Hi all,
Bit of a newbe question here I suspect.
Just picked up an 11 inch air 2nd hand.
It's a couple of years old, and comes with leopard, 2 gigs of ram, and a 128 SSD.
Lovely little machine.
I'm trying to install snowleopard.
I have a bootable disk image of snow leopard on an external usb hard drive.
I've been able to use this before to do fresh installs/ upgrades on other computers.
Things aren't going so smoothly this time however.
Holding down "c" during boot won't bring me to disk utility, so I've tried to install snow leopard from within leopard, by clicking on the CD image and following instructions.
The install seems to start fine, then after about 20%, the laptop restarts, and I get the message:
" You need to restart your computer etc etc "
I've been able to run snow leopard on this machine from an external Carbon Copy drive, so I know it's happy enough to run snow leopard.
I've been able to use this particular copy of snow leopard before on other machines.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
I reset the pram to see if it was that.
The machine runs great in leopard, but there are some apps that I would like to download from the app store, that's the only reason I'd like snowleopard.
Thanks for reading,
Jesse
Bit of a newbe question here I suspect.
Just picked up an 11 inch air 2nd hand.
It's a couple of years old, and comes with leopard, 2 gigs of ram, and a 128 SSD.
Lovely little machine.
I'm trying to install snowleopard.
I have a bootable disk image of snow leopard on an external usb hard drive.
I've been able to use this before to do fresh installs/ upgrades on other computers.
Things aren't going so smoothly this time however.
Holding down "c" during boot won't bring me to disk utility, so I've tried to install snow leopard from within leopard, by clicking on the CD image and following instructions.
The install seems to start fine, then after about 20%, the laptop restarts, and I get the message:
" You need to restart your computer etc etc "
I've been able to run snow leopard on this machine from an external Carbon Copy drive, so I know it's happy enough to run snow leopard.
I've been able to use this particular copy of snow leopard before on other machines.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
I reset the pram to see if it was that.
The machine runs great in leopard, but there are some apps that I would like to download from the app store, that's the only reason I'd like snowleopard.
Thanks for reading,
Jesse
