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Reinstalling Snow Leopard on an old iMac
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<blockquote data-quote="Head_Unit" data-source="post: 1836726" data-attributes="member: 135495"><p>Hey all, my mom has an old 2006 iMac</p><p>2GHz Intel Core Duo</p><p>2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM</p><p>Serial QP6280NVU2S</p><p>A neighbor or friend or someone wants to set it up as a kind of crude music server (just playing iTunes into speakers) so my mom wants to give it but wants it wiped first. Fine easy peasy</p><p>BUT</p><p>If I reformat the drive it won't work any more, it will need a fresh OS install. This can only accept OX X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and while I could find a couple bootleg installer images, they did not work. And I cannot find it to download in the App Store (only updaters). </p><p></p><p>???</p><p></p><p>Another approach would be to just trash and secure delete all the stuff not related to the OS, however I'm not too confident of not leaving some of her personal stuff behind and/or logged in, or mistakenly erasing OS files.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Head_Unit, post: 1836726, member: 135495"] Hey all, my mom has an old 2006 iMac 2GHz Intel Core Duo 2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM Serial QP6280NVU2S A neighbor or friend or someone wants to set it up as a kind of crude music server (just playing iTunes into speakers) so my mom wants to give it but wants it wiped first. Fine easy peasy BUT If I reformat the drive it won't work any more, it will need a fresh OS install. This can only accept OX X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and while I could find a couple bootleg installer images, they did not work. And I cannot find it to download in the App Store (only updaters). ??? Another approach would be to just trash and secure delete all the stuff not related to the OS, however I'm not too confident of not leaving some of her personal stuff behind and/or logged in, or mistakenly erasing OS files. [/QUOTE]
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