![]() ![]() Once you have Snow Leopard installed, you should install all the available Snow Leopard updates. If you chose to burn a DVD, then you will need a DL DVD, since the contents of the ISO is over 4.7 GB. Instructions are given below for creating a Snow Leopard USB flash drive installer. Apple still sells Snow Leopard DVDs, but you can also download an ISO from the internet. You can decline to give an Apple ID if you wish. You would not need a Apple ID to install Snow Leopard, but the installer will still ask. You can read the requirements from the Apple Lion website given in the above link. You probably can not use the DMG file to create a bootable installer. ![]() In other words, the DMG file only offers an upgrade to Lion. If you were to purchase Lion from Apple, then a requirement to install would be to have Snow Leopard already installed. However, you may be able to run 64 bit BIOS booting operating systems such as Windows and some versions of Linux. Note: Since this model has a 32 bit EFI, you can only run 32 bit EFI booting operation systems. The OS X 10.7.5 (Lion) was the last version designed for your Mac model. Mac OS X v10.6.2 Update is dated Nov 9, 2009, I doubt the disc you have is the correct one for this model Mac. (I made the assumption 2.66QX means 2.66 GHz Quad Core Xeon) This model originally was designed to run OS X 10.4.7. Link to new related question: I am trying to clone a 2TB drive that has mac os x 10.6.8 onto a smaller drive but dont know what I am doingĪccording to, your Mac is a 2006 model which was discontinued January 8, 2008. I have never done this and I know its harder than I am making it seem, can anyone give me any tips or advice on how to do this correctly? I read somewhere that I might have to change the blocksize, true? I am planning on using Clonezilla. Problem is that the bootable drive is 2TB and I only have 250 GB drive as a target drive, so I plan to shrink the partition on the bootable drive and then clone it to the smaller drive that would have the same partition structure. So before I try and get my hands on Snow Leopard, I am going to attempt to clone the bootable drive and hope that the clone will boot without any issues. I was lucky to find another drive from another MAC PRO that has the operating system on it and I plugged it into the computer in question and it booted just fine. I am not sure if I will go as I dont want to explain everything and spend time just so that the genius bar can conclude the same thing or worse tell me that this model is no longer supported (which is the most annoying statement) its like taking a 2009 Prius in for service and Toyota saying oh man sorry bro that model has been discontinued we only meant for you to buy our super expensive computer to use for 100k miles then we expect you to trash it and buy another one. He ultimately set me up with an appointment to an Authorized Service Center. ![]() We tried every possible keyboard combination while booting, booting while connected to a network via ethernet, resetting the svram, nothing worked. Also I gave him the serial number and despite this he could not tell me what specific disk I would need to boot, instead he focused on getting the machine to boot with the disc I had on hand. He told me that the disc I have isn't model specific and that any disc should work, he didnt seem to worried about weather it was the correct one. The customer service rep was a nice guy I felt that he wanted to help but was ultimately not well versed with apple products from this time period. Since I posted this question I have been on the phone with Apple Support as Bmike had suggested for an unbelievable amount of time. I was thinking the along the same lines as in I probably dont have the right disk. Second regardless of what I choose to do I would need to start with Snow Leopard first and then work my way up. From what I am understanding from the responses collectively is that determining which install disk came with my machine is going to be not as straightforward as I thought. UPDATE: Thank you to everyone who took the time to answer. How can I determine if this is the right disc and/or which is the latest retail disk I can use on this machine? I think I may be using the wrong installation disk since I can't confirm this disk belongs to this machine. While in Linux I formatted the hard drive I want to install the OS onto as HFS+ and had no problems. It is not the optical drive as I was able to boot into Linux using a live CD. I am not that savvy with Macintosh computers so I can't figure out why the install disk keeps ejecting when I attempt to boot from disk by holding down the "C" button or the option button. ![]()
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