Installation Help

[Aliascognito]

Hi, i've been trying to install Mac OS X Snow Leopard recently from a flash drive into my mac (Currently running leopard).
I have all the necessary specs to install, yet when i try to install the installer opens and closes quickly...

I have tried to run it manually through terminal to no avail. Yet when I opened the package contents and clicked "Install OS X" terminal opens, and displays this code and closes again as usual.

~ WS9$ /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Install\ DVD/Install\ Mac\ OS\ X.app/Contents/MacOS/Install\ Mac\ OS\ X ; exit;

Has anyone any idea on how to fix it?

(I've tried boot from the USB already and do not have any discs for burning onto)

 

[robbieduncan]

Why are you not using a (real, bought from Apple) DVD? Where did you get this copy of Snow Leopard from?

 

[Aliascognito]

I bought it from a local trade in shop a while back and backed it onto my USB...
Is there anyway around this? Or just bring the disc back?

EDIT: By a way around this.. i mean like something i can download to fix it or something?

 

[robbieduncan]

I bought it from a local trade in shop a while back and backed it onto my USB...
Is there anyway around this? Or just bring the disc back?

EDIT: By a way around this.. i mean like something i can download to fix it or something?

Why aren't you using the disc that you bought? What does the disk look like: some are locked to only work on a very specific type of Mac.

 

[Mal]

If you can't boot from the flash drive, you did it wrong, or the disk was not valid. You cannot install Snow Leopard without booting from the install media. You'll have to use the DVD you got, assuming it's a valid, operational disk that will work on your machine.

jW

 

[Aliascognito]

Its a normal disc with the big Mac "X" on it in black... and i cant use that because my optical drive doesn't work

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If you can't boot from the flash drive, you did it wrong, or the disk was not valid. You cannot install Snow Leopard without booting from the install media. You'll have to use the DVD you got, assuming it's a valid, operational disk that will work on your machine.

jW

When i boot from the USB, i get an error saying:

Unable to find driver for this platform: \"ACPI\"

 

[robbieduncan]

When i boot from the USB, i get an error saying:

What, exact, Mac are you trying to install it on?

 

[Quad5Ny]

Retail Snow Leopard should look like this:

If you have a Grey disc, then that will only work with the Mac it came with.

 

[Aliascognito]

What, exact, Mac are you trying to install it on?

Early 2006 20" 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 1.5GB RAM

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Retail Snow Leopard should look like this:

Image

If you have a Grey disc, then that will only work with the Mac it came with.

Looking at that picture, i realise it must have been a faulty disc -.-

 

[robbieduncan]

Looking at that picture, i realise it must have been a faulty disc -.-

Or, perhaps, an illegally copied pirated disc?

 

[Mal]

Looking at that picture, i realise it must have been a faulty disc -.-

If you mean that your disk doesn't look like that, that's not a sign of a faulty disk. It means you don't have the right kind (either it's for a specific Mac model, not yours, which the error you're getting would indicate) or it's a pirated copy. Best bet in either of those cases is to go buy a new disk from an Apple Store.

If it looks like that but still didn't work right, then you may have a faulty disk.

jW