A friend leaving town gifted me this old beast and I am keen to revive. Was locked to another account, had been in a warehouse for 5 years or so, earmarked for recycling from an old school batch at his uni.
It works fine. Am keen to take a peek around whatever OS works stable and comfortable, then decide whether to increase the RAM up to 6GB (2 + 4 i believe possible) and also maybe swap in a 128GB SSD.
Was hoping to simply use recovery and reinstall the OS – but every time I try and enter my icloud credentials 'incorrect password/username' yet it is not incorrect, as I am using the exact same credentials on my macbook air. Curiously, when I do try to log in via the reinstall routine, I get on my macbook appearing a message saying NEW LOGON attempt, with the map and a code to type in, yet that code is not asked for on the imac.
So it appears I need to try make a complete fresh install via USB?? 10.6.8 snow leopard it seems.
As my macbook air only has USB-c, I cannot create a bootable uSB on there without a new USB-c to USB cable.
Can I create the bootable USB with snow leopard via WIndows? Or only through my macbook air??
Can anyone point me to a reliable download?
I assume however I can get this DMG into a bootable USB, I then use startup options and hope using the USB install is not thwarted by this odd issue with signing in as part of set=up with my icloud details (no, there is no option in that segment of setup to create a new account, it just mentions if you do not have an icloud then to create a new account).
please help!
It works fine. Am keen to take a peek around whatever OS works stable and comfortable, then decide whether to increase the RAM up to 6GB (2 + 4 i believe possible) and also maybe swap in a 128GB SSD.
Was hoping to simply use recovery and reinstall the OS – but every time I try and enter my icloud credentials 'incorrect password/username' yet it is not incorrect, as I am using the exact same credentials on my macbook air. Curiously, when I do try to log in via the reinstall routine, I get on my macbook appearing a message saying NEW LOGON attempt, with the map and a code to type in, yet that code is not asked for on the imac.
So it appears I need to try make a complete fresh install via USB?? 10.6.8 snow leopard it seems.
As my macbook air only has USB-c, I cannot create a bootable uSB on there without a new USB-c to USB cable.
Can I create the bootable USB with snow leopard via WIndows? Or only through my macbook air??
Can anyone point me to a reliable download?
I assume however I can get this DMG into a bootable USB, I then use startup options and hope using the USB install is not thwarted by this odd issue with signing in as part of set=up with my icloud details (no, there is no option in that segment of setup to create a new account, it just mentions if you do not have an icloud then to create a new account).
please help!
