lisagauss Posted December 7, 2002 Share Posted December 7, 2002 hey everyone....i must first say that i am a newbie to mac's. so here goes: I am currently trying to install MAC OS X 10.2 on my cousin's imac. i popped in the cd it asked me to reboot to intall and so i did...after the installer loaded, i followed all the promps, then it asked me for the destination...when i went to choose the hard drive, it said the following "you cannot instal MAC OS X on this disk. an earlier version of MAC OS X is not installed". so i thought that it was trying to do an upgrade and it cannot upgrade from mac os 8.6. so i went into disk utility and formatted the hard drive. I went ahear again with the installer, and again it keps saying the same thing: "you cannot instal MAC OS X on this disk. an earlier version of MAC OS X is not installed". I know this isn;t the upgrade cd cause my friend told me that it was the full install. it is not a boot leg it is an original...also, in the installer it says the u can choose between upgrade or install, but it does not give me that option. any help pleaseeeeeeee!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted December 7, 2002 Veteran Share Posted December 7, 2002 just because your friend "says" it's the full thing, doesn't validate it as being so. On the disc, under where it says "Mac OS X v10.2", does it say "Upgrade". That'd be a good sign it's not the full thing ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisagauss Posted December 7, 2002 Author Share Posted December 7, 2002 damnnn@!@@@!!! your right..it is a stupid upgrade. now what!>??? now im stuck with out an OS. are mac os cds cheap?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadishTM Veteran Posted December 7, 2002 Veteran Share Posted December 7, 2002 Does your cousin's iMac come with an Mac OS 9 CD?, cuz use that then upgrade to OS X .... Have'nt used Mac's in a long time so i'm not sure :unsure: .... Radish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisagauss Posted December 7, 2002 Author Share Posted December 7, 2002 no he has no cd's of any older versions of mac. im looking through ebay right now to check out if they have anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahodes1 Posted December 7, 2002 Share Posted December 7, 2002 OS9 CDs should be pretty cheap. If you are a teacher by chance u get a free OS9 and OS X 10.2 CD... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisagauss Posted December 7, 2002 Author Share Posted December 7, 2002 other than ebay...where else would a desperate person such as myself look b4 my cousin notices that i messed things up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahodes1 Posted December 7, 2002 Share Posted December 7, 2002 http://www.apple.com/education/macosxforte...ers/index2.html was the offer i was citing for those interested Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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