Help installing Snow Leopard 10.6.3 on new SSD

[ruhollah glare]

Hi, here's the present situation.

SSD INSTALL
- switched original HDD with new SSD in 2012 MBP
- booted with CCC clone from external hard drive, to format SSD to HFS (journaled)
- after format, SSD is recognized in CCC and Finder


INSTALL PROCESS
- during restart brand new Snow Leopard 10.6.3 disc will not boot after several tries
- got frustrated and started CCC cloning process, after which if successful, I'll do a clean install.
- looks like CCC will take a long, long time (USB 2.0 external hdd)


So, why did my Snow Leopard disc not boot, and what can I do to get it to work? It gets stuck on the white screen with the grey apple, with no progress bar.

Tia

 

[Intell]

That machine is too new for Snow Leopard. Use Internet Recovery to reinstall Mac OS X 10.8 or higher.

 

[ruhollah glare]

That machine is too new for Snow Leopard. Use Internet Recovery to reinstall Mac OS X 10.8 or higher.

Is that the simplest approach? I'm seriously not too bright. Was told to install 10.6.3 so I can upgrade to 10.10.2.

 

[chrfr]

Is that the simplest approach? I'm seriously not too bright. Was told to install 10.6.3 so I can upgrade to 10.10.2.

That's the only approach, unless you have a USB installer for 10.7.5 or newer.

 

[ruhollah glare]

That's the only approach, unless you have a USB installer for 10.7.5 or newer.

Thanks for your help so far. I seemed to recall I needed a more current Snow Leopard than 10.6.3 in order to upgrade, so was surprised when two sources pointed me to the 10.6.3 disc.

So looks like the CCC clone installed--looks like my system is intact and is working now.

Im assuming your direction to use Internet Recovery, is if I wanted to, at this point, do a clean install?

Obviously I need better preparation before I go through this exercise again.

 

[Dave Braine]

That's the only approach,

Not if the Mac will not take 10.6, as this one won't as MBPs came with 10.7 from Oct 2011.

 

[chrfr]

Not if the Mac will not take 10.6, as this one won't as MBPs came with 10.7 from Oct 2011.

You misunderstood what I wrote, which admittedly could be clearer. The OP was asking if he needed to use internet recovery, which is what I was replying to.

 

[Dave Braine]

Thanks. That's clearer.