SL clean install with CPU drop-in DVD

[macNerd1]

Go slow on me guys. Got a new iMac on 28th Aug and next day had to go on vacation. So kind of blank here.

I have Leopard installed on my iMac when I bought it with SL cpu drop-in dvd in the box.

Did anyone do a clean install using CPU drop-in dvd and how?

Appreciate any insight.

 

[kryptonianjorel]

Go slow on me guys. Got a new iMac on 28th Aug and next day had to go on vacation. So kind of blank here.

I have Leopard installed on my iMac when I bought it with SL cpu drop-in dvd in the box.

Did anyone do a clean install using CPU drop-in dvd and how?

Appreciate any insight.

CPU?

 

[nufanec]

Yep, works fine. Put in the Snow Leopard install DVD and restart holding down the C key. It'll boot up to the installer. Go to the Utilities menu and choose disk utility. Select the Macintosh HD volume and erase using the Erase tab. Quit Disk Utility and continue through the installer.

After installation it will reboot and you can set up a user account. Once that has been done, you can use the Applications DVD to install the bundled software that came on your iMac.

 

[Vster]

Didn't know you could do that until yesterday. I reinstalled 10.5 clean and then installed 10.6. I did the boot from "c" this morning on my wife's MacBook Pro this morning and it worked great!

 

[macNerd1]

Yep, works fine. Put in the Snow Leopard install DVD and restart holding down the C key. It'll boot up to the installer. Go to the Utilities menu and choose disk utility. Select the Macintosh HD volume and erase using the Erase tab. Quit Disk Utility and continue through the installer.

After installation it will reboot and you can set up a user account. Once that has been done, you can use the Applications DVD to install the bundled software that came on your iMac.

Thanks. Will do it today.

 

[macNerd1]

Thanks nufanec

Worked like a charm

 

[Raginglynx]

Thanks nufanec

Worked like a charm

Strange.. I have the SL cpu drop-in dvd and I've tried to do an installation on a blank harddrive without success.

When boot up it says it can't be installed since I don't have Leopard on it, so I continue to the restore alternative. There I'm able to start Disk utility. So I erase the disk. But when quitting Disk utility I'm back to the restoration window again. I don't get the alternative to choose disk to install to OR to continue installation without Restoration.

Does anybody know why it behaves this way for me and not for others?

 

[davidlv]

Go slow on me guys. Got a new iMac on 28th Aug and next day had to go on vacation. So kind of blank here.

I have Leopard installed on my iMac when I bought it with SL cpu drop-in dvd in the box.

Did anyone do a clean install using CPU drop-in dvd and how?

Appreciate any insight.

Not an insight, but you really should refine your English a little, "SL cpu drop-in dvd" means nothing to me, just guessing, I assume you mean "SL drop-in OS DVD Installation disk?"
CPU means Central Processing Unit and that would be great great if we could just drop a new one in whenever we felt like it.

 

[joe3681]

Not an insight, but you really should refine your English a little, "SL cpu drop-in dvd" means nothing to me, just guessing, I assume you mean "SL drop-in OS DVD Installation disk?"
CPU means Central Processing Unit and that would be great great if we could just drop a new one in whenever we felt like it.

Not an insight but his english is fine. I'm looking at a "CPU Drop-In DVD" right now.

Such bad english.

 

[davidlv]

Unbelievable! Who wrote that, and who is the supervisor that let it go?

Goes down the street, muttering "drop in cpu indeed...... What's the world coming to?...."
And I thought Japlish had some classic English mistakes... that is directly from Apple? Not a Photoshop joke?.... more muttering ..... fades o u t

 

[joe3681]

Unbelievable! Who wrote that, and who is the supervisor that let it go?

Goes down the street, muttering "drop in cpu indeed...... What's the world coming to?...."
And I thought Japlish had some classic English mistakes... that is directly from Apple? Not a Photoshop joke?.... more muttering ..... fades o u t

No photochoppin, no jokes. Need more pics? Thats right, get to walkin!

 

[plasticphyte]

For anyone else in the future wondering if the phrase 'CPU Drop in DVD' is correct, yes it is. I have a 15" Late 2008 Unibody MBP that originally shipped with Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5.6). This unit was purchased from the refurb store and shipped with a DVD labelled as 'CPU Drop in DVD'.

Thanks for confirming too that it's possible to do a clean install from it. Much easier this way than having to install 10.5 then upgrade.