What now Mr SnowyLeopard?

Today (sun oct 25 ) i purchased SnowLeopard ( at a drug store ) and installed it using an MacIntel ( Tiger 10.4x ) to an external FireWired Drive ( formatted as instructed ) successfully according to the installer.
Then the installer counts down. The restart goes and goes and goes until the circle with a no entry slash shows up on the screen. The installer disc is still in the slot.
What now ?
Re-install, take the Disc back to mother Apple or try this all over again when the next upgrade comes up?
Please please help.
I think I'll read the installation instructions just for something to do in the meantime.
walter

donv (The Ghost) wrote: "I have been away from this topic for a good while. Let me know if I have this right. Your are having problems completing an install on a firewire external drive that is partitioned GUID. Installation is complete to a point, but then the installer goes for a restart, the disk ejects, and the install fails.
If I am pretty close above, how about cloning your internal drive to the external and trying to install Sno on your internal? Alternatively, you could do the cloning, install Tiger on your internal, and upgrade from Tiger directly to Sno.
I can't do an install to the internal drive because the MacIntell belongs to my wife and she does not want me "messing" her files or her hard drive. She only allows me to use her MacIntel to work of an external drive.
When I get the "green" check mark at the end of installation telling me the install is successfull the DVD has to stay in the drive so that on the restart you can now setup a user's "ownership". I've done many many OS X installs and never does the DVD spit out. It always stays in the drive until you go thru the final step in the installation which is to set up a user's "ownership".
Incidentally, as a matter of personal choice, I do not do builds of OS on top of OS. I have FW external drives of OS Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard, and hopefully Snow leopard.
I am going to phone apple tomorrow again and see what they say: sometimes they are not that knowledgeable: for example today the apple telephone rep said he's never heard or seen the circle with a slash thru it. Oh well you only get the kind of help for the price you pay.

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