HT1444 Upgrading from 10.5.8 to 10.6+ without an operating CD/DVD Drive?

Hi there, I own an iMac Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66 GHz 4GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, Early 2009 model, on OS X 10.5.8 and I definitely need to upgrade it to at least 10.6, since many things such as Flash Player, YouTube and several Apps are not running on my system. My CD/DVD drive has stuck a long time ago. It is neither a software issue, nor I am sure whether it is a hardware issue exactly as the CD has stuck in and it wont eject because the case has been harmed outside and it will not let the machine pop it out as it does not go out through the "hole", it bumps on the metal. I guess this requires a more specific repair which I cannot afford at the moment for such an old machine. Is it possible to upgrade using an other way? I do have the Snow Leopard setup disc but I cannot insert it! Maybe via an external CD/DVD drive? Please help! It will be very much appreciated. Thank you in advance!

Use an external drive which is capable of starting up your Mac model.
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HT1444 Upgrading from 10.5.8 to 10.6 (or later) which later version makes the most sense?

For work-related remote-access using Citrix, I will need to upgrade from V10.5.8 to V10.6 (or a later version). Which new version would make the most sense?

Since it's a 10.5 era issued machine and rather dated, the best OS X version is 10.6.3 via the white retail disks, call Apple Sales by phone and order it for $29.
10.6 will run your presently installed 10.5 software as 10.7 or 10.8 will not. Also 10.7 or 10.8 will slow your machine down to a crawl, so it doesn't make much sense to go there.
Since your machine is getting long in the tooth, it's got not that much longer to go, I would be considering a newer 10.8 or 10.9 machine (next summer) and ease yourself into in.
So 10.6 now, 10.8 or 10.9 on a new machine later.
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“Upon doing the initial upgrade, can I designate the target drive/letter”?
I didn’t see a place to change it in the upgrade process.
I don't want to uninstall sqlserver 2008, I just want to upgrade from 2008 to 2014 and be able to put the sqlserver 2014 software into the same drive (not C:) as my sqlserver 2008 is.
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deduce that your SQL Server is on C drive.
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Upgrade from 10.4.11 to Snow Leopard without Leopard?

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If I've read correctly, I need to first upgrade to OS X 10.5 Leopard.
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http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/
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HT1444 upgrade from 10.4

Can i upgrade my macbook from os 10.4 ?

I'm not sure why you posted this in the forum for 10.3 and earlier.
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HT1444 upgrading from mac os x 10.4.11 reccomendations

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MB427Z/A Leopard 10.5.1 install DVD
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Hello,
I want to upgrade my brother's computer from Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard) to Mac OS X 10.8.x (Mountain Lion).
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- I need the Snow Leopard DVD to upgrade to Snow Leopard
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