can you reboot from an external drive then eject the CD?
BTW, Snow Leopard took more than an hour to install for me. The longest was my primary laptop that has the most software and most used space.
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le nubian - Sep 19, 2009 8:33:09 am PDT #11189 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Steph L. - Sep 19, 2009 8:34:50 am PDT #11190 of 25501
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Jon, does your keyboard have a key with the "eject" symbol on it? If so, try holding that key down when you restart.
omnis_audis - Sep 19, 2009 8:41:12 am PDT #11191 of 25501
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When you press the start button, hold down the mouse button (left click if you have multi-button mouse). That ejects the disc on boot.
Jon B. - Sep 19, 2009 8:54:12 am PDT #11192 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Thanks, some combination of those mouse and keyboard tricks did in fact eject the DVD. But check this out: I guess it couldn't find a valid MAC OS, because it automatically started booting in Windows! (I've got Parallels installed).
I guess I'll try to boot from the DVD again? If that doesn't work, then what?
le nubian - Sep 19, 2009 9:05:11 am PDT #11193 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
do you have the original leopard disks?
Jon B. - Sep 19, 2009 9:07:52 am PDT #11194 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Yes, I have those. But let me ask you this: When you installed Snow Leopard, was there a long period when the screen was blank (as though it was off)? Because that's what's happening, even though I hear some hard drive or DVD (not sure which) whirring periodically.
Barb - Sep 19, 2009 9:12:11 am PDT #11195 of 25501
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It didn't go blank for me.
le nubian - Sep 19, 2009 9:19:03 am PDT #11196 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Jon,
I am not sure, but I think it is possible.
I think you should do the following:
a) reinstall leopard on your mac mini
b) repair permissions
c) try snow leopard again
d) after it starts, walk away for 2 hours
e) come back and see what happened.
Jon B. - Sep 19, 2009 9:23:26 am PDT #11197 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
OK, I will try to reboot with the Leopard disk inside and see what happens.
Jon B. - Sep 19, 2009 9:53:42 am PDT #11198 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Well, so far so good. The MacMini started up with the Leopard disk and it's now installing that OS. It's good to know that it wasn't a hardware problem (e.g. fried HD). Stay tuned...