Is there an alternate method to installing 10.6? my disk drive doesn't work
I've purchased osx 10.6 for my 2008 17-inch Macbook Pro and received the disk in the mail, but my disk drive doesn't seem to be working. I was wondering if I could get some kind of flash drive or mountable disk image file that might be available for download or something? Anything except paying to get the disk drive fixed because i never use it anyway
I had to uninstall itunes, and now I don't want to install it because I won't be able to use my player.
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