Upgrade from 10.5.8 to 10.6 does not work on MacMini

Hi
I tried all advices given on the support pages, well, all but removing my boot volume, as I installed many different programs, but neither an upgrade nor an installation of snow leopard does work.
I always get the message like: volume cannot be used to start the system
the only thing I did some time ago was installing ubuntu and thus repartitioning the internal disk (resizing the MacOs partition and adding an ext3 partition an a swap partition)
any help appreciated, cc

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
A Mac Mini with only 2 USB ports on the rear can't have Snow Leopard installed.
A Mac Mini with more USB ports can only install Snow Leopard, if at least 1 GB of RAM is available. Go to Apple menu -> About This Mac. If it is says 512 MB of RAM, that's not enough. So even if the hard drive is formatted properly, your hardware must also be ready for it.

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