[X4U] 10.5 instead of 10.6

[Jeff Carruthers]

Paul: I'm not sue why the second internal drive isn't showing up as  
GUID partitioned in System Profiler. I just checked and mine all do,  
so it may be that the drive didn't get partitioned as GUID after all.

I use Disk Utility, select the drive to repartition, select Partition,  
change from current partition to 1 Partition, and then go to the  
Options... button
  and select GUID. and finally, Apply.

Jeff

On Feb 9, 2010, at 5:37 PM, Paul Moortgat wrote:

> I will try the 10.5 that came with my Mac Pro.  Now the 10.6 drive  
> is removed, there's no drive with a system anymore.  It's somebody  
> else his Mac.
> On my Mac when I format a second internal drive in Guid and I look  
> at the System Profiler, it's no GUID.  How can that be?
>
>
> Paul Moortgat
>
> On 09 Feb 2010, at 18:45, Jeff Carruthers wrote:
>
>>
>> On Feb 9, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Paul Moortgat wrote:
>>
>>> On a new Mac Pro one need 10.5 instead of 10.6.  I called Apple  
>>> because 10.5 would not install.  They told me that was because  
>>> 10.6 was already installed.
>>> I argued that I started with a DVD.  The mac will see the 10.5 and  
>>> will not proceed was the answer.  I removed the drive with 10.6  
>>> and it still didn't worked.
>>> Can that 10.5 DVD be damaged while I can use it on a Powerbook?   
>>> The 10.5 is a retail version I bought for 160 euro from Apple.
>>> One need Appletalk for printers and it's not on 10.6.
>>>
>>> Paul Moortgat
>>>
>>
>>
>> Paul: I believe Apple's OS disks will often only work for the  
>> machines that were current at the time the CD or DVD was issued.
>>
>> You might try making a clone of the Powerbook internal hard drive  
>> to a firewire external drive and then see if this will boot the  
>> MacPro. Be sure to use a GUID partition on the drive you will be  
>> using to make the clone, otherwise it won't boot on a MacIntel  
>> system.
>>
>> I assume that the Powerbook is a MacIntel; if it's a PowerPC  
>> machine, then the idea won't work.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Jeff
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