Re: MCL on latest Mac Mini

Hongbin Wang <[email protected]> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:34:06 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.mcl.general
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Andrew is right. FYI: I have successfully installed MCL on a VirtualBox VM running Snow Leopard, and the VM runs inside Lion on my newly purchased Mac Pro (Quad-Coe Intel Xeon). It seems MCL runs fine.

Hongbin


On Jan 14, 2012, at 7:32 PM, Andrew Shalit wrote:

> I don't know about downgrading, but it is definitely possible to run Snow Leopard inside a VMWare Fusion virtual machine running on Lion.  That Snow Leopard can then run Rosetta, and presumably MCL.
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> Depending on the version of Fusion you have, you may or may not need to trick it into thinking that you have Snow Leopard (or Lion?) Server.  That's easily done, though.  Apparently all you need to do is create a file with a certain name in a certain location.  Google/Bing is your friend in finding the details.
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> On Jan 14, 2012, at 5:32 PM, peter wrote:
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>> Can MCL run on a current i5 Mac Mini that's been back-graded to Snow Leopard?
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>> The Apple Store folks are a little ambiguous about whether a backgrade from Lion to SL is possible after a recent firmware upgrade.
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>> Any insights on this would be appreciated asap.
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