I put the $29 disc in my iMac running 10.4.11 and i merged/upgraded the settings. All my settings stayed the same on my computer and nothing as far as documents changed. I think I may have had reinstall/repair one or two apps but it all worked out fine
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Installing Snow Leopard onto Tiger
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I put the $29 disc in my iMac running 10.4.11 and i merged/upgraded the settings. All my settings stayed the same on my computer and nothing as far as documents changed. I think I may have had reinstall/repair one or two apps but it all worked out fine
If this is true, I am not sure how I was able to do it. I just popped in the DVD and followed the steps and when it asked me what type of install, I chose upgrade. I don't even have a leopard disk. I am sure it took longer this way since Tiger does not have stacks, time machine, etc. so they needed to be installed but it worked for me and it seems to have worked for other people this same way.
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While trying to update my friend's 3 year-old MacBook, from Tiger to Snow Leopard", I too encountered the "can't be installed" on this machine error.
I realised that I can't choose any of the options on the finder bar, especially Disk Utility (for a clean install), they're all greyed out.
Facing the two options, "Restore from time machine" and "Restart", I decided to just try the restore option, since a restart doesn't help.
Lo and behold, the finder bar options at the top lit up, and I was then able to choose Disk Utility! Weird!
Hope this helps! Mind you I was feeling rather adventurous and I didn't actually have a restore image. Just selecting the restore option "unlocks", if you will, the finder bar options.
Cheers!
While trying to update my friend's 3 year-old MacBook, from Tiger to Snow Leopard", I too encountered the "can't be installed" on this machine error.
I realised that I can't choose any of the options on the finder bar, especially Disk Utility (for a clean install), they're all greyed out.
Facing the two options, "Restore from time machine" and "Restart", I decided to just try the restore option, since a restart doesn't help.
Lo and behold, the finder bar options at the top lit up, and I was then able to choose Disk Utility! Weird!
Hope this helps! Mind you I was feeling rather adventurous and I didn't actually have a restore image. Just selecting the restore option "unlocks", if you will, the finder bar options.
Cheers!
Can you be a little bit more specific on what you did in Disk utility? Did you format the harddisk in Mac OS Journaled so that the SL install disc accepted the installation without errors?
Is there any way of doing this without erasing what is on the HDD?
I cant believe how many forums i have been to without finding a solution!
I just got my dad's old mac which has tiger on it. Is it still possible to install Snow Leopard on it? I read some guy said he put the disk in, then restarted the computer, and another guy put the disk in and followed the instructions from the disk. Can I just buy the $29 upgrade and install snow leopard? I'd rather not do a clean install
Trial and error
I have read through a lot of forums like these and nothing worked. Though everything sounded like it should work. I am not sure if it was my computer or software there was something wrong with but my way was.
When i clicked re-install on my disc image that i had on a USB the computer restarted. You can the choose language etc. Then i went into Disc utilities and reformated my actual harddrive in two partition. One that contained the Snow leopard Image (system disc) and another one that is clean. When this was done i restarted and it would finally read my "disc". unfortunately i now have two partitions of course. one that is 112 and one that is 8 GB.
Good luck
I have read through a lot of forums like these and nothing worked. Though everything sounded like it should work. I am not sure if it was my computer or software there was something wrong with but my way was.
When i clicked re-install on my disc image that i had on a USB the computer restarted. You can the choose language etc. Then i went into Disc utilities and reformated my actual harddrive in two partition. One that contained the Snow leopard Image (system disc) and another one that is clean. When this was done i restarted and it would finally read my "disc". unfortunately i now have two partitions of course. one that is 112 and one that is 8 GB.
Good luck