Hi!
I have Mountain Lion installed on my macbook and I want to install Snow Leopard.How do I do it?
I am trying to boot my mac holding the C key but it is not working.
what should I do?
thx
You need to backup everything with either TM or preferably a
SuperDuper or CarbonCopy Cloner
clone.
Then you need to erase your HD and re-install SL and migrate what you can from your TM bkup or clone.
If I simply use Disk Utility to erase my HD will It boot from my SL CD?
You cannot erase the system you are booted from, so you need to boot from the install disk and erase the internal disk from there. Is this disk the original install disk that came with the machine or a different one?
I bought the Snow Leopard CD but I can not boot from it. I bought the Mountain Lion form Apple store.
Well, I have no idea why you can't boot from it if it's the disk that came with that machine. I only have one more idea: if you have an external hard drive, see if you can install the SL on that external. If that works, then attach it to your Mac and boot from the external, erase the internal disk and then clone the SL system from the external to the internal.
Oh, and one last idea for trying to boot from the install disk: after inserting the SL CD, have you tried to use the Startup Preference Pane in System Preferences to choose the SL CD and hit Restart?
Please go to Menu > About this Mac > and tell us Version, Processor & Memory specs on your Mac. also available hard disk space.
I think I am not being able to boot from a SL cd because it is not compatible with I5 processors. I think this is it. I am hearing some beeps on my notebook when it starts to read the CD.
That's what I'm trying to determine, you can't boot from a system less than the one your Mac shipped with.
Thank you guys very much!
Ahhh, I missed the little but ever so important "bought" in your post - yes, macjack is absolutely correct: you generally cannot boot any Mac from a system older than what it came with. I thought yours originally had Snow Leopard.
Which OS version did it come with?
I think it came with Lion. The problem is that I am having some issues with an equipment that I use to work.But I guess I will have to wait for an update.
thank you
Install Snow Leopard on Mountain Lion
