HI Wamuggers Following on from my first post 10 days ago, to which Ronni replied with her advice, I have begun the upgrade process Ronni outlined, on one of my earlier MBPro machines (MacBook Pro "Core 2 Duo" 2.16 15" <http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook-pro-core-2-duo-2.16-15-specs.html>) which is running OSX 10.4.8.
The App store and a few other sites say to upgrade to El Capitan requires Snow Leopard (10.6.8) to be installed. Try as I may all yesterday, I was unable to install my DVD copy of SL (which came with my MBPro I now use (MBPro8,2 2011))? As previously mentioned, my other machine is MBPro3,2 running OSX 10.5.8 which I now find out that it too needs SL 10.6.8 to be upgraded to El Capitan and my version of SL does not work on this machine either. I see that I have to purchase SL from Apple for about $20 even though I already have it on a DVD!! This is becoming a bit annoying and Im wondering is there a way that I can actually use my DVD SL copy somehow to upgrade both my older MBPros? Perhaps in target mode? Many thanks for any advice on this. Best regards Chris On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Chris Burton <burtnch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks very much for your advice Ronni, it is great to hear from you. > > I wish you a wonderful christmas and upcoming new year > > best regards > > Chris > > On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > >> Hi Chris, >> >> You must Erase the MBP and a do a clean install of OS X. >> If you want to install El Capitan OS X 10.11 >> <http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/> >> >> >> - MacBook Pro <http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/> >> (Mid/Late >> 2007 or newer) >> >> At least 2 GB of RAM (more preferred) and more than 8 GB of storage >> space also are required for OS X El Capitan. Specific feature support >> <http://www.everymac.com/mac-answers/os-x-el-capitan-faq/os-x-el-capitan-compatible-macs-system-requirements.html#os_x_el_capitan_feature_compatibility_chart> >> varies, >> though. >> Otherwise you will have all sorts of permissions problems and >> incompatible software. >> Search WAMUG mailing list for instructions I've posted many times. >> >> I'm on a break and have limited access to my technology. >> If you want help from me, you will have to wait until I get back to work. >> Others might be able to help you. >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> Sent from Ronni's iPad4 >> >> >> On 25 Dec 2015, at 2:37 PM, Chris Burton <burtnch...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Greetings everyone, >> >> I hope you are all having a wonderful christmas. >> >> My daughter is down from Perth and said would like to have one of my >> older MBPro laptops and I am wondering what I need to do to change the >> admin from my details to hers, and suddenly realised that involves quite a >> lot of work!! >> >> I think it would be best for me to do a erase and clean install so that >> she can start from scratch; would that be the best thing to do? >> >> The machine I think is 2009 vintage, with 2.2ghz Core 2 Duo with 3gb ram, >> a 200gb HD and running 10.5.8. >> >> Its identifyer is MacBookPro 3,1 and the machine runs beautifully. >> >> Is it possible to clean install from the original disks then upgrade the >> software to the next few levels? >> >> Im not sure if that is feasible, and cant remember the name of the site >> that can provide this info? >> >> Would someone please be able to give me some advice on this? >> >> Many thanks and best regards >> >> Chris >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - < >> http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> > >
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