Can't upgrade from Tiger to SL on MB 2006

whitehorse84 said:

Are you just doing the upgrade?

I believe you have to go from leopard (10.5) to snow leopard (10.6), UNLESS you do a clean install of snow leopard.

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kellinette said:

I have the 2006 white 1.83 ghz intel core duo macbook. I have been trying unsuccessfully to install my new SL. First, I didn't have enough memory. So I bought that and installed 2 gb (that's max.) I have plenty of HD disk space available. I have hardly anything on this computer, basically just some pics and a few documents. So I insert the install disk and it starts installing, says 45 minute wait. At about 3 minutes down, it says install failed. And that's about it. Please help! Oh, also I do not have the tiger disks.

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kellinette said:

No, I have the white one. I bought it brand new.

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pigoo3 said:

Have you been having any other problems with this MacBook?

What was your original reason for upgrading from Tiger to SL in the first place?

- Nick

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whitehorse84 said:

ok. Here's what you want to do.

Backup all your data (pictures, music documents, etc.. whatever you feel is important) You should have all your application discs so you'll have to do some re-installing but that's the cost of doing a clean install.

insert the snow leopard disc (10.6) and turn your computer off. Turn it back on holding down the "C" key until you get the Grey screen with the apple logo and the small little status ball underneath.

Let it do it's thing until you get the "welcome to snow leopard" screen.

Choose your language, let it go form there until the top status bar pops up on top of the screen. Go to your utilities, then disk utility then click on the internal hard drive and erase it.

Once that's done, leave disk utility and then carry on through the snow leopard install. Once it's done, you should be GOOD TO GO.

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