Note: ECU has a license for the Macintosh operating system. Please do not install any personal software on an ECU owned machine. To acquire an upgrade, please put in a work order with the help desk.

These instructions are meant to help with personal or departmental installs. 

Instructions for Upgrade Install:

The Snow Leopard installation can be either an upgrade or a clean install on a disk that has no system at all. If you do a clean install, you will have to reinstall all of your applications (like Adobe) so gather your disks and licenses together.

Step 1: See if the Mac meets the minimum System Requirements.

Step 2: Prepare your disk by running Disk Utility.

Step 3: Make sure all the available updates have been installed for your current system.

Step 4: Check all your programs and make sure they are compatible with OS X.6. 

Step 5: Take screen shots of any custom settings in System Preferences, paying particular attention to Network and Sharing settings.

Step 6: Back up your data.

Tip: Want to start "fresh". Make an image of your current system, do a clean install of Snow Leopard and use the Migration Assistant to import your account, settings and applications.

Step 7: Insert the Snow Leopard DVD. (See MacBook Air instructions)

STEP 1:  

• Insert the OS X. 6 disc.
• Double-click on the "Install Mac OS X"
  

STEP 2:

• The Installer will start and you will be given the option of continuing the installation process or accessing the Utilities to complete tasks like restoring from a Time Machine backup or repairing a disk. The latter requires you to restart from the Install DVD. Click on the "Continue" button.
• The next window will prompt you to agree to the software license agreement.
  

STEP 3:

This is the Select a Destination window. Available drives will be listed here. In this case only one was ready. This is also your chance to customize the install.

STEP 4:

• The default installation includes a set of printer drivers for "popular" printers, 17 language translations and X11 support. 
• The optional installs are Rosetta and QuickTime 7 which support your older legacy applications or media. 
• It is suggested to install ALL printers on laptops, particularly ones used for travel purposes.
  

STEP 5: 

Confirm you wish to install Snow Leopard.

STEP 6:

Type in your administrator password.

STEP 7:

Wait for the install to complete. Do NOT interrrupt the process.

STEP 8:

Click on Done to Restart the machine. Run updates after installation.