Hi. again, I'd say check the firmware on the mac book to rule that out as a cause.
And you have installed sl with this disk on your other machine with no issues? Cameron. -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Snyder Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 5:31 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Snow Leopard dvd Hi Cameron and Sarah, Well, the people at the genius bar at my local Apple store, and the tech support people seemed to think that the disc should work as well. There was something weird going on though. I can boot from the disc and choose English as the language. When I click continue though, it comes up with a dialog that has a critical alert, and it says: "O S X can't be installed on this computer." Then there are options to restart or restore from backup. The first thing I tried was to upgrade Leopard 10.5.7 to 10.5.8. Oddly enough, the computer wouldn't allow me to make that upgrade. It said that the upgrade couldn't be installed on this computer. There was plenty of room on the drive, the processor is a 2.2GHZ Intel core Duo, and there was a gig of ram. So the techs suggested that I format the drive and do a fresh Snow Leopard install. Well, through tricking the disc into thinking I was going to restore from backup, I managed to access the disc utility, then I did a format of the 120GB main hard drive. When that was done, I tried again to install Snow Leopard, but I got the same error. It really is puzzling. Friendly, Chris On May 28, 2010, at 2:17 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > That's what I'm thinking. you can take that install disk and install it on to any mac. so dunno why you are getting th eissue. Are you able to remember the exact error message? > > Take care. > > S > On May 28, 2010, at 2:14 PM, Cameron wrote: > >> Hi. Hmmm. my understanding is that OS X is OS x, is OS x, except for the >> server edition. >> >> Because it's a mac book, could this be some sort of firmware issue? >> >> Cameron. >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Snyder >> Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 5:05 PM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Snow Leopard dvd >> >> Hi guys, >> I'm hoping someone here can confirm my experience so that I know if I've >> made the correct conclusion. I got my paws on a laptop with Leopard on it. >> It meets all of the system requirements for Snow leopard, but when I put the >> Snow Leopard disc that I got with my Mac Mini in to try to put it on the >> laptop, it said "OS X can't be installed on this computer." >> My conclusion after experimenting with a few different settings and tricks >> is that it wouldn't install because the disc was meant for the mini. I >> suppose if I buy a retail copy of Snow Leopard, it will work without >> difficulty. Has anyone else had this experience or something similar? >> I hope you all have a great weekend. >> >> Friendly, >> Chris >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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.