Snow Leopard retail DVD vs MacPro

Good afternoon.
MacPro (2.8QCX/3X1G/1TB/5770)  (MC560LL/A) (mid-2010)
I received this without a HD (due to proprietary software).
Will the retail Snow Leopard (marked OS 10.6.3) install fully on a new HD?
Apple tech support is adament about it working properly.
Thanks for your time.

The retail disk is unlikely to work. I have almost the same Mac. It is also a mid 2010 Mac Pro (though mine with the 3.3 GHz CPUs). Like yours, it came with 10.6.4. I've tried the 10.6.3 retail disk with this Mac, and it will not boot to that disk. Per the usual reason, the necessary hardware drivers aren't on the 10.6.3 retail disk since my model was released later. Hence, you need the 10.6.4 gray disks it came with in order to install Snow Leopard.

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