Mike first of all Snow Leopard is a full-functioning os and not an upgrade like windows at least used to do. In other words, you do not have to have Leopard installed to install Snow Leopard and in fact you can erase your existing drive and do a clean install. You do not use command-c to boot from the DVD, you instead hold the c key down immediately after you hear the startup chime and this will cause the machine to boot from the DVD or you can launch the app from the DVD that simply redirects the boot process to the DVD upon restarting the machine. The Disk utility application is available from the Utilities menu once you have the DVD booted and you get passed the language selection screen. I hope this helps clear things up for you.
On Aug 25, 2009, at 10:49 AM, Mike wrote: > > Hi all: > > I'm not clear on the new snow leopard install method. > It sound fine if you want to stick the DVD in and upgrade over a > previous version of Leopard. > How ever, can the command C be used while the machine is powering up, > to access the bootable DVD and install a fresh Snow Leopard with VO > assistance? > How does one access the disk utility to erace? On the Mac HD or on the > Snow Leopard DVD? > I still would prefer a clean OS install from the ground up rather than > apply an OS over a previous one. If Snow Leopard requires a previous > version of Leopard to run, then it isn't a true OS in my opinion. Not > saying it won't be stable andwork flawlessly but still not a complete > OS. > > Mike > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
