Bought new imac today, came with a Leopard update disc?

Just picked up a new imac from a local Best Buy store and it had the Leopard upgrade disc in it instead. I turned the imac on and went through the Tiger install until the desktop showed up. I slipped the Leopard upgrade dvd right away and rebooted. The disk went through the long verifying process before install happened but I walked away when it was around 92%. When I got back a few minutes later, the imac was off.
I had to turn it on again and it booted off the Leopard dvd that was still in it. This time I skipped the dvd disc verify and went straight to the install. It started at 1 hour & 20 minutes left, but now it's at 48 minutes.
I was just wondering if I'm going to have any problems because I skipped that verify process the second time. Did anyone else have issues upgrading their new imac with their upgrade disc? Maybe I'm paranoid but I thought it was odd that the imac shut down in the middle of the verify process.

I agree it should not have shut down in the middle of the upgrade. Some people have experienced problems with doing the standard Leopard upgrade. I would recommend doing an Archive install of the system. The disk verification at the beginning of the install process is just to verify that it can read all the contents of the disk before it starts installing. If the disk is scratched badly the install process could fail half way through but since this is a new disk it should fine but you never know. Personally once I verify a disk and know it's good I usually skip the verification there after unless I have reason to believe the disk may have gotten damaged.
George

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You are not talking to Apple. Apple does not read or respond to any posts here. We are just users like yourself. Here is where you should direct your comments: http://www.apple.com/feedback/

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No, that SL disk is meant for the computer it came with only.
Upgrading to SL generally will not cause data loss, but you should have a backup of your important files in any case.
You can get a Snow Leopard disk by calling Apple - in the USA it's 800-MY-APPLE.
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m1doc,
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do not confuse moving your whole folder and library with moving just media files as in
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Macworld - How to transfer iTunes libraries between PC and Mac - http://www.macworld.com/article/46248/2005/08/shiftitunes.html

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I bought my iMac in 2009 with Leopard software, I want to upgrade to OS x Lion, do I have to purchase and install OS x Snow Leopard first?
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Just bought a new iMac 27'' i7. Ran software update and a bunch of stuff showed up in the list:
Currently i'm on 10.6.2
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iTunes
Airport Base Station update
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Safari
Airport Client
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I have not installed Logic or anything else, iMac is brand new and only been running for a few minutes now.
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EFI FW Update 1.0
SMC Update 1.0
Plus there are Snow Leopard security updates available too.....
How should i proceed before i install Logic Pro 9 ??
PLease advise.
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Faisal

Well, I don't intend to be using it "less" strictly in the sense of time spent - I'll probably still keep it in my lap all the time surfing the web in front of the TV... but yeah, no intensive graphics or music use, just web surfing and the occasional spreadsheet or word document. So long as I won't have networking and file sharing issues then it probably doesn't make sense to upgrade.

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