VM Ware? I'm running 10.6.8 on this Mac, 10.5.whatever on another and keep a few external HDs around and spare Macs and install images for this purpose.
On Nov 17, 2015, at 8:02 PM, Graham Cox wrote: > Yeah, Apple really make it hard to set up older OS installs for dev testing. > > If you copy the old installer to the hard disk partition and set it as the > boot drive and reboot, does that work? The installers are (I believe) > designed to run with no OS at all. > > —Graham > > > > > > >> On 18 Nov 2015, at 11:50 AM, Quincey Morris >> <quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com> wrote: >> >> I want to install 10.8.5 somewhere, to debug an app compatibility issue on >> that OS, but I can’t seem to figure out how. >> >> I have an empty hard disk I can use, but there’s nothing installed on it. >> I’ve got the Mountain Lion installer app from the App Store, but it won’t >> run under El Capitan. (It’s “too old” to run.) So, without an older OS X to >> run it on, I can’t get an older OS to run it on. (The Yosemite installer >> won’t run either.) >> >> What’s the right way to go about this? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) >> >> Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. >> Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com >> >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/graham.cox%40bigpond.com >> >> This email sent to graham....@bigpond.com > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/zav%40mac.com > > This email sent to z...@mac.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
