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.
'Day' is a vestigial mode of time measurement based on solar cycles. It's not applicable. I didn't get you anything.
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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 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...
tommyrot - Sep 19, 2009 10:41:25 am PDT #11199 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
We should have all installed Snow Leopard at the same time, and had an Install and Post....
Somewhat relatedly, when is Apple gonna release an OS called "House Cat"? "Sphynx"? "Hairless Cat"?
NoiseDesign - Sep 19, 2009 10:48:57 am PDT #11200 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
In a few years they will release Cougar, you just won't be able to let it near any of the earlier OS versions.
Barb - Sep 19, 2009 11:05:26 am PDT #11201 of 25501
“Not dead yet!”
In a few years they will release Cougar, you just won't be able to let it near any of the earlier OS versions.
::groan::
Jon B. - Sep 19, 2009 11:14:45 am PDT #11202 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
The Install and Post continues... Leopard is installed! I think I'll take a breather before retrying to install Snow Leopard.
NoiseDesign - Sep 19, 2009 11:39:59 am PDT #11203 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
I still haven't put snow leopard on any of my machines. I do have someone running Leopard installs and updates on two new MacPro Towers and on two new Mac Minis right now though. Actually I'll have to check, the Minis might have shipped with Snow Leopard.
omnis_audis - Sep 19, 2009 11:44:00 am PDT #11204 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
ND, do you know if Snow Leopard will run Qlab?
Jon B. - Sep 19, 2009 12:09:49 pm PDT #11205 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Uggh. Well, I tried to install Snow Leopard again and the same thing happened as before: It starts to install fine, but at a certain point, the progress screen disappears (it may have rebooted at this point -- I was away from the puter for a couple of minutes when this happened) and in its place I see the small round rotating thingie. After a minute or two of this, the screen goes blank. I'll leave it running for a couple of hours just to see what, if anything happens.
I suppose the DVD may be defective and I should try to exchange it?