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Aug 25, 2013 5:59 PM in response to ewtby babowa,So, you booted from the Snow Leopard DVD? And then used Disk Utility from the DVD to erase the drive? Then tried to reinstall the OS?
Did your Mac come with Snow Leopard preinstalled?
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Aug 26, 2013 12:56 AM in response to babowaby ewt ,I just tried that on my IMAC and it did the same thing, except this time I didn't erase HDD in IMAC
Both computer come with 10.5. about a year later I upgrade both to 10.6 and both were working fine.
Now for some reason, both computer say mac os cannot be installed on this computer.
So what should I do next??
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Aug 26, 2013 3:09 AM in response to ewtby Eau Rouge,The 10.6 disc is looking for a previous version of Mac OSX 10, either 10.5 (any version) or OSX 10.4.11
if the 10.6 installer does not find a earlier version of Mac OSX 10 as mentioned above, it will not install 10.6
so go back to your original 10.5 install disc(s) install that then install 10.6 again over that (don't erase), hopefully that will sort your problem.
you could try this link for more information
http://www.macworld.com/article/1142454/install_snow_leopard.html
Hope it goes well
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Aug 26, 2013 5:03 AM in response to Eau Rougeby ewt ,Thank You Eau Rogue,
The IMAC I have is currently on 10.5.8 which is the latest for 10.5 version,
but It still giving me the same error too >>_<<
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Aug 26, 2013 6:31 PM in response to Eau Rougeby Lanny,The 10.6 disc is looking for a previous version of Mac OSX 10, either 10.5 (any version) or OSX 10.4.11
if the 10.6 installer does not find a earlier version of Mac OSX 10 as mentioned above, it will not install 10.6
so go back to your original 10.5 install disc(s) install that then install 10.6 again over that (don't erase), hopefully that will sort your problem.
None of this is true. You don't need to have anything installed on the disc prior to installation.
You do have to use a commercial release of SL, not a Grey set of DVDs from another Mac that shipped with SL.
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Aug 26, 2013 11:37 PM in response to ewtby Eau Rouge,Hi ewt
looks like I did give you erroneous advice regarding Snow Leopard looking for a previous OS, so sorry about that.
If you have the commercial release of SL it should install. If you can boot from the install disk and go to disk utility make sure the disk is partitioned to GUID partition scheme. And also the format is Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
This link may make things clearer.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1600
just out of interest are you able to install the older OS 10.5 ?