For instance MacBookPro5,2 or Macmini4,1 or whatever Search for the Model Identifier for your Mac.Paste the URL for each such English.dist file into your browser and open the Url.Below each such occurrence, notice a URL for a file with the same 041-XXXXX in it and ending in English.dist, e.g.

Notice in each such URL, the /041-2011/ or similar /041-XXXXX/ bit of it.For instance, the one I needed is 041-2011/pRtCDYcWShMLxFgg圓TzFzmfnnWQNFQBfJ/ BootCampESD.pkg Search for each occurrence - as at August 2012 there were 6 - of BootCampESD.pkg.Instead, open it in a text editor or word processor.My steps to download the Lion or Mountain Lion drivers were as follows: How to Manually Download Windows Drivers for Macs Running BootCamp 4 or BootCamp 5 Tim Valenta did instructions in Nov 2011 that nearly worked for me in June 2012 at except that again, 6 months on, the catalog file seems to be laid out everso slightly differently and the file downloaded is now in an easier to use format.How to find the right one for your machine? The sucatalog file in question contains several different links to bootcampesd.pkg, fordifferent Mac models. Apple software update uses an sucatalog file, which contains a link to a BootCampESD.pkg file which contains the drivers.The DIY way to find your BootCampESD.pkg download link from the sucatalog There are also older links here, but they appear to be redundant - the Mountain Lion file covers Mac models going back to Leopard.įinally, the DIY solution: Work out for yourself which download link you need. The simple solution – recommended – is to use this list of Windows driver download links for Macs with OS X Mountain Lion (which includes all retina display macs) or Lion, Snow Leopard or Leopard. The brute force solution: it's a darned large download, so physically take your machine to somewhere with a very fast internet connection that can download 600MB - 1GB in a couple of minutes. Do you find that BootCamp assistant download is stuck or or fails or could not continue?

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