10.5.5 Installed but not boot camp utility found
Hey Everyone,
So I am a college student, also a MBP owner, who works at my school's "Help Desk." I had someone come in the other day with a MacBook Pro 2.16 Ghz Core Duo processor, so it must have come with 10.4 I think (Correct me if I'm wrong, please), but the machine had 10.5. She was looking to have boot camp set up except when I went to run the utility it certainly was not on there.
From there I tried running updates to see if that might update it or something and still nothing.
So basically, I am just wondering how I might go about putting boot camp on there. Would 10.5 have to be reinstalled entirely? Or is there an independent installer that could be an option?
I'd appreciate any help that I get.
Thank you,
Smerky
Perform a custom install from the Mac OS X 10.5 disks and install only that component if possible; if not, use Pacifist to install it. In either case, rerun the combo updater for your Mac OS X version afterwards.
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