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You may burn them to disk now or do it later.ĥ. Quit Boot Camp Assistant after downloading the drivers.

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Step 4 of the Boot Camp v4 Installation and Set-up Guide tells you how to get the drivers again.ģ. If you have trouble with this it isn't a big deal.

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You need the Windows 7 installer disk for this.

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Launch Boot Camp Assistant, download and burn the apple drivers to disk. keeping these up to date as time passes.Ģ. In addition, if the stick is large enough (16GB or better) you can partition the stick into three, use one for your 10.7 installer, one for a 10.6.8.1 installer and the last little one for the 10.7.2 combo updater and the 10.6.8 combo updater. The stick will be faster to use in the future. I noticed it tried to charge me and I had to escalate to senior staff at customer care to get it corrected back to free.Ĭreate a 10.7 installation DVD or create an installer on a USB stick. HOWEVER, watch your wallet as the App store may not honor this freebie. Since your mac came with Lion the download is free.

The instructions are near the end of the article. Follow the instructions near the end of this article to redownload a Lion installer. Therefore, 10.6 gets the majority of my HD space, Windows 30GB and Lion 50GB.ġ. I only use Windows for a couple of applications and don’t need much storage there. I’ll mainly be working in 10.6.8 as several of the applications I use regularly are running fine in 10.6 and I don’t want to mess with uncertainty during the work week. I don’t like Lion very much so far, so am only giving it a token 50 GB partition, just enough to keep it installed and up to date to see how it develops.

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I suspect this is a problem that could be resolved by running boot camp 4 on 10.6, but without an install disc there doesn't seem to be an easy way to locate that installer.įor this protocol you need your new MacBook Pro which came with Lion installed (late 2011) and an older Macintosh capable of booting off earlier version of 10.6 such as the Mid 2009 MacBook Pro which I am using to run this protocol.įor this I used: New MacBook Pro 2.2 Ghz 500GB internal (New Mac) Mid 2009 MacBook Pro running 10.6.8 (Old Mac) Retail 10.6.3 Installation DVD Downloaded Mac 10.6.8.1 Combo Updater Windows 7 Ultimate Installation DVD Firewire 800 cable 16GB USB stick. The real problem, I suppose, is that 10.7 can coexist with both windows and the recovery partition, but 10.6 cannot. I know this question is deceptively similar to one that's been asked consistently, and perhaps I wasn't clear enough with my initial post. That's my work, so upgrading to 10.7 is a non-starter at the moment. I'm using 10.6 because I use several audio plugins that haven't been updated to run in lion yet. Nevertheless, it seems like a clumsy solution when running a copy of boot camp 4 from 10.6 would appear to work. I'd still prefer to keep that partition, but I suppose I can go that route if I have to. I was under the impression that the net install ran from the recovery partition, so you are correct that I could safely delete it. Boot camp 4 apparently works on 10.6, but apple doesn't offer it as a download and my computer didn't ship with an install disc. That being said, having an OSX partition, the recovery partition, and windows is clearly not a problem in boot camp 4, since that's the default arrangement in lion. I don't intend to install refit, and having a windows installation isn't so important to me that I'm going to go to great lengths to get it. I'm sorry if I'm posting unnecessarily, but I couldn't find any proper answers to my specific problem. With all due respect, I've read those articles and I don't think any directly address my question.