Disk Utility of 10.6.2 install disk does not recognise SDD; Disk Utility of El Capitan does I ordered and installed an SSD in my 2010 iMac (10,1). I tried installing El Capitan via USB. This failed and searching the internet I found out that it is best to use the original install disks.

So I booted using the 10.6.2 Mac OS X install CD. However, I cannot install since the SSD does not show up in Disk Utility or the Installer. However, when I go back to the El Capitan installer, the disk does show up. It has one partition, HFS Journaled, GUID. 

What can I do to make the 10.6.2 installer see the SSD?
I solved the issue by installing El Capitan on the USB (via another Mac) and booting from there (a full install, not just a boot disk). The El Capitan booted from the USB did see the SSD, so I could install El Capitan from the USB onto the SSD. 

The core issue was that Apple seems to have added third party SSD support after 10.6, so installing 10.6 was never possible.