Installing Snow Leopard On A 2008 Macbook

Apr 29, 2012

i was looking to install Snow Leopard from a second hand mac book pro (year 2010) I just bought onto my old 2008 Macbook. But the install DVD from the mac book pro would not install. My Mac book has an Intel 2.2GHz processor, 4GB of memory and 7.1 GB of free space on the hard drive. It comes up with a screen just saying it cannot be installed on this computer.

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The details are as follows: 

Model Name:    MacBook Pro
Model Identifier:    MacBookPro5,1
Processor Name:    Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed:    2.53 GHz
Number Of Processors:    1
Total Number Of Cores:    2
L2 Cache:    6 MB
Memory:    4 GB
Bus Speed:    1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version:    MBP51.007E.B06
SMC Version (system):    1.33f8
Serial Number (system):    W88460TU1GA
Hardware UUID:    B0F6EC73-8CE7-58F8-B300-769B4BBB1353
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State:    Enabled 
The retail dvd I have has a part number: MC223Z/A 

I am currently running 10.5.8 

Info:
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8), Upgrade to Snow Leopard

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