[ToXiC625]

I was just wondering if anyone has tryed to install Snow Leopard Beta onto their Dell Mini 9??? I know acouple people who have installed on their macbook and macbook pro's and love it and i was wondering if anyone has given it a shot with a mini?

[oskArtist]

Not only is this illegal (unless you're a Apple dev), why would you want to do this?

[B3ND3R]

Originally Posted by oskArtist

Not only is this illegal (unless you're a Apple dev), why would you want to do this?

Well, setting aside the "legality" issue for a moment, Snow Leopard is a leaner code which should make it awesome for netbooks.

I think our community will eventually really benefit from Snow Leopard given Apple's reluctance to release a netbook (while simultaneously releasing an OS that would seem to be optimized for one).

[oskArtist]

Originally Posted by B3ND3R

Well, setting aside the "legality" issue for a moment, Snow Leopard is a leaner code which should make it awesome for netbooks.

I think our community will eventually really benefit from Snow Leopard given Apple's reluctance to release a netbook (while simultaneously releasing an OS that would seem to be optimized for one).

I fully agree, albeit the OS is still in alpha and is very instable.
I think we should wait until it goes /public/ beta and see what happens then.

[B3ND3R]

I concur, but if one of our very talented programmers wanted to get a jump on it...

[DaoFerret]

Originally Posted by oskArtist

Not only is this illegal (unless you're a Apple dev), why would you want to do this?

No, it isn't.

If you have an Apple Developer Connection subscription then you would have access to the Snow Leopard beta without downloading it through BitTorrent or something. Then it would have about the same legality as using a Retail DVD does when you install Leopard on a mini9.

The cheapest level with this access is ~$500 http://developer.apple.com/products/membership.html.

On the plus side, when I last signed up, they also sent me a retail copy of Leopard as part of my initial subscription (which I plan to use on my mini9 as soon as its ready ). There are a couple of other perks included, but nothing that really justifies it unless you are either 1) a developer, or 2) planning to buy a MacPro. The subscription includes 1 discount on Apple Hardware which as ~20% off a MacPro (which drops the initial price by $500) and anything you put in it (which can increase your savings past the break even point if you're spending that kind of money anyway), but only ~5-10% off a MacMini and other Apple machines.

As for "why would you want to?"

I haven't had a chance to look at Snow Leopard myself, but from what I understand Apple is focusing on speed/stability (which is always nice in a device tight for resources) and was rumored to be dropping PowerPC support, which could mean smaller binaries without having to strip them, for a smaller install footprint, which would make those with 8GB drives happier (if true), and probably would make others also happy if an OS install actually SHRANK instead of the usual Bloat.

Baring that in mind, lots of people are curious/interested if/how Snow Leopard will run on the mini9, hence the original posters question.

[bmaltais]

Last time I installed Snow Leopard the installation size was larger than Leopard... even so if applications overall where leaner... Not sure where the extra fat was.

That version of the beta was only including 64bit so the Mini 9 would not even boot from it in single user mode.

[tap16]

I'm not sure on this, but isn't snow leopard only 64 bit?

[meklort]

Originally Posted by tap16

I'm not sure on this, but isn't snow leopard only 64 bit?

Nope, never has been 64bit only, every seed has included 32bit.
In order to actually boot the dvd, you have to replace the boot loader in the boot-132 dvd with an updated one that can load the new kernel (possibly because it now includes 3 diff architectures instead of two. If you try to boot the dvd after that, you will get a kernel panic.

[UnaClocker]

I'm chompin at the bit to give Snow Leopard a whirl on my machine. I love to be on the bleeding edge.