 Sep 2009, at 13:45, mc wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:15:01 +0100, Tom Hebbron <teh07r at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> As is normally the way, I've answered my own question. It seems that the
>>> ISO file on \\software is the HFS+ partition only, not the full hybrid
>>> disk and doesn't include the ISO partition with the Windows drivers on.
>>> Can anyone confirm this, and where can I get the bits from the missing
>>> partition from?
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for raising this TOm,
>> will be keen to hear a reply, too.
>> mc
>>
>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Tom.
>>>
>>> Tom Hebbron wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sorry if I'm being a bit thick, but is this the full retail version?
>>>> I  burnt a DL-DVD, upgraded the Mac side fine, but there doesn't seem
>>>> to be any bootcamp related stuff on the DVD?
>>>>
>>>> I've managed to get Windows 7 installed on a partition, but can't for
>>>> the life of me see how to get the drivers off the Snow Leopard DVD.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions gratefully received...
>>>>
>>>> Tom.
>>>>
>>>> Jules wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have just put the final retail version of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow
>>>>> Leopard on the software server at
>>>>> cifs://software.ecs.soton.ac.uk/software.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you don't know how to mount that drive, click on the desktop
>>>>> background anywhere, and then choose Go / Connect to Server... from
>>>>> the menu. Enter "cifs://software/software" or
>>>>> "cifs://software.ecs.soton.ac.uk/software" in the dialog and log in
>>>>> with your usual ECS username and password.
>>>>>
>>>>> Open the following folder: images / apple / Snow.Leopard and then
>>>>> read the README.txt file in there to see what to do next.
>>>>>
>>>>> I strongly advise you ensure you have an up to date backup before you
>>>>> start installing it.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm sure you can figure it out! Any problems, ask your nearest
>>>>> sysprog/./
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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