[X4U] 10.5 instead of 10.6

[Paul Moortgat]

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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