Okay, here's one for you (can't install).

[hal]

The original install discs are not machine specific - they are 'line' specific.

A set of discs that came with a 2.4GHz white macbook will also work on the black macbook and all other macbooks that were released in early 2008 as part of the same line of macbooks.

HOWEVER... if the machine is running snow leopard, you will be told that you can not install on this computer. You will first need to wipe the drive (to remove the newer OS) - THEN install. You can't install an older OS over a newer OS.

[deckeda]

hal's got it.

Boot from the Leopard disk, Quit the installer or otherwise go to the menubar and run Disk Utility and wipe the hard disk. Now run the installer again and it shouldn't complain about not being able to be installed.

There are also instructions online somewhere how to prep a fresh install so that the next time it's turned on will show that "new machine' setup for the new user. Presumably the temporary user account you were forced to create during install would also be removed?

But do you really want to go through all that, when what the end user REALLY wants is Snow Leopard? If it were me I'd keep 10.6 and bring it up to date. I'd create a new admin account and provide the winning bidder with the login credentials. Delete your old user account plus any apps or other weirdness.

[deckeda]

At any rate it shouldn't be more difficult than what I just went through:

1) Had last PowerBook model (1.67Ghz) running Tiger.
2) Had a "CPU drop in" Leopard DVD. It would look for an existing Tiger install, no problem there.
3) Mac showed an onscreen graphic suggesting batteries be installed in Apple's old Bluetooth mouse.

Apparently it was meant for an iMac or something that came standard with the Apple Bluetooth mouse? There was no driver loading for the PowerBook's keyboard or trackpad. I plugged in an Apple USB mouse and the Mac froze. Next I tried a Griffin PowerMate and it accepted that and proceeded to install, which failed from a "bad disk".

In the end I put the disk in a G4 tower and installed onto the PowerBook running as an FireWire hard disk.

[modelamac]

wurm wrote:
Well, that seems to be the consensus. Thanks.

I guess I'll see if my Snow Leopard Install Discs will work. And I'll either have to hunt down the original Tiger CDs, or not include install discs with the sale. Bummer.

You can also use Disk Utility to create a disk image (.dmg) of Snow Leopard, save it to the Desktop. then eject the SL disk and burn your own DVD of SL. Test the newly burned disk to see that it works and then ship one of them with the MB.