How to install a new version of OSX on a 2009 MacBook?
Post date: 2020-04-01 04:36:01
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How to install a new version of OSX on a 2009 MacBook? Without leaving home?

Okay, so.

My mom rescued a 2009 MacBook from a free pile before the lockdown. During the lockdown, I've updated the RAM to 4GB (thanks ebay), and established that the current OS of 10.5.8 is not gonna work for almost anything.

I downloaded an ISO of the 10.6 installer from Internet Archive (apparently it's abandonware now), followed instructions online to put that image onto a usb stick (both by "Restore" from Disk Utility on a mac, and dd on a linux machine). Either way I did it, I ended up with a big friendly mac installer that says I need to burn it onto a DVD whenever I launch it, and that can't be used as a boot disk.

Am I doing something obviously wrong? Any other suggestions?
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