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May 4, 2012 8:38 PM in response to Gale Forceby Niel,You need to use a second partition or drive for Snow Leopard. If your computer shipped with Mac OS X 10.6, install its original disks onto the desired location. If your computer shipped with Mac OS X 10.5 or earlier, you'll need a Mac OS X 10.6 DVD(unless you used Lion's USB thumbdrive, you'll have gotten one as part of the upgrade process.)
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May 4, 2012 8:40 PM in response to Gale Forceby petermac87,Gale Force wrote:
i have no money so the solution needs to be free.
Can anyone help?
To make this easy to start with, do you own a copy of Snow Leopard on DVD and have you already purchased Lion from the App Store?
Pete
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May 4, 2012 8:42 PM in response to petermac87by Gale Force,my macbook pro came with lion on it and i do have a copy of Snow Leopard on DVD
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May 4, 2012 8:44 PM in response to Gale Forceby Limnos,I cannot say for sure but usually a computer cannot boot to an earlier OS version than that with which it was supplied. Is this SL DVD a retail version or one that came with another Mac?
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May 4, 2012 8:44 PM in response to Nielby Gale Force,It shipped with Lion, also how do you make a partition.
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May 4, 2012 8:47 PM in response to Gale Forceby baltwo,Doesn't matter, since your machine most likely won't run with Snow Leopard. Until you ascertain that's possible, review the help files for Disk Utility.
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May 4, 2012 8:47 PM in response to Gale Forceby Niel,You need to install the Snow Leopard DVD on another Mac, update that system to Mac OS X 10.6.8, and then clone or move the installed system to your computer; if desired, use the Disk Utility in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder to partition the drive.
If attempting to boot the computer from the Mac OS X 10.6.8 system only yields three beeps at startup, the system is too old and your only option on that machine is to run Mac OS X Server 10.6 in emulation.
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May 4, 2012 8:48 PM in response to Gale Forceby Limnos,Pondini: Formatting, Partitioning, Verifying, and Repairing Disks... - http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/DU.html
but I wouldn't just launch into this. I suspect your computer cannot run Snow Leopard as a major boot system. There may be virtualization options, but if you don't know how to partition a drive then 2 pages of instruction using command lines to achieve virtualization may take a bit of easing into. I haven't really gone into it myself, though I do recall discussions questioning legality.