Bootable usb mac os x mountain lion12/18/2023 Surprisingly, there is no version check in the command line version of MLPostfactor and this method actually works to create the 10.8.4 installer partition. Sudo installer -package Base.pkg -target /Volumes/ Your installer disk name Apparently there is another MLPostfactor.app folder inside the original MLPostfactor app which can be invoked using the following command to patch the installer: cd /path/to/MLPostFactor.app/Contents/Resources/MLPostFactor.app/Contents/Resources My relief came when I read this article which showed me how to use MLPostfactor from the command line. I did not attempt this method because it seemed time consuming and most importantly, I had no installer disc for 10.7. A workaround would be to use MLPostfactor 0.2, which can run on Snow Leopard, to upgrade the system first to 10.7, and from there upgrade it to 10.8 by running MLPostfactor 0.3 again. I tried to trick it by changing the system version number in /System/Library/CoreServices/ist but things would still not work – MLPostfactor started but could not find Install OS X Mountain Lion.app in the Applications folder even though the installer was clearly there. The user interface for version 0.3 of MLPostfactor apparently only supports OS X Lion (10.7) and will refuse to run on 10.6. To make it easier to switch the boot partition without holding the Option key, you may also want to install a boot manager such as rEFIt. Versions 10.8.5 or above are not supported, so make sure that your installer is of the right version. After that, download MLPostfactor 0.3 from here, needed to patch the original Mountain Lion installer disk, which does not support the Mac Mini 2006, to run on your machine.Īs at the time of writing this article (May 2015), MLPostfactor 0.3 only supports Mac OS up to 10.8.4. Next, get your Mountain Lion installer media ready – which can be a. The final configuration, 2GHz Core 2 Duo with 4GB RAM and 128GB SSD, will make your Mac Mini 2006 machine performance more or less in line with the Mac Mini 2009, a much later model.īefore you proceed you will need to upgrade the OS on your Mac Mini to Snow Leopard 10.6.8, the last officially supported version. And while you are at it, take the time to upgrade the hard disk (a 2.5″ SATA drive) to an SSD, preferably 128GB or more. The machine can only use around 3.3 GB out of the total of 4GB that is recognized, due to limitations of the 32-bit processor. If it still doesn’t work, try to do a PRAM reset.
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