OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: How To Set Up Mac To Auto-install Software Disk / When Insert It

Feb 21, 2012

can anyone tell me how do I set up my mac to auto install a software disk when I insert it.

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MAC OS X, Mac OS X (10.6.4), imac

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OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Is It Install DVD Supposed To Auto-eject During Installation

May 8, 2012

I just recently purchased Snow Leopard and everything seemed to be going well. The installer popped up after I put it into my External DVD Drive and the installation was going smoothly but soon my MBP would restart and the installation would continue. The problem is that at around 35% completion, or in my case 32 minutes left, the disc would come out of the drive and any attempts to put it back in would result in the DVD drive promptly spitting the disc back out. 

I don't think it's the MBP that is at fault since I would have received an error message or something of the like. My only guess is that either the Installation DVD is faulty or the External DVD Drive is causing the issue. I'm leaning towards the DVD Drive especially since it suddenly stopped reading the disc entirely while I'm typing this. I'm using an AmazonBasics USB 2.0 8x DVD Writer External Optical Drive which should be fully compatible with Macs.

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6)

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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Mar 31, 2012

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Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

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Oct 29, 2008

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Nov 30, 2010

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Apr 2, 2012

My HDD died recently and I cannot get booted into OS X. It just hangs on the grey screen with the apple. I am (was) running 10.6.8

I am having a lot of trouble trying to boot from my install DVD. First of all I purchased a new HDD which came with Lion pre-installed on it. This worked fine, except when I tried to restore my latest time machine back up it used up 200GB of my disk space but nothing is restored? No doucments or music anywhere, photos, nothing. There is no change at all except half my storage has disappeared. I had posted another question on here and the reply said to use setup assistant, which I could not locate in Lion? I then tried to install Snow Leopard back over Lion but it would not let me. I tried to boot to the install disk but it just hung at the apple screen again.

I gave up and bought another brand new HDD but it won't recognise it on boot up. I just get a flashing folder with a ? in it. I tried to boot into the install DVD and again it wouldn't do it.

I then went back to my original HDD, and tried to boot to the install DVD from that (I hadn't tried this first off as my install disk was elsewhere and I purchased the Lion HDD as a stop gap measure) and it STILL wouldn't do it? This is now the original disk with the original install DVD (10.6) issued with my macbook pro when I purchased it and it will not boot to the DVD. Why why why?! It is almost enough to make me bin the lot and switch to windows.

Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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Aug 28, 2009

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Some people apparently attributed the issue to a PGP installation they had on their harddrive. Others found a file called backup.backupdb in their root - deleting it fixed the problem. However, most people don't have any of that installed on their computers and the upgrade still won't work. - if anyone has found a solution to the issue, please let me know :-( I'm stuck here. I don't have an external drive for the MBA and booting from a network drive has never worked on this particular machine - so I can't do a clean install, either.

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Aug 28, 2009

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Aug 29, 2009

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Feb 11, 2012

I am trying to upgrade from leopard to snow leopard on my MacBook Pro. However, every time I insert the install disk, the machine whirs for a moment, and then ejects the disk with no error message. I tested my drive with a different dvd and it works just fine. All of my other software is up to date.

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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.5.8)

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Mar 21, 2012

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Jun 25, 2012

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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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Sep 30, 2009

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Aug 28, 2009

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May 10, 2012

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MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011)

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Jul 2, 2012

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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.5)

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Feb 21, 2012

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GarageBand (Mac) '11, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Garageband

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Jun 19, 2012

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