Snow leopard boot disk9/13/2023 ![]() ![]() I held down the Option key (which is Mac-speak for "let me choose which disk to boot from"). ![]() Fortunately, I have a spare USB-based external DVD drive, so I plugged that into the Mac mini, loaded the disk, and booted. First, of course, the Mac mini server doesn't have a media slot. Installing Snow Leopard on the Lion-based Mac mini server proved to be more trouble than I expected. This was a very nice store, but you can see how Apple supports its non-Apple branded retailers - I had received my new Lion-based Mac mini before the store got their first new Lion-based machine from last week's new model introductions. This retailer pre-dates the Apple-owned stores and has still managed to hang on in the face of Apple's retail competition. I finally found a copy of Snow Leopard at a local Apple-specialist store, Visual Dynamics. In any case, after looking on Apple's site and looking on Amazon, calling my not-really-local Apple Store (it's an hour and a half away if traffic's on your side), and checking with all the Best Buys within an hour drive, I struck out. ![]()
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