10.4.11 to 10.5.5 OSX possible?

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Brian3113

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Hello, I'm new to this, so bear with me... Recently none of my applications barring safari have been able to open. They just bounce in the dock and then nothing happens... I have microsoft office '04 and every time I attempt to open a word document the Word icon just bounces and then quits without ever launching. I tried uninstalling but I can't uninstall Microsoft Office '04 b/c the uninstall application quits before it launches. Not sure what the problem is but it's finals week and I need to be able to access my files, so I went down to my brothers place to grab his MacBook Mac OS X Install DVD. However, when I run it, I get a message that says "mac os x cannot be installed". I was thinking of erasing my HD completely (I've backed up all the files), but I want to know if I were to do this....would the OS X then be able to install? Can you erase your HD and get from 10.4.11 to 10.5.5?

My comp's specs are as follows:
Mac OS X version 10.4.11
@GHz Intel Core Duo
1 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

I've tried all the disk utilities and permissions and disk repair have not helped.

HELP!?

Thanks so much,

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To upgrade to 10.5 you need a retail disc. Using a grey install disc that comes with another Mac will not work. Retail discs are Black not Grey.

If you have the grey discs that came with your Mac, you could try a clean install of the 10.4 system and then do the combo upgrade from the Apple site to 10.4.11. But you will have to reinstall all the applications again too.
 
Brian3113 said:
So there is no way to use these new install disks and wipe my HD?
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Nope. The gray system OEM discs only work for those specific models of Macintosh. They won't work across other Mac models. Only the retail versions (black disc with a large "X" splashed across it) will work with any Mac, and the retail versions don't come with iLife as that's a separate purchase.
 
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