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Onyx 10.5.8 Mac OS X Version 10

He has Mac OS X version 10.5.8.

When we tried to upgrade it the OS reported that there are no updates available.

In your friends case 10.5 - 10.6 is a upgrade that costs money.

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From there, if the machine meets the requirements for 10.6 the process is to run the installer and replace upgrade any peripherals and software that no longer work.

Again, if the hardware is compatible, you can jump to Mavericks to free (though unlikely for most 10.5 era hardware).

If you are sure you bought it brand new in stores between 2009-2010, it was probably what Wikipedia calls the Early 2009 model.

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What you might be able to do, is just make a virgin 10.5 install onto something like an external HDD.

After which you could use the restore function of disk utility to essentially clone that drive to any other.

Its not quite the same as what youre looking for, but it should more or less achieve the same purpose.

Of course I am assuming youre looking to make an updated OS install disc, not some kind of LiveCD type thing.

It should be possible to do that as well, given that the Mac OS X installer is basically a stripped down OS X booting off a DVD, but I would think your primary issue would be one of space.

The 10.5 install DVD is a DL disc, though if you go in and get rid of either the x86 or PPC stuff, you can shrink it down.

You would also need to make sure that the OS was configured to boot into a read-only mode, probably using RAM disks, and there may be some programs which will not play nicely with this config.

That works fine. The only problem is its not a convenient solution like a DVD would be.

I think I need a bit more help understanding the last paragraph - I understand almost all of the words, but none of the sentences Burning a DL disk is not a problem, but how do I put together the right code and burn it to a DVD to be a 10.5.8 system when its installed Can I use an installed and updated system as the basis, or do I need to juggle the contents of packages from the install DVD and the updater around.

If you extracted all the files out of the combo installer, and then just copied them over to a disk image of the 10.5 install DVD, that might well work.

Otherwise, the idea of having a master copy somewhere that you would create an image from and restore it is certainly a viable option.

Once youve made that master image, you could presumably burn that onto a DVD, though some sort of USB drive or even an SD card (if you have a model with the SD card reader built-in) would be much faster.

I will add that burned DVDs tend to have very short shelf lives.

If its a really expensive and good quality DVD, and you take good care of it, then maybe 10-15 years.

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