Re: Macs capable of booting Leopard Mac OS X 10.5 without special help

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Hi a brody,
Wow, lots of research into this one.
iMac model M9105LL/A is under the will boot to Mac OS X 10.5 listing but I see it is an 800MHz model making me think it won't natively install.
And do you think there should be an extra note that several older units may need memory upgrades, not just the Mac Minis? (Although I understand that specific "heads up" since it is not "user installable.")
Thanks,
Nubz

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It is retail disk, i bought it in apple store. I also resetter PRRAM and SMC and checked disk. I also tried clean installation and upgrade, nothing works, after run installation program after few seconds wrote: OS X Snow Leopard cannot be install on this machine :-(
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I'm wondering if it is possible to dual boot an earlier OSX version on a machine pre-installed with Mountain Lion.
I bought a new MBPro (9.2) which came with Mountain Lion pre-installed.
I also have the hard disk from my older MacBook (keyboard non-functional) which has two partitions: OSX Leopard (10.5.8 I believe) and Windows XP. I have put this disk in an external USB housing.
I would like to be able to dual boot Leopard on my MBP from the USB external HD and run Parallels/Windows XP and other OSX applications non-supported by ML also on that disk.
After plugging in the USB drive, I pressed the option key during boot and 4 are displayed; MacHD (ML internal), Recovery, MacHD (Leopard) and Windows XP.
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No, it's not possible:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2186

Dual Booting Leopard on MacBook Pro (Early '13)

Hello,
I'm desperately trying to dual boot Leopard (OSX 10.5) on my early 2013 MacBook Pro but am seeing no luck. I know the newer MacBook Pro models do not have the right drivers to run older software so I need a VM such as Parallels to run it. I got the trial version of Parallels but it keeps saying I need OSX Server Leopard. Is there any other way to dual boot leopard on my mac?
I'm wanting to do this as there are certain apps which require Rosetta to run, which support for on Mac was discontinued from OSX Lion.
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1) Parallels (I know this one, I don't know others)
2) A DVD of snow leopard server from Apple ($20)
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Try any of the following:
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If Disk Utility is unable to complete the repair, you will need to use a stronger 3rd party utility like DiskWarrior, Techtool PRO (not Deluxe) or Drive Genius.
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Bob Wines.

Thanks for your detailled description of the faxmodem installation!
I've tried this with Mac OS X v10.8 Mountain Lion and it works fine.
I've to type "cupsctl WebInterface=yes" in terminal to see the interface.
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Allan's answer is irrelevant as he refers to Snow Leopard. He must have isread your post!
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How to boot leopard from cd?

Hey guys,
Maybe a silly question, but I need to know how to boot leopard from its insallation dvd, is that possible?
I would like to boot my mac from dvd, so that i can then use the disk utility to partition my internal hard drive, and i think this is only possible if you dont boot from the hd it self.
Obviously I am able to boot from the dvd in the way that it starts the leopard installation, but thats not what i need i guess? at least when the installation start, i dont see an option to start disk utility from there?
so i need to actually boot the system from the dvd, in order to partition "on the fly" without losing the data on my disk.
I hope someone knows.
thanks in advance.
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Boot from the Install disc. Select the Language. Then as soon as the menu bar appears you'll see a Utilities Menu. Select Disk Utility from there.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24950
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1544
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Snow Leopard Tech Specs
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If so Contact Apple in your Country to Purchase a Snow Leopard Disc...
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1-800-MY-APPLE or 1-800-676-2775
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and in the UK:
http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MC573/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
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