Snow Leopard is the gateway to update your Mac to a newer operating system via Apple Purchases. Having seen the negative reviews, I thought I'd give it a go and see what happens. Nothing to lose. Well, imagine my surprise when I copied the iso to a USB stick, stuck it into my 2008 MacBook Pro and it worked beautifully. Bootcamp is a software package Apple provides with each Mac OS X version. Bootcamp incorporates drivers and foundation software for Apple Mac hardware in Windows platform. You can set up a Windows partition from Mac using Bootcamp assistant. The most-recent variant of Bootcamp is 3.2 and is designed to work with Mac OS Snow Leopard. Note: This guide can be used for installation of both Native/Hackintosh Retail Snow Leopard OR OSx86 distro like Leopard Kalyway 10.5.6 and SnowOSX v3.x Snow Leopard. In other words no matter what version of Mac OS X you wish to install via USB, this method works. The credit goes to holyfield for his basic guide.
updated October 2012. Go to the newer http://www.cafe-encounter.net/p682/download-bootcamp-drivers.
See BootCampESD.pkg download instructions for the DIY instructions on how to work out these links yourself.
Older download links for Windows drivers for Mac models to 2011
Use these instructions if BootCamp Assistant fails to download the drivers for you.
Mac Snow Leopard Download
- Find your model in the table below. Click the link to get the download package. Be patient as they are 600MB to over 1GB.
- Q: How do you find out your Mac's Model Identifier?
A: Open System Information, and look in the Hardware Overview section.
In other words: Click Apple menu -> About this Mac -> More Info… -> System Report -> Hardware. Now, read down list in the Hardware Overview panel, looking for Model Identifier
- Q: How do you find out your Mac's Model Identifier?
- Once your pkg is downloaded, double click it and install to a folder on your hard drive so you know where to find it.
- The folder contains a nest of folders, the last of which contains a dmg disk image file. Double click to open. Voila. Here are your Windows installer files.
- Copy them to a usb drive, or a burnable CD. NB, it's 600MB or even over 1GB. A CD is usually max 800MB.
- Done. You can now proceed with Boot Camp assistant Windows installation.
Boot Camp Mac Snow Leopard Download Iso
BootCamp Drivers Download Links for Macs running OS X Lion and Snow Leopard
Leopard Print Snow Boots
Models | Drivers Download link |
MacBookPro9,1 | |
iMac12,1 | |
MacBookPro10,1 | |
MacBookAir3,1 | |
MacBookAir4,1 | |
MacBook2,1 |