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renurb

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Aug 29, 2009
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So here is my story...

I have installed sl on my mac

I cant get it to install on my macbook, what i have done is tried both a clean install and an upgrade neither work. I cant boot from the disc, but its not the disc cause it worked on the mac, its not my optical drive cause i can boot from the leopard disc, i did it today.

So this is what i did with the help from the apple tech, i connected the imac and macbook with the firewire and did all the stuff to get into firewire mode. Well from there i was instructed by the apple tech to wipe my hard drive to do a clean install, i did n then he put me on hold and said that he will send me a new sl disc in the mail cause this isnt gonna work, well i wasnt happy with that so I..

Installed the sl on the macbook thru the imac via the fire wire. I worked and i had to set it up, still through the fire wire so i was technically using the imac. Well i then shut it all down n disconnected the fire wire n reboted the imac n back to the same old same (just the way it was supposed to be) i macbook though will not start up. It just gets stuck on the gray appl screen with the spinning gear.

What do i need to do,

Thank you for reading and hopefully someone can help me.
 
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