Finally, I copied the original disk image (as a. Then I went through the personalization with each one. I "restored" this image to a few destinations-a toolkit, of sorts-a USB hard drive, FireWire HD, USB flash drive, and even a SDHC card. My method (and I will freely admit this was not my original idea) is to use a disk image of a 10.6.8 working HD that has not yet been through the personalization. Like the original poster, I've found a number of machines that require a Snow Leopard installer higher than what may be available (since the owners of those machines have invariably lost their discs and/or have bricked their optical drives). You can boot any ready for Snow Leopard Mac with this Installer. I had problems getting the Backup utility in Disk Utility to do this. When the Disk Utility is done, use SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the modified 10.6.7 Installer to the 8 gig keychain drive. Choose the GUID partition choice and close the window. Now click Partition, chose 1 Partition, give it a name and click the Options button. Find the drive on the left side of the Disk Utility window and click on it.
We do this because the retail installation script won't install the 10.6.7 printer packages. Replace the existing OSInstall.mpkg file with the one from the retail disk plus copy over all the printer related Installer packages.
If you have an Apple computer made after the Core 2 Duos, the 10.6.3 retail disk may not boot, and the 10.6.0 version won't boot at all.
Why do we need this? Because Apple quit releasing full retail versions of Snow Leopard with 10.6.3.