installing mac osx

[the-face]

hi!
someone help please.
i bought this macbook pro from a friend, and he fomatted the hard drive completely before giving it to me..there is absolutly nothing on the drive,
now I cannot install mac osx.. when i boot off the install disk 1 (of 2) after language selection it just displays cannot install mac osx on this computer... i tried everything that i know, to no avail.. please help.

 

[old-wiz]

We need more info - what macbook pro? What version of OSx are you trying to install? Leopard requires I think 867 mhz cpu to install, for example. Might have formatted the HD wrong; you might need disk utility to prep the dest drive.

 

[PlaceofDis]

boot off of the disc... open disk utility from the Utilities drop down of the menubar and make sure the drive is formated properly to HFS+

thats the first thing i can think of.

 

[the-face]

We need more info - what macbook pro? What version of OSx are you trying to install? Leopard requires I think 867 mhz cpu to install, for example. Might have formatted the HD wrong; you might need disk utility to prep the dest drive.

Its a macbook pro 15' silver of course.. the install disks are from a friend who bought his last summer.. quite new .. it says version 1.0 on the cd..

 

[Tallest Skil]

Its a macbook pro 15' silver of course.. the install disks are from a friend who bought his last summer.. quite new .. it says version 1.0 on the cd..

You can't use machine-specific disks with other machines. That's your problem.

 

[the-face]

boot off of the disc... open disk utility from the Utilities drop down of the menubar and make sure the drive is formated properly to HFS+

thats the first thing i can think of.

I thought about that, but dont know any differnt.. it was formatted as a mac journaled extended i think...

 

[old-wiz]

You can't use machine-specific disks with other machines. That's your problem.

Exactly; you need to buy a retail version of OSx like Leopard. It is also possible to get the original install disks from Apple for a small fee ($30?) but that takes you back to the original OS, whatever version it was.