Family Pack Snow Leopard

I have a question about Snow Leopard. I have two Macbooks in my home and bought the Family Pack snow leopard. Now, I have installed it on a newer Macbook However on my really old Macbook it says it is unable to install because it in not "intel based mac". Now, my question is... is there anyway to install it on the old macbook??

You should be able to install it on your old MacBook, all macbook's were Intel, only iBook's come with PowerPC (they only support leopard, not snow leopard.) Snow leopard may have a problem, if it was the first kind of macbook, with the 1-core processor, they put 2-core processors in about a year after the macbook came out. Having said that, though, my friends Macbook with 1 core just had snow leopard installed on it no problem.

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Snow Leopard simply won't install on Mac Mini

After failing to upgrade over Leopard 10.5 on my Mac Mini (it has 2Gb Ram), I did a reinstall of the original software, erasing the disk and starting fresh. It's now at 10.4.5 with all of the most recent updates installed, and 59.9 Gb memory free on the hard drive, no partitions or peripherals other than the mouse and keyboard; processor 1.66.
The Snow Leopard disk is brand new out of the box. At each attempt at reaches to about '39 minutes left' and then the 'Installation Failed -- could not copy support files' or something like that. The same thing happened when I tried a friend's Family Pack Snow Leopard disk, so it's unlikely that it is the disk itself. And since the reinstall of the original software went fine, the problem doesn't seem to be the optical drive. After about 5 tries, I never get beyond this specific point, and have to start over.
I ran the 'verify disk' utility and it reported that everything seems to be OK with the hard disk.
Any clues as to how to get this to work? I wish I could simply install the 10.5 Leopard, but that disk has gone missing.

That would indeed be the most logical reason for failure, and close inspection of the disk shows some blemishes that were not there at the start of the process. But another attempt to install from another disk -- a 'Family Pack' disk -- produced exactly the same failure at exactly the same point in the process. A firewire option will have to wait for another day, since this one is pretty much shot at this point.
Thanks

Prep. Questions for Upgrading Tiger- Snow Leopard for Iphone 4.

Hi,
Like everyone else, I failed to realized iphone 4 was not tiger compatible. Regardless of my carelessness, and my ill-feelings towards Apple for this strange move, I have a few questions that I keep getting mixed answers to and would like to finally clear some of them up. I sincerely hope someone can help me, I've been using my phone for about 2 weeks now with no contacts/apps/previous data, and the longer I wait, the more it's grating on my feelings.
Background:
I have many applications on my computer, like the adobe suite, games, ect. that I am worried about making the transfer. So far, no one seems to be able to tell me what is going to happen to them when/if I upgrade. I do not have the keys for the adobe suite anymore..... could this seriously screw me?
2) I've purchased the simple, $50 family pack snow leopard install discs. Again, I'm planning on jumping from 10.4.11 to whatever comes pre-installed on those discs. My computers specs meet the requirements for snow leopard, so, Is there any problem with this? Sources online say I'm AOK, and only after I bought it from apple and bring it home do they tell me (as I called to ask about backing up my hd) that I can't use this, that I need the box set with Iwork and Ilife.
My frustration rises
I just really need someone to help clear this up for me before I accidently fatally lose everything on my computer because I was given false information.
3) Incase I do totally bomb this, I'm attempting to make a copy of my harddrive to my external through Disc Utilities.
Say I do upgrade successfully to Snow Leopard, but the Adobe Software is lost, would I be able to restore my computer back to this current Tiger state from my external?
4)Is it just not possible to run Snow Leopard with my current versions of Imovie, Iphoto, ect?
I'm trying to keep cool, but seriously, if I have to go back and buy the box set just to upgrade my Iwork(which i don't use) and Ilife set, and then on top of that, repurchase the Adobe suite because it won't make the switch, I'm going to not only be furious, but lose a lot of respect for Apple.
Thanks for any help you can give me. Seriously.

Sources online say I'm AOK, and only after I bought it from apple and bring it home do they tell me (as I called to ask about backing up my hd) that I can't use this, that I need the box set with Iwork and Ilife.
The Box Set is "recommended", not essential, what you have will work.
Say I do upgrade successfully to Snow Leopard, but the Adobe Software is lost, would I be able to restore my computer back to this current Tiger state from my external?
First off, the only way to be 100% safe is to have a bootable Clone of what you have now.
Get carbon copy cloner to make an exact copy of your old HD to the New one...
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
SuperDuper...
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/
Or the most expensive one & my favorite, Tri-Backup...
http://www.tri-edre.com/english/tribackup.html
Boot from the clone and make certain everything is OK before install SL on the internal, then you could in a worst case scenario clone it back to the internal, or have 2 different OSes to choose from.
Is it just not possible to run Snow Leopard with my current versions of Imovie, Iphoto, ect?
I use iMovie 6 HD in SL/10.6, but be sure if installing iMovie that your current version isn't named iMovie so it doesn't get erased.
and then on top of that, repurchase the Adobe suite because it won't make the switch
You don't mention which versions of Adobe Apps you have.
Which apps work with Mac OS X 10.6?...
http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/

Can load Snow Leopard on newest MBP?

If I buy the current model 17" MacBookPro (called early 2011), can I do a clean install of Snow Leopard instead of using Lion?
I have a Family Pack of Leopard, and the upgrade disks to Snow Leopard; would that work?
When this model came out earlier this year,(before Lion), did the install disks that came with it work that way, or was there a DIRECT install of Snow Leopard available?

Does you machine meet the system requirements?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4949
Is this a retail Snow Leopard disc from Apple, (the one with the white cat on it, not a grey one from someone else, if it is a grey one it will not work as most of those were designed to be machine specific.
This what the retail disk looks like and you can get it here: http://store.apple.com/us/search/snow-leopard-10.6.8#!!
If it does take your original install disc 1 power up the mac and push in the disc holding the OPTION key. This will bring up the start up manager and allow you which disc to start from, select the install disc. After if finishes booting, select your language, click continue. On the next page in the menu bar select utilities/disk utility. select)highlight) your volume (default name Macintosh HD, unless you named it something else) from the left column, under the First Aid tab click verify disk, if it comes back with errors (they will be in red font) then run Repair Disk, you may have to do this more than once (untill it comes up with this disk seems ok in green font)
Quit out and eject the disc.
Then power off and power back on holding the C key, select your language and follow the prompts

Snow Leopard Update Disc

I recently bought a Mac OS X Snow Leopard disc for my Macbook Pro. It is an 07 and already has Snow Leopard, but my friend has Leopard and wants to use my disc to update his Macbook Pro. Both Macs are almost identical, aside from details like mine's an Intel Core 2 Duo and his is an Intel Core Duo. I was wondering if I could update his computer, and still be able to use the disc. Does the disc have a limit on it, or is it unlimited? (Just saying, but for PCs, they are unlimited) The only thing I have done with the disc is use it to put Windows XP on my Mac using BootCamp. Other than that, it hasn't been touched with.

Here's some relevant language from the Software License Agreement.
APPLE INC. SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR MAC OS X Single Use, Family Pack and Leopard Upgrade Licenses for use on Apple-branded Systems
PLEASE READ THIS SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT ("LICENSE") CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE APPLE SOFTWARE. BY USING THE APPLE SOFTWARE, YOU ARE AGREEING TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE, UNLESS YOU RETURN THE APPLE SOFTWARE IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLE’S RETURN POLICY.
2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions.
A. Single Use License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, unless you have purchased a Family Pack or Upgrade license for the Apple Software, you are granted a limited non-exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-branded computer at a time. You agree not to install, use or run the Apple Software on any non-Apple-branded computer, or to enable others to do so. This License does not allow the Apple Software to exist on more than one computer at a time, and you may not make the Apple Software available over a network where it could be used by multiple computers at the same time.
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Snow Leopard for 1 user on 2 machines

Can anyone confirm if it is legally possible to run a single user license of Snow Leopard on two machines being used by just one person?
I have a Mac Pro I use for work in my office and a MacBook Pro that I use when I am traveling and as a backup incase the desktop machine fails. I purchased a family pack of Leopard to install on my two machines in the past and now want to upgrade to Snow Leopard. I have recently been told that if it is just me using my two machines and I do not use them at the same time it is completely legal to install one version of a piece of software onto my two Macs.
Is this true and is it possible to install a single user license onto two macs?
Many thanks.

Just to confirm (as your response was edited whilst I was typing my last reply), it would have been worth buying a single user license IF it were legal to install it on 2 machines. Here in the UK the single user license version costs £25 ($39.85) and the family pack costs £50 ($79.71). Thats quite a difference IF the family pack were not needed. But as I do not condone software piracy I'll be buying the family pack anyway.
Thanks again.

Upgrading to OS X 10.5 with Family Packs

I would like to update my old PowerPMacs and my Intel iMac to OS X 10.5 Leopard on the following computers:
eMac 700Mhz running 10.3.9
12in Powerbook 867Mhz running 10.3.9
15in Powerbook 1.67Ghz running 10.4.11
20i Intel iMac 2 Ghz CoreDuo running 10.4.11
I know it might be impossible to actually get hold of Leopard nowadays, my eMac and 12inch Powerbook might struggle to run Leopard, and I will want to upgrade the iMac further, but my main question is this. If I see a 'used' copy of a Family Pack for`Leopard, say on eBay, is it safe to buy? Or if it says it has been used on two computers, will I only be able to install it on three of my own?
Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated. The older Macs are running things like Youtube slowly at low res, and Flash video sites are a pain. Plus the 15in Powerbook keeps looking for plugin updates on everything. I know upgrading to Leopard is as far as I can go on the PowerPc Macs, but as the computers can still be used, I would like to get them running as best as possible, even if this circumstance will obviously reoccur as time goes on.
Mark

I wonder if there would be any point trying to get a Family pack for 10.4 Tiger for the eMac and 12inch Powerbook! lol
I wouldn't think so. Installing Tiger is not going to rejuvenate them.
Is there a link tro the various types of OS X upgrades? I should be trying to get discs that are black with the large'X' across the full disc, correct? The grey discs that come with your Macs are not the ones to get (Install/Recovery)?
Correct, the grey disks are model specfic and they may not load.
The following shows retail disks OS 10.1 10.2 10.3
----------------------------- 10.4 10.5 10.6
The point to consider is the last one, Snow Leopard (for your intel) was until recently, availble for only $30. It may still be possible to order one if you ring an Apple store.

How can I Tell if my Snow Leopard disk is a family pack

Last year my daughter's macbook HD crashed. She's going to school in FL, got a new HD, and I told her to upgrade the OS and get a Snow Leopard Family Pack, and send it home. I'm finally getting around to installing it and it won't work. I get to the point of selecting a HD — it says my it can't be installed on my HD, but can install it on my emergency startup parition. I ran Disk Utitlities/Repair Disk, it says it's fine. I'd rather not go through the erase disk process. Any suggestions?
Thanks
Mike

Doesn't matter. Apple runs install discs on the honor system. It's up to you to follow the rules. If the one you have won't install, then there's something amiss with your installation. BTW, you show that you're running SL, so why are you wanting to install it? Try an update installer instead, such as the Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1.

Snow Leopard Family Pack but still need one copy of 10.5

I have 4 Intel Macs and 1 PPC (G5, Dual, Tower). My OS' look like this:
PPC Tower - 10.4
Intel Tower - 10.4
Intel Tower - 10.4
Mini Mac - 10.5
MacBook Pro - 10.5
The MacBook and Mini Mac came with 10.5 so I don't have the OS disk.
I am ordering the Snow Leopard Family Pack to upgrade the Intel machines.
Does anybody know how (given the parameters above) to get my PPC 10.4 to
10.5 (Leopard) without buying a new License? Seems like I have the License
already but I don't have the disks so I can move it to another serial number.
Thanks.

Do note that the PPC machine won't run Snow Leopard and you'll need a retail Leopard disk to get it to that or combine it with a Leopard family pack ($199) and use it to get the Intel towers to Leopard, followed by a Snow Leopard family pack ($49) or get the Tiger to Snow Leopard boxed set family pack for $229 for the towers (which won't work for the PPC). Alternatively, check out the price combos at http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/snowleopard/index.html#d20aug2009

I own Snow Leopard Family Pack and an acquaintance installed it onto their MBP without permission. How can I revoke that license?

I own Snow Leopard Family Pack and an acquaintance installed it onto their MacBook Pro without permission. How can I revoke that license? I don't have access to their MBP, but I have access to all the other authorized computers using the family pack.

No. The license is a legal agreement, not a technical measure to restrict installation or duplication. There's nothing to stop you from installing it on 20 Macs in your household save that you are subject to a binding legal agreement that says you have permission to install it on no more than 5. If you break the terms of the contract, you may be subject to civil litigation. If someone steals your copy and uses it without authorization, they are similarly liable.
In practice, Apple trusts you to be honest because, frankly, until it gets to a certain point, it's just not worth the money to file a complaint against you. That's not to say that they couldn't, or even shouldn't enforce the terms of the license agreement; caveat sycophanta.

Snow Leopard upgrade- family version

Silly question, I know, but this is my first Mac upgrade. I have a Macbook and an iMac, each running OS 10.5. If I upgrade to Snow Leopard do I need a family version or will a single pack handle both machines. I'm trying to get smarter.

Legally you are obligated to install one license per machine, regardless of whether or not the installer will install to multiple machines. The single license is for one machine only, and the family pack is for up to five machines in the same household (no businesses). If you have multiple machines, the family pack will be the cheapest legal way to install OS X onto all of them.

Single user license of Snow Leopard on 2 machines then a family user straight to Lion?

I bought a single user license of Snow Leopard and installed it onto an external harddrive so I could boot my machine and check my applications such as Vectorworks 12.5 still work with the new OS.
Now I've done that on both Macs I have at home (MacBookPro 2.4 Intel Core 2 Duo and MacMini 1.83 Intel Core Duo), and now installed Snow Leopard properly on the MacMini (i.e. not booting off the external hard disk).
What I am wondering is that rather than purchase a 2nd user license of Snow leopard, if I was going to upgrade straight to Lion anyway, could I install my single license Snow Leopard on each machine, then upgrade both to Lion on a proper family user license given I'm not actually going to be using Snow Leopard if I upgrade to Lion?
thanks.

Yes the licence for SL states it can be installed and used on one machine. So if you remove it from the MBP (which you will if you run Lion on it) then there is no reason you can't use it on the Mac Mini.
And just for clarification there is no more Singel User or Family Pack or Family License for Lion. The license allows you to install and run it on as many systems as you own or control. So should you get a Lion compatible system in the future you can use the copy of Lion you now have on it also.
regards

Family Pack Leopard install fails G4 Dual 1.2Ghz

All, I purchased the Leopard family pack and have successfully installed it on an Intel Macbook Pro and a G5 2.3Ghz DP machine - flawless, no problems during installation or after.
However, any attempt to install on a G4 Dual 1.2Ghz + 2Gb of RAM + just bought a Seagate 500Gb Barracuda internal drive (well within the designated technical requirements), I've tried the following.
1. Booting the G4 off the Leopard install DVD, I get the following error: Failed Install message = "The Installer could not validate the contents of the Essentials Package...".
I can never get beyond this point. After receiving this error, the internal disk isn't even recognized on the bus - I have to pull the disk out, put it in an external case to reformat it. I've even tried a low level format and also had Seagate replace the disk thinking it was defective.
2. I then thought it may be an issue with putting the Seagate disk in cable select mode versus master / slave configuration. The Seagate is the only hard drive in the machine. I have tried both cable select and master/slave configuration - both freeze after install, etc. without fail.
3. Tried installing Leopard on the G4 by connecting it to the G5 in target disk mode. It installed, but routinely just freezes (NEVER had this issue with Tiger on this machine).
I do see lots of people posting issues with the "The Installer could not validate the contents of the Essentials Package..." error.
For the record, after successful Leopard install using technique #1 and #3 - I am also unable to run the Migration assistant - it fails every time with a kernel panic. I'm not having any trouble with the Leopard install media on any of the other 2 machines, nor did I have issues running the migration assistant.
Any ideas are appreciated. thx,

themdg - you said you put back your 2-512 original RAM cards and tried to install Leopard and the install failed. But my original, factory-installed RAM was third-party RAM which prevented me from installing Leopard, giving the “essentials” error. Only when I purchased RAM from Apple, and used only that RAM to install, could I get it to work correctly.
Check your original RAM. If it is not the Apple brand, it may not work because of that, even if it was the factory-installed RAM.
After I installed Leopard with only the Apple RAM, I added back the third-party RAM and I’ve been running Leopard flawlessly since.
It seems the installation software, which meticulously checks the installer disk for flaws, should also check the RAM to see if the installation will be successful (i.e., check to see if it is going to produce the “essentials” error) and also check to see if you have enough valid RAM to install, before it begins installation, and to let the user know there will be a problem unless the RAM is changed to valid cards.
I “assumed” I had enough valid RAM when I first tried to install Leopard because I had a G5, but it had only 256 MB of non-Apple brand RAM (minimum of 512 is required). A direct check of that by the installer and letting me know it was a problem would have saved me a lot of trouble checking lots of other potential problems, like a bad installer disk, a third-party drive, etc., before I figured out it was insufficient and incompatible RAM for the installation.
I read the minimal requirements for installation of Leopard and probably someone will say I should have checked all those before I tried the installation, but I didn’t, as I’m sure many others have not, because we “assume” Apple had tested it and would prevent us from making any mistake like this.
Previously Apple made their software and hardware to “just work” by providing error messages before we made an error and we have come to rely on that. But they overlooked this problem on this update. It’s the first time I’ve had a problem with an update from Apple.
I’m still a loyal Apple user, but I’ll check requirements a little closer with future updates.

Can I get Jam Packs for GarageBand '11 on Snow Leopard?

I have GarageBand '11 (v 6.0.5) on a MacBook 2 with Snow Leopard, and I would like to add Jam Packs. I know I can get them all if I buy MainStage and download them. Unfortunately MainStage is now in version 3.3, which does not run on Snow Leopard. And version 2, which does run on Snow Leopard, is no longer available. (Not supported, I understand. Not available for sale to willing owners of older equipment I don't understand. But I digress.)
I have a Mac Mini which I can upgrade to Mountain Lion, and get MainStage. Can I then move the Jam Packs from the Mini to the MacBook?
Thanks!

When you say you had to "run" MainStage 2 once - what does run mean? Did you have to open it or do anything else to run it?
I only launched it to be able to access the main menu bar and open the download panel.
I still downloaded these individual instruments but they do not appear in my Garageband loops or anywhere else on my iMac.
Have you rebooted the system after installing the additional content?
You should see additional instruments and loops in the system library (Your Macintosh HD > Library). Have you checked the following folders:
/Library/Audio/Apple Loops/Apple/ (for the loops)
and
/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/
/Library/Application Support/Logic/Sampler Instruments/
Perhaps you need to rebuild the Lopp Index, if you find the loops somewhere and they do not show in GarageBand: Rebuilding the Loop Index in GarageBand
Silly question, but you have checked, if no filters are set in the Inspector, right? The top of the Info Panel should be showing "Show all" and the search filed be empty.

Leopard 10.5.4 family pack

Hi,
I have a Powerbook G4 1.5 ghz processor power PC G4, 512 MB ram, OSX Panther Ver 10.3.4
I wish to upgrade to run VMware Fusion to run windows apps I have seen OSX Leopard 10.5.4 family pack and wondered if that is a full and suitable upgrade that will work for me?

Unfortunately, no, a software upgrade won't help you. What you need is to upgrade your Mac. You need a Mac with an Intel processor to run VMware.
Best you can do to run Windows apps with your current PowerPC Mac is to get an old copy of Virtual PC, which will allow you to run Windows under virtualization. It will be very slow.

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