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iMac G4 wont start, needs new disk

Hello, I'm having trouble starting up my old iMac G4 version is 10.4 Tiger. I know how to format the hard drive but cant find the disk. Is there any thing else I can do? I tried starting up in safe mode. How can I get another disk?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.4), New disk to format and reload drive

Posted on Jun 24, 2013 4:24 PM

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Jun 24, 2013 5:38 PM in response to snowhound07

Hello,


Tiger Requirements...

To use Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, your Macintosh needs:

* A PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor

* Built-in FireWire

* At least 256 MB of RAM (I recommend 1GB minimum)

* DVD drive (DVD-ROM), Combo (CD-RW/DVD-ROM) or SuperDrive (DVD-R) for installation

* At least 3 GB of free disk space; 4 GB if you install the XCode 2 Developer Tools (I recommend 20GB minimum)

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1514


http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=mac+os+x+tiger+retail+10.4

See Tom's, (Texas Mac Man), great info on where/how to find/get Tiger...


https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3089008?answerId=15305521022#15305521022


Leopard requirements/10.5.x...


* Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or PowerPC G4 (867MHz or faster) processor


minimum system requirements


* 512MB of memory (I say 1.5GB for PPC at least, 2-3GB minimum for IntelMacs)

* DVD drive for installation

* 9GB of available disk space (I say 30GB at least)

Classic/OS9 Apps no longer supported.


May be available from Apple again...


https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4720126?tstart=0

Trouble is Apple no longer sells it, ???, check eBay & such for the Retail version, not the Gray Discs...

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=mac+os+x+leopard+retail+10.5


There are workarounds if the 867MHz CPU is the only hangup...


http://sourceforge.net/projects/leopardassist/


http://lowendmac.com/osx/leopard/unsupported.html


Or Ali Brown's great info on where/how to find/get Tiger...


http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10381710#10381710

iMac G4 wont start, needs new disk

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