Hi guys,
I am trying to help my friend upgrade his older MBP from Tiger (10.4.11) to Snow Leopard. However I am running into an issue with burning a dual layer DVD of the DMG file we have of Snow Leopard. I tried both the drive built in to his mac (which I don't know if it would support DL DVDs or not) and I tried a portable drive which I know 100% supports DL DVD reading and writing.
His MBP has a 1.83ghz intel core duo processor and 1.5gb of ram. Hopefully that can help place the age of the computer. Unless there is a solution I can come up with, I am thinking about "burning" the DMG file to a USB flash drive and trying the install from that, but if anyone has any other suggestions, please let me know.
Also, any thoughts as to why CCC would crash the system? I was trying to do a bit for bit backup of his HD in case snow leopard ran slow on his system or in case things got mucked up during the install process, but after running for a bit all we got was the spinning beach ball and eventually the entire system locked up and we had to do a hard restart. Anyhow, TIA for the help guys.
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Here are the specs for your buddy's MBP:
MacBook Pro "Core Duo" 1.83 15" Specs (MacBook Pro, MA463LL/A*, MacBookPro1,1, A1150, N/A) @ EveryMac.com
Looks like it doesn't support dual-layer. My advice is to find a newer Mac and use Disk Utility to burn the .dmg to disc. -
edit: thanks for the link to the specs BTW.
edit 2: just took a closer look at the specs, it clearly says that it will read DL discs. good one. But now the question is why would it not work when I plugged in a USB DVD drive that supports both reading and writing of DL DVDs?
Slightly older MBP, questions from a non mac guy
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by lordvice, Sep 7, 2011.