I guess I missed that iOS 10.3 requires Sierra, good thing I haven't upgraded my iPhone 6 yet! Unless I do some upgrades on my 2008 iMac I am NOT doing Sierra.
Russell Courtenay July is national what month? tinyurl.com/julybeans Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 31, 2017, at 11:06 PM, mike.ansberry1...@gmail.com wrote: > > >> Sorry it took so long to get back to you guys. Life has been busy. > I was able to resurrect my iMac. I found a way to eject the stuck Snow > Leopard disc and put in an install disc that I found in the original Apple > Care package that came with the computer and boot from it holding down the C > key. From there I was able to clean up some of the mess with disk utilities. > I have been back up and running for about a week. > > Why do I want to run Sierra on this old computer? I need to have Sierra > running to connect my iPhone 5S to the iMac so I can load my music and other > stuff on the phone using iTunes. My iphone is running on ios 10.3 and it > will not connect with the iMac running 10.7.5. I don't have a good enough > reason to spend $1500+ on a new computer. This old iMac runs great on 10.7. > It does a good job of making videos and burning them, running my music > editing and recording software, and just about anything else I need done. > No point in buying a new machine. > > But I do still want to put Sierra on a partition on an external drive so I > can link up my phone. I guess I must have done something wrong on the > previous attempt. I am going to give it another try tomorrow. I'll read > through the literature on using the install patch again and hopefully I won't > screw it up this time. > -- > You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group > for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette > guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com > To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iMac Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
