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Q: Where can I get OS for Power Mac G4 Graphite?

So I recovered this desktop "from a dumpster lol" but it was stripped of its hard drive "no surprise there" but its like a PC needs an OS but I don't have the installation disc. Everything works just need a digital copy of the OS so I can burn it onto a CD or DVD.

iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 9.2

Posted on Jul 19, 2016 11:27 PM

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Q: Where can I get OS for Power Mac G4 Graphite?

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  • by Ptaxey,

    Ptaxey Ptaxey Jul 19, 2016 11:42 PM in response to Auztinq
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    Jul 19, 2016 11:42 PM in response to Auztinq

    Have a look at this thread: Operating system for Power Mac G4

  • by Allan Jones,

    Allan Jones Allan Jones Jul 20, 2016 7:30 AM in response to Auztinq
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    Jul 20, 2016 7:30 AM in response to Auztinq

    Typically Macs of that era did not like to boot from a burned installer disk. It was like Apple had some copy protection scheme. Your best action is to find retail install disks--not easy or cheap, but the best way to success. That computer should run Tiger as a minimum. A retail install disk looks like this:

    OSX_Tiger_disk.png

    The background is black. The light gray disks that shipped with a different Mc usually will not work. Avoid them.

     

    Apple has never released for free distribution ANY OS version newer that OS 7.5.5 and that went obsolete In January 1997. Therefore any Mac OS version newer than 7.5.5 offered as a download--paid or otherwise--is pirated. The best result people see with these pirated OS version is the computer will not boot and they can't get their money back from some foreign country. The really bad end of the spectrun is the downloaded verison has steaming piles of malware added.

     

    So there is no digital OS option for that model.