Snow Leopard Install Disk - Problem

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Snow Leopard Install Disk - Problem

Hi all.

I have a Snow Leopard Install Disk for the 13-inch Macbook Pro model.

I also have a 21-inch iMac. I have OS X Lion installed on both. I have Snow Leopard installed as a partition on my Macbook Pro, which I installed via the install disk. I want to do the same thing for my iMac but I am unable due to (seemingly) my install disk is for a Macbook Pro and not for an iMac.

Does anyone know a way around this? Why won't this work?

I'm lost. Please help.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Mar 31, 2012 8:43 AM

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den.thed

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Mar 31, 2012 11:46 AM in response to Community User

1. You can not use a system specific Install Disc with a different Mac.

2. You can not install an earlier OS X version than the pre-installed version.

see > Don't install a version of Mac OS X earlier than what came with your Mac

I personally have not tried it, but there is hope that you can install and run the "Retail version" of 10.6 on a pre-installed Lion system with VMware Fusion.

see > VMware Fusion update lets users virtualize Leopard, Snow Leopard | Macworld

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