Lion will not allow install. Reboot, hold down C key, Snow Leopard disk ejects.
MacPro 3 GHz, G4 400, Intel iMac, MacBook, Pismo PB, 1G iPod, Mac OS X (10.6.1), Alienware Aurora, Trek Y66, Ludwig Vistalites, Birth. Drums. Dea
Which system are you trying to load on? What did it come with, Lion or SL?
Early 2008 Mac Pro. It probably came with Panther but I could be wrong
Full retail SL disk with the pretty cat picture? Does the disk look damaged at all? Does this drive behave badly with disks? (I just found I need to take my Feb 2011 refurbished in because my SuperDrive just burned two almost perfect parallel lines from iner disk hub to disk outer edge ... 😮).
Yup on the pretty cat. Disk is in good shape.
Insert SL disk, start install process, gets rejected by Lion.
Tried restart, hold C key down. Half way through boot disk ejects.
I guess I'm gonna have to wait until the app provider gets a fix out.
Could be that Lion systems will not allow SL to partition the disk, assuming you are using the SL disk to change the partition (you did not say yay/nay).
You could boot into "Recovery Partition" and use Lion to re-partition the disk, but I would not do that myself without a VERY VERY good backup of my Lion system disk and a "Recovery Partition thumb drive" *just in case*.
But you may want to wait on "forum veterans" before trying any of my potentially destructive advice.
It's all on an external drive. I partitioned it before attempting to install SL.
Just because the cat is still pretty does not mean the install disk does not have invisible damage.
$29 spent *again* is worth having SL alongside Lion?
If it sounds like I am reaching ... I am. I am out of ideas.
Bought 10.6.3 from Apple. Same failure. Apple was nice enough to take disk back.
Now considering VMWare to virtualize system and load SL into partition that way.
Are you trying to virtualize SL or Lion?
Apple says "no" (else SL/Lion could run on any PC hardware anywhere). Only the "server" variants of SL/Lion run in VM.
If I read your last post incorrectly, please correct me.
I have Snow Leopard installed on a Mac that has Lion on another Drive. I have re-installed Snow Leopard recently.
SL. I'm at the point where I'll try anything to get SL to run so I can get an application running.
I've tried installing SL into a partition on a second drive. No go. I even pulled all the drives out of the system and tried booting with the install disk. System said the SL install disk didn't have the right drivers.
I wish I hadn't given my old G4 away to a local school.
Agreed.
I have installed Lion on an external disk while keeping SL on my internal for my Feb 2011 MBP.
But the OPs last post confused me when he said "VMWare to virtualize system ans install SL into partition that way".
I am just trying to nail down exactly what the OP was trying.
The snow leopard "Full Retail" disc has 10.6.3 on it. If your Mac is too new, 10.6.3 software is too old for that Mac, and it won't boot the disc.
If you have another Mac, you can sometimes install snow Leopard 10.6.3 onto the other Mac, run software update to get to 10.6.8, then clone that 10.6.8 onto your Mac Pro. But you have to start with the "Full Retail" or you don't get all the Drivers, and your other Mac has to be old enough to boot 10.6.3.
Mike-
I posted above, "out of order". You can use another one of your Macs, unless they are all brand new.
Install Snow Leopard into partition on system running Lion
