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Q: I need to run Lion and Snow Leopard on the same computer

i have no money so the solution needs to be free.

Can anyone help?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on May 4, 2012 8:34 PM

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Q: I need to run Lion and Snow Leopard on the same computer

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  • by Niel,

    Niel Niel May 4, 2012 8:38 PM in response to Gale Force
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    May 4, 2012 8:38 PM in response to Gale Force

    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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  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 May 4, 2012 8:40 PM in response to Gale Force
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    May 4, 2012 8:40 PM in response to Gale Force

    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

  • by Gale Force,

    Gale Force Gale Force May 4, 2012 8:42 PM in response to petermac87
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    May 4, 2012 8:42 PM in response to petermac87

    my macbook pro came with lion on it and i do have a copy of Snow Leopard on DVD


  • by Limnos,

    Limnos Limnos May 4, 2012 8:44 PM in response to Gale Force
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    May 4, 2012 8:44 PM in response to Gale Force

    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?

  • by Gale Force,

    Gale Force Gale Force May 4, 2012 8:44 PM in response to Niel
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    May 4, 2012 8:44 PM in response to Niel

    It shipped with Lion, also how do you make a partition.

  • by Gale Force,

    Gale Force Gale Force May 4, 2012 8:46 PM in response to Limnos
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    May 4, 2012 8:46 PM in response to Limnos

    another mac

  • by baltwo,

    baltwo baltwo May 4, 2012 8:47 PM in response to Gale Force
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    May 4, 2012 8:47 PM in response to Gale Force

    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.

  • by Niel,

    Niel Niel May 4, 2012 8:47 PM in response to Gale Force
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    May 4, 2012 8:47 PM in response to Gale Force

    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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  • by Limnos,

    Limnos Limnos May 4, 2012 8:48 PM in response to Gale Force
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    May 4, 2012 8:48 PM in response to Gale Force

    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.