My wife's iMac is running 10.6.8. I would like to upgrade her to Mavericks and have already prepared a thumb drive with DiskMaker X. As part of the process, I would like to create a recovery partition to use in emergencies going forward. My tentative process is
- Back up!
- Boot from an external disk. Part of previous step is a SuperDuper! (SD) update.
- Erase the internal disk.
- Run Mavericks installer from thumb drive. This is a 'clean' install due to the previous step, so it's supposed to offer to create a recovery partition.
- Boot again from the SD external and use SD to clone it back to the internal disk's main partition after erasing it.
- Boot from internal disk.
- Back at the original system, run the Mavericks installer again to install over 10.6.8, leaving all my files in place.
To reinstall the Mac App Store for a Snow Leopard system on which it has been removed, you can perform the following steps: Download the OS X 10.6.6 Combo updater and mount the disk image. You have a major problem, as OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard, released in 2009) is too old to support the current iTunes needed to support iOS 9. You need at least OS X 10.8.5 to run the current iTunes. If you are running 10.6 (Snow Leopard) then your Mac is fairly old. Most likely, it’s too old to run the current OS X. Several models ran 10.6 (Snow Leopard) but not 10.7 (Lion.).
I also run Time Machine - it too is part of the above back up step. I can replace steps 5-7 above with the Migration Assistant pulling my stuff from my TM disk. Which way is preferable? Are there other methods?My feeling is my 7 step plan is safer because it does not involve moving user directories and applications, etc., back into place from TM.
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