How can I install Mac OS X Snow Leopard on Mac OS X Tiger?

Just an FYI, the Mac App Store was introduced with Mac OS X 10.6.6. However the rest of what you say is accurate.

10.6.8 is required if you want to upgrade certain Macs beyond 10.7.5 without having to reformat the drive you are installing the operating system on and without having to install some version of 10.7 first.

One can actually install 10.7 or later if you maintain an original copy of the full installer of the operating system in question for your personal use without having to have the prerequisite operating system installed, if the hardware supported it. But that's a discussion for another forum.

For HFTaylor,

Consider buying a used or refurbished Mac with an Intel CPU depending on your needs. Read this tip about the migration of data from PowerPC to Intel before proceeding:

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2295

and see this tip about used and refurbished Macs*:

http://www.macmaps.com/usedrefurbished.html

* Links to my pages may give me compensation.

HFTaylor12 wrote:

Snow Leopard has the Mac App Store and Tiger doesn't. That means I can never update the OS.

You can never run Snow Leopard on a PowerPC Mac, and hence it will never run the App store. Upgrades from Tiger are only available to Leopard through purchase of a DVD from a third party source, since Apple no longer sells Leopard (maybe you can call 800-SOS-APPL and explain your situation and model number Mac and maybe they will provide a "replacement disc" for Leopard. Software Update would then update your PowerPC Mac to 10.5.8 which is as high as it can go.

If you need access to the App Store, you need an Intel Mac so that it can run Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or later depending upon the model of the Mac.

a brody wrote:

Just an FYI, the Mac App Store was introduced with Mac OS X 10.6.6. However the rest of what you say is accurate...

* Links to my pages may give me compensation.

Actually everything I said was accurate, thank you. While your point would be interesting as a footnote in an encyclopedia article about Snow Leopard, it is only irrelevant and potentially confusing to the OP.

There are only two versions of Snow Leopard available for purchase on DVD: 10.6 and 10.6.3. Either one, once installed, will ONLY be upgraded to 10.6.8 by Software Update.

Hence the only way the OP can get access to the App Store via Snow Leopard on an Intel Mac, is to install it and use Software Update to upgrade it 10.6.8 or use a later version of OS X, as I noted.

You can't upgrade it; you need to buy a new, refurbished, or secondhand Intel Mac to run Snow Leopard or newer.

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Your iBook will max out with Leopard, 10.5.8

What functionality are you attempting to gain in Snow Leopard that Tiger or Leopard does not offer you?

You need to buy a Mac OS X 10.5 DVD from a source such as Amazon or eBay to upgrade the OS; even if you could get the Mac App Store on your computer, that item isn’t available in it.

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