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How long did it take to install Snow Leopard on your mini?
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About an hour for my erase and install. The time bar was out throughout though, I think it said 32 minutes remaining for most of the install process...
You can't install from an ISO (or DMG) directly. You have to restore it to a drive. (Although there is supposed to be a disc image boot capability in SL).
Take an image of the DVD, scan image for restore, restore image to drive of choice.
yeah mine went by in about that same time frame. maybe an hour over 8GB flash drive.
if you don't know how to do it there are many guides on google and many guides here on MR.
If you're only doing it on one machine then no this isn't the way to go.
First up you have to create an image of the SL install disc. Then you have to scan the image for restore. Then you have to restore it to the USB drive.
That whole process will take you a little over an hour. In which time you could have just installed snow leopard using the dvd.
The reason I did it was because I have 5 machines scattered about the place. One of which has a dodgy dvd drive presently which didn't like the SL dvd. So it kind of made sense for me. The install on my Pro was around the same amount of time. Maybe marginally quicker.
Same for me - mine seemed like it was stuck on 32 minutes and then 28 minutes forever.
Unfortunately, I'm going to need to reinstall - I'm having troubles with me CS3 suite.
Mac Pro (Desktops) no faster
My Mac Pro Quad-Core 2.66 MHz took no less time than it took for you mini owners. Who knows why? I have a large disk drive that's not nearly full. That should have left plenty of room for optimization.
My Mac Pro Quad-Core 2.66 MHz took no less time than it took for you mini owners. Who knows why? I have a large disk drive that's not nearly full. That should have left plenty of room for optimization.
I have an iMac and this thing has been a nightmare to install. I had to upgrade from OS X 10.4.11. The Apple people told me no problem, buy the $29 disc and its cake. Well the disc kept prompting me to restart every time. Then after an hour on the phone with tech support I was able to get it going. So now I sit here 5 hours later with the install telling me:
12 minutes remaining. I'm tempted to turn the computer off but dont want to risk anything.
12 minutes remaining. I'm tempted to turn the computer off but dont want to risk anything.
dont have a mini...but this is what i do for my ibook
-boot dvd
-using disk utility make two partitions (second partition about 5 gigs)
-install (i prefer custom install leaving out items i know i wouldn't use)
-once in osx update update update
-install program carbon copy
-make a image and place on second partition
now in future if you ever have to do clean install just use disk utility to restore from image on second partition (will install very fast and be updated and ready to go)
-boot dvd
-using disk utility make two partitions (second partition about 5 gigs)
-install (i prefer custom install leaving out items i know i wouldn't use)
-once in osx update update update
-install program carbon copy
-make a image and place on second partition
now in future if you ever have to do clean install just use disk utility to restore from image on second partition (will install very fast and be updated and ready to go)
Keep a small 8GB partition on an external drive and it will take about 30 minutes over USB 2.0, 25 over FireWire 400 and under 20 on FW 800. It's the 1st thing I do whenever I get a new Mac. I make an image of the install disk because the 1st time I had to format and reload a mac it took hours!!!