Q: Bootable usb drive not working

I'm using a 20 inch imac (early 2008) it has tiger on it.The specs are an intel core 2 duo @ 2.4GHz, 4gb of ram 160gb HDD. I put snow leopard 10.6.8 on the flash drive (it currently has tiger 10.4.11) and i made it with disk utility. The partition is guid, and it doesn't show up in startup disk. I tried a .dmg of snow leopard but it says i need leopard 10.5 and I don't have a copy. Also the fan is always running at a high rpm.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Jan 21, 2015 3:56 PM

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10114jose Jan 23, 2015 5:48 PM in response to 10114jose
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Jan 23, 2015 5:48 PM in response to 10114jose

Clean install of Snow Leopard fixed the Ethernet.
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10114jose Jan 23, 2015 9:27 PM in response to 10114jose
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Jan 23, 2015 9:27 PM in response to 10114jose

I got the fan to slow down by using this. I use the S.M.A.R.T setting so it controllers the fans by the HDD temperature. I also installed Yosemite on the IMac. I plan to install an sdd and two gbs of more ram.
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BDAqua Jan 24, 2015 10:47 AM in response to 10114jose
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Jan 24, 2015 10:47 AM in response to 10114jose

Good work, thanks for the report!
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