Suppose my iMac doenst have a DVD drive, and i have the SnowLeopard bootable dvd disk, what do i do then?
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In that case, you use an alternative, such as copying the DVD to a flash drive.
8GB is a good size for that. Boot to the installer from that flash drive.
How many other "conditions" will appear?
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Is it "What do I do if the USB ports don't work?"
There's lots of "what-ifs" in this life. Try not to use all of them at once
What do you mean by "copying the DVD to a flash drive".? I should just drag n drop the files to a to a flash disk? This way will i surely boot from the flash drive?In that case, you use an alternative, such as copying the DVD to a flash drive.
8GB is a good size for that. Boot to the installer from that flash drive.
How many other "conditions" will appear?
Let me guess your next question!
Is it "What do I do if the USB ports don't work?"
There's lots of "what-ifs" in this life. Try not to use all of them at once
No, that won't work.
Easiest way to do this is to use the Restore tab in your Disk Utility.
The DVD will be the Source volume, and the flash drive would be the Destination. Then, click the Restore button. Your Disk Utility will do the rest.
When the Restore process completes (probably more than 15 minutes), then that flash drive will be bootable.
Use a fresh flash drive. That will give you best results, and will be a good permanent copy for you to keep.
In that case, I'm pretty sure Snow Leopard will not run. The only diskless machine that came with Snow Leopard was one of the iterations of the MacBook Air. The first iMac without a DVD drive was the late 2012 drive which came with 10.8.
Good answer!
I was going with the idea that the iMac DVD just wasn't working - or has been removed (maybe adding another HDD/SSD), and also assuming that the iMac would be old enough to support Snow Leopard.