How to remove Snow Leopard (or any OSX system) from a volume

Hi,
when I installed Lion I cloned my Snow Leopard system on another volume, in case I would encounter problems. Since then this second but unused system resides on that volume, beside other files.
How can I remove Snow Leopard without erasing all of the files. Does deleting the OSX folder Users, Library, System, Applications and so on do the trick? Are there any invisible folders ? Is there an app, that can do it?
Thanks in advance!
Philipp

Click on the spotlight logo in the top right, search disk utilitys, select the 10.6 partition then erase it

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/15638.html
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Source:    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Kernel_2013-12-21-053633_Shauns-MacBook-Pro.pan ic
Size:    10 KB (9,960 bytes)
Last Modified:    22/12/2013 9:34 am
Recent Contents:    Anonymous UUID:       860F2C41-CF11-4C8B-FCD5-3C62C2E31BE0
Sat Dec 21 05:36:33 2013
panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff7f9a757fac): "GPU Panic: [<None>] 3 3 7f 0 0 0 0 3 : NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x00610210: CFG 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0xffffffff, BAR0 0xd2000000 0xffffff812c2ee000 0x0a5480a2, D0, P3/4\n"@/SourceCache/AppleGraphicsControl/AppleGraphicsControl-3.4.12/src/Apple MuxControl/kext/GPUPanic.cpp:127
Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff80255230b0 : 0xffffff8018422f69
0xffffff8025523130 : 0xffffff7f9a757fac
0xffffff8025523200 : 0xffffff7f98e1c53d
0xffffff80255232c0 : 0xffffff7f98ee8d9e
0xffffff8025523300 : 0xffffff7f990a38e5
0xffffff8025523330 : 0xffffff7f990a4695
0xffffff8025523370 : 0xffffff7f98dfcb9a
0xffffff8025523490 : 0xffffff7f98dfd5a4
0xffffff8025523520 : 0xffffff7f98dfa808
0xffffff8025523560 : 0xffffff7f98dfa785
0xffffff8025523600 : 0xffffff7f98e20c4c
0xffffff8025523800 : 0xffffff7f98e21af6
0xffffff80255238e0 : 0xffffff7f99d8dba2
0xffffff8025523920 : 0xffffff7f99d9d55f
0xffffff8025523940 : 0xffffff7f99dcb51b
0xffffff8025523980 : 0xffffff7f99dcb57b
0xffffff80255239c0 : 0xffffff7f99da2ff5
0xffffff8025523a10 : 0xffffff7f99d6ed3e
0xffffff8025523aa0 : 0xffffff7f99d6acc7
0xffffff8025523ad0 : 0xffffff7f99d68816
0xffffff8025523b00 : 0xffffff80188cb873
0xffffff8025523b90 : 0xffffff80188cd76f
0xffffff8025523bf0 : 0xffffff80188cb28f
0xffffff8025523d40 : 0xffffff80184b6008
0xffffff8025523e50 : 0xffffff8018426bb1
0xffffff8025523e80 : 0xffffff80184139b5
0xffffff8025523ef0 : 0xffffff801841e003
0xffffff8025523f70 : 0xffffff80184c921d
0xffffff8025523fb0 : 0xffffff80184f3e26
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BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WindowServer
Mac OS version:
13B42
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 13.0.0: Thu Sep 19 22:22:27 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2422.1.72~6/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 1D9369E3-D0A5-31B6-8D16-BFFBBB390393
Kernel slide:     0x0000000018200000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8018400000
System model name: MacBookPro6,2 (Mac-F22586C8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 44018298777100
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How to get Snow Leopard for Mac 10.5.8 not Intel Based

how to get snow leopard to not intel based Mac 10.5.8

Is it a Mac Pro, or a Powermac?
At the Apple Icon at top left>About this Mac.
Then click on More Info>Hardware and report this upto *but not including the Serial#*...
Hardware Overview:
Machine Name: Power Mac G5 Quad
Machine Model: PowerMac11,2
CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (1.1)
Number Of CPUs: 4
CPU Speed: 2.5 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB
Memory: 10 GB
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You have entirely too little free space on the boot drive, for best performance it's best to have hard drives only 50% filled max and never more than 80% filled.
See Storage Drive here and reduce some space also make a seperate bootable clone backup of all your data BEFORE upgrading
Most commonly used backup methods
see here for how to find your disk space
Why is my computer slow?
If you upgrade and it doesn't go right or slows the machine down you might need to erase and install, which all your programs will have to be reinstalled from original sources and files from backup.
How to erase and install Snow Leopard 10.6
If you can't do this, then hire a local PC/Mac specialist.
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Leave the Lions for a brand new machine with a SSD drive.

All applications in iWork fail to open after installing latest apple update. iMac running 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. Have tried reinstalling from iWork disc but no improvement. Help!

All applications in iWork fail to open after installing latest apple update. iMac running 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. Have tried reinstalling from iWork disc but no improvement. Help!
Error report as follows
Process:         Pages [208]
Path:            /Applications/iWork '09/Pages.app/Contents/MacOS/Pages
Identifier:      com.apple.iWork.Pages
Version:         4.1 (923)
Build Info:      Pages-9230000~1
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [93]
Date/Time:       2012-08-22 12:33:15.909 +0100
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report:          102101 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           11
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 2217715 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   4
Anonymous UUID:                      1FA704D3-D5EF-4CE3-9813-42E4559157DC
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0
Dyld Error Message:
Symbol not found: _SFAAutosaveUserActivityException
Referenced from: /Applications/iWork '09/Pages.app/Contents/MacOS/Pages
Expected in: /Library/Application Support/iWork '09/Frameworks/SFArchiving.framework/Versions/A/SFArchiving

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Process:         Pages [13521]
Path:            /Applications/iWork '09/Pages.app/Contents/MacOS/Pages
Identifier:      com.apple.iWork.Pages
Version:         4.3 (1048)
Build Info:      Pages-10480000~1
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [153]
User ID:         501
Date/Time:       2013-03-11 14:57:02.175 -0400
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.8.2 (12C3103)
Report Version: 10
Crashed Thread: 0
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Application Specific Information:
dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: @rpath/SFCompatibility.framework/Versions/A/SFCompatibility
Referenced from: /Applications/iWork '09/Pages.app/Contents/MacOS/Pages
Reason: image not found
Binary Images:
    0x1000 -   0x354fe3 com.apple.iWork.Pages (4.3 - 1048) <3F2BE397-E81E-3355-C0DE-8B0F014E897B> /Applications/iWork '09/Pages.app/Contents/MacOS/Pages
0x3ec000 -   0x46bff7 com.apple.iLifeMediaBrowser (2.7.2 - 546) <24A0A118-874B-3C7C-B50C-C80BED03A15F> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iLifeMediaBrowser.framework/Versions/A/iLifeM ediaBrowser
0x8fe3e000 - 0x8fe70e57 dyld (210.2.3) <23DBDBB1-1D21-342C-AC2A-0E55F27E6A1F> /usr/lib/dyld

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