I tried 2 methods, first was only inserting the SL disk and start the upgrade process ( didn't worked) then I restarted the computer with the disk inside and hit the "C" letter when the computer was rebooting, that started like a boot disk, I thought I made it, but after 20min or so, it stoped and gave me another error message, so the only method left is to perform a clean install hiting the "Alt" button when restarting with the SL disk inserted, before I go that far I still have one last option that is calling the Apple Support 800 number by phone, they give 90 days free phone support to anyone that buy's an upgrade of the OSX, so I want to hear what do they have to say about it, they already told me that is a known issue, but I need to be on my computer in order to perform some tests ( now Im at work so I will have to wait...)
Pressing down the "C" key is to boot from an optical medium (CD or DVD) that is inside the optical disc drive (ODD), it has nothing to do with what installation method you decide to use.
Pressing down the "OPTION/ALT" key during boot up shows you all connected bootable media, be it the internal HDD (Macintosh HD), the ODD or any external device you can boot from (external HDD, external ODD or USB flash memory thumb drive), it also has nothing to do with whatever installation procedure you decide upon.
Starting the installer of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard from inside Mac OS X also has almost nothing to do with the procedure you use, unless you circumvent the UTILITIES button to start Disk Utility.
Anyway, to do a clean install of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, you have to start Disk Utility while booted from the installation DVD and erase the Macintosh HD partition.
The proper steps are explained here:
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its ur ram
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buy a stick of 2 gb ram from ebay for around 20 dollars. put that in. install snow leopard than once it is installed. you can put all your ram back in.
Disk is white with the snow leopard picture
Bought it on Apple Store in Aventura Florida
Mine is an iMac Intel ( 3 years old) with 4Gigas on RAM, don't recall right now the processor speed, HDD must be around 200gigs
Does that mean, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard can only be installed on Macs with 2GB RAM?
I installed Snow Leopard on a 2007 iMac with 4GB RAM, on a 2008 MacBook with 4GB RAM and on a 2009 MacBook Pro with 4GB RAM. The installation procedure went without problems.
I used the DVD and a clone of the DVD onto an external FW800 HDD for that.
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