Hi Ronni Thanks very much for your great advice on this, I have found it quite frustrating, as I havnt done a lot of upgrades of the past years, so it is a steep learning curve!!
Do you think that Yosemite may be a better upgrade to my MBPro3.1 rather than El Capitan as you say it might not run that well? Or perhaps I should just do an upgrade to Snow Leopard and leave it at that for my daughter Best regards Chris On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > I'm on leave and unable to help at this time, other than my comments in > Situ below. > On 3 Jan 2016, at 10:39 AM, Chris Burton <burtnch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > > > If this is a 2006/2007 *MacBookPro2,2* the maximum OS it can run is *OS > X 10.7.5 * > OS X 10.4.8 was its original install so it has never been upgraded. > > > The App store and a few other sites say to upgrade to El Capitan requires > Snow Leopard (10.6.8) to be installed. > > > The link I sent in my previous reply gave details Under the "How to > Upgrade" tab - that OS X Snow Leopard version 10.6.8 was required. > And -"Mac computers introduced in 2009 and later, and some models > introduced in 2007 and 2008, can be upgraded to El Capitan." > <http://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade/> > > > 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))? > > > Is this is the DVD that came with the MacBook Pro as the original system > installation disk? It probably is only able to reinstall on that computer. > You require a Retail Snow Leopard DVD. > > > 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. > > > You mentioned below that this was a MacBookPro3,1 > Which was Introduced in June 2007. It is listed capable of running OS X > 10.11.2 but I'm not sure how well it will run with specs 2.2GHz & only 3GB > RAM? > > > I see that I have to purchase SL from Apple for about $20 even though I > already have it on a DVD!! > > > If it isn't the Retail version, you would need to purchase it at > <http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard> > > > 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 > > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 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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