I guess I missed that iOS 10.3 requires Sierra, good thing I haven't upgraded my iPhone 6 yet! Unless I do some upgrades on my 2008 iMac I am NOT doing Sierra.
Russell Courtenay July is national what month? tinyurl.com/julybeans Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 31, 2017, at 11:06 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > >> Sorry it took so long to get back to you guys. Life has been busy. > I was able to resurrect my iMac. I found a way to eject the stuck Snow > Leopard disc and put in an install disc that I found in the original Apple > Care package that came with the computer and boot from it holding down the C > key. From there I was able to clean up some of the mess with disk utilities. > I have been back up and running for about a week. > > Why do I want to run Sierra on this old computer? I need to have Sierra > running to connect my iPhone 5S to the iMac so I can load my music and other > stuff on the phone using iTunes. My iphone is running on ios 10.3 and it > will not connect with the iMac running 10.7.5. I don't have a good enough > reason to spend $1500+ on a new computer. This old iMac runs great on 10.7. > It does a good job of making videos and burning them, running my music > editing and recording software, and just about anything else I need done. > No point in buying a new machine. > > But I do still want to put Sierra on a partition on an external drive so I > can link up my phone. I guess I must have done something wrong on the > previous attempt. I am going to give it another try tomorrow. I'll read > through the literature on using the install patch again and hopefully I won't > screw it up this time. > -- > You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group > for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette > guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To leave this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iMac Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
