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Le 25 août 2010 à 03:39, Tony Romano a écrit :

Thanks for all the feedback. I found the updates and I found the combos. But I missed the full OS versions, where are they located? Google did not turn anything up except for retail and used sales.

Thanks again.

Tony Romano
http://www.cocoaegghead.com

On Aug 24, 2010, at 1:48 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:

On Aug 24, 2010, at 20:55, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:

Le 24 août 2010 à 19:44, Christiaan Hofman a écrit :

On Aug 24, 2010, at 19:19, Fritz Anderson wrote:

On 24 Aug 2010, at 12:06 PM, Tony Romano wrote:

Not sure where to post this but the question is closest to a development question.

I don't have previous versions of OS X prior to 10.6 (Well,I actually do have CDs for 10.2). The developer.apple.com site has a link to previous version of OS X all the way back to 10.2. I know I could down load it and try it but... Does anyone know if I can burn the .iso and install a version, let's say 10.5 or 10.4 on a new hard-drive? Or do these require the original OS there to update. I am referring to the combo updates.

The combo updates rely on the 10.x.0 (or later) version of the OS being installed already. I think Software Update should be able to download and install the latest point updates for back versions of the system, but there may be a limit on how far back that goes.

Remember you can't (or should not, but the installer should stop you) install a version of Mac OS X earlier than the point release delivered with the computer. The installed version is the first that includes the software the machine needs in order to run. This is why one keeps the restore disks that came with the computer.

— F

This is not completely correct, it's not about earlier or later versions. It has to do with having the same minor (the second number, like "6" in 10.6). A new machine could come with an 10.6.4 install disk, and you would still be able to use an 10.6.3 updater (for instance if you discover a bug that's very serious for you in 10.6.4). The point is that there is a difference between an install disk and a combo updater. The latter will only update a version with the same minor, while install disks (which cost money) always work. I haven't checked, but I doubt these links are to install disks, they probably are combo updaters, and therefore they have this restriction built-in.

Mac Developers (who payed 99$) have access to the full OS versions.

-- Jean-Daniel

References:
	>Previous Versions of OS X (From: Tony Romano <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Previous Versions of OS X (From: Fritz Anderson <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Previous Versions of OS X (From: Christiaan Hofman <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Previous Versions of OS X (From: Jean-Daniel Dupas <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Previous Versions of OS X (From: Christiaan Hofman <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Previous Versions of OS X (From: Tony Romano <email@hidden>)