Can i update the Tiger 10.4.11 to a Snow leopard? If i can do i have to buy the mac box set?

Question

I don't really want to buy the mac box set, it's US$169, and i don't think my mom will allow me to buy it.

Answer 1

The "Mac Box Set" includes three DVDs: Snow Leopard, iWork, and iLife '09. The US$29 DVD of Snow Leopard is the same, but without the other application suites.



If your Mac is currently running Tiger (OS 10.4.x), you cannot upgrade directly no matter which DVD you use. The Snow Leopard installer will refuse to install over Tiger. You will have three choices:

[1] Erase the entire hard drive.

[2] Create a new partition to install Snow Leopard separate from Tiger. This has the advantage of allowing you to boot to your old Tiger system to use older software. To do this, you have to either boot to target disk mode, connect your Mac to another Firewire Mac that is running OS 10.5.x or 10.6.x, or boot to an OS 10.5.x or 10.6.x Install DVD.

[3] (if your Mac has Firewire and you have enough available space on the hard drive) you can make a folder called "Previous system", boot to target disk mode, connect your Mac to another Firewire Mac move the Tiger folders (Applications, Library, System, and Users) into the "Previous Systems" folder, and then boot to the Snow Leopard DVD to install normally. With a non-Firewire Mac, you could do this in single user mode (UNIX command line), but it's not for the faint of heart or those with bad typing skills, as you can mess things up by typing incorrectly.

Answer 2

Are you asking (a million)why that is not any longer technically accessible or (2)why that is not any longer legally accessible? (a million) that is technically accessible. The Mac container Set has precisely the comparable Snow Leopard DVD because of the fact the guy DVD. It merely risk-free iWork and iLife. once you attempt to place in, it ought to no longer enable you to place in Snow Leopard over Tiger or it ought to alert you that it will pass all your Tiger gadget archives to the trash, on the grounds that they do no longer seem to be like minded with Snow Leopard. Snow Leopard has some extra valuable properties that are no longer in Leopard, however the important distinction is that Snow Leopard has a "%code loose" set of archives. that is Intel merely, the place Tiger (10.4.6 or later) and Leopard have been %or Intel. To make an difficulty-free and powerful Intel-merely installation, the Snow Leopard installer desires to do away with Tiger archives. (2) Apple would not clarify the legal restrict. They very own the licensing rights to their OS, so as that they arrive to a determination what regulations they like to persist with.

Answer 3

First of all check what processor your current mac has - if you're running 10.4 at the moment you may have a ppc processor in which case you won't be able to run Snow Leopard (10.6), Leopard (10.5) will be the highest you can upgrade it.



To check go to the Apple icon top left corner or your screen and go down to About this Mac. If it doesn't mention Intel on the Processor line, don't buy Snow Leopard.