[geeks] OSX 10.6.x Install disc images?

[JP Hindin]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2016, Michael-John Turner wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 02:24:46PM -0600, JP Hindin wrote:
>> Anyone any good at debugging Mac binaries to break an installers graphics
>> card check? :)
>
> Hmm, this is probably not an ideal suggestion, but you could go the route
> of running 10.8 or later on the iMac and then run Final Cut in a 10.6 VM.
> With the improvements in hardware since it was released, I'd imagine
> performance would be fairly decent. May be easier than trying to hack an
> older OS release onto unsupported hardware...

I don't think this'll work, although I appreciate the response.

I have OSX installed fine, 10.6.3 runs on the iMac like a dream.

FCP won't install because it can't identify the graphics hardware. I 
suspect that any virtual software is going to present as a generic 
graphics card which won't help because FCP requires some minimum hardware 
level which the generic card is almost guaranteed not to match.

That being said, at this point it's worth a bloody try.

Where's my VMWare Fusion disc....? :)

  - JP