Jon Hayden Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 I've been following Doriean's tutorial here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=203728 However, after I select the language, I get a popup that says I can't install on this computer. It gives me 2 selections to either recover from backup or reboot. If I reboot, I'm back to the beginning. If I choose to recover I'm at least able to go in to the disk utility and partition the drive as described. But once I'm done using the disk utility, I don't know what to do because I was never given the "continue" option. Is there a way to install from this point? Thanks for any tips you can give me. This is my first attempt at trying this. Jon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra03 Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 I would bet it is because you're booting with the -x flag (for safe boot). In which case you can only install from an image file. You will have to remove -x to install from a retail copy of SL.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Hayden Posted January 22, 2011 Author Share Posted January 22, 2011 I would bet it is because you're booting with the -x flag (for safe boot). In which case you can only install from an image file. You will have to remove -x to install from a retail copy of SL.... Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure how to remove the -x. What I was able to do was press "q" after the SLBoot 132 disk booted up and after I put in the retail disk. That gave me a "boot:" prompt and from there I typed a "-v" for verbose and no other options so I don't think it's using a -x. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Hayden Posted January 23, 2011 Author Share Posted January 23, 2011 Okay I did some searching and it might be due to the fact that I'm using my Snow Leopard CD from my macbook. I didn't realize a retail version is different from the version that comes with my macbook. I ordered 10.6.3 for $29 from Amazon and I'll try that and see if that might be the cause. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Hayden Posted January 27, 2011 Author Share Posted January 27, 2011 As a follow up to this problem, I bought the $29 retail DVD and that worked like a charm to get me past this problem. I still have other issues, but it was nice to finally get past this. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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