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Jul 28, 2015 3:06 PM in response to RonEWby Roger Wilmut1,★HelpfulYou can't install an older system over a newer one. You would have to back up all your data, then completely erase the disk and then do an install from scratch, restoring your data from the backup.
If your HD is big enough, and not too full, you could partition it and then install SL on the new partition. You could then boot into that; however space is going to be the problem. You could buy an external hard disk - 2TB disks are not that expensive not - and install SL on that. However I don't know whether you can also install Boot Camp on that, though I should have thought so while it is the startup disk. The main problem is that running the system on an external disk is going to be very considerably slower than using the internal one.
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Jul 28, 2015 3:09 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1by stevejobsfan0123,Roger Wilmut1 wrote:
If your HD is big enough, and not too full, you could partition it and then install SL on the new partition.
Last I checked, you cannot have multiple OS X partitions if you also have a Windows partition via Boot Camp.
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Jul 28, 2015 3:26 PM in response to RonEWby lllaass,The 2012 Mini can't run anything earlier than Mountain Lion sinceearlier versi0ns do not have the necessary drivers.
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Jul 28, 2015 3:31 PM in response to lllaassby Roger Wilmut1,Ah - he did say he'd upgraded. It sounds as if he upgraded to a new Mac as well as a new system. In that case he's stuck.
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Jul 29, 2015 2:50 AM in response to RonEWby woodmeister50,You must be mistaken as to the Mini model. The last Mac Mini to ship with
any version of Snow Leopard was the 2010 model (see chart Mac mini).
If you have upgraded your computer as Roger suspects, then you are
stuck.