Upgrade Snow Leopard 10.6.2 to Snow Leopard Server 10.6
Hi,
I'm trying to upgrade one existing Mac with SL (10.6.2) to SLServer. SLS was bought 2 months ago and I guess it's still the original 10.6. When I try to install it over the updated Snow Leopard it will fail with an error indicating that it is an older version.
Questions:
- Is there a way to downgrade the SL to 10.6 again?
- Is there a way to create an "upgraded SLServer 10.6.2" from a DVD + 10.6.2.Combo Update.
Thanks for any help.
prc
The [Mac OS X Server / Upgrading and Migrating Version 10.6 Snow Leopard manual|http://images.apple.com/server/macosx/docs/Upgradingand_Migratingv10.6.pdf] contains this key detail (buried) on page 10:
+The promoting of a Mac OS X v10.6 client computer to a Mac OS X Server v10.6 is not supported.+
which certainly implies you're going to have to wipe the disk, install, and reload your files from archive.
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