How do I get the Power Mac Quicksilver 867mhz software?

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How do I get the Power Mac Quicksilver 867mhz software?

I got the computer at a university surplus sale with no hard drive. It seems to power on fine but of course has no OS. I put a hard drive in it and tried to load OS 10.3.5 from gray discs that came with an Ibook G4 but it said "bundled software cannot be installed on this computer." The unit originally shipped with some version of OS 9xx. What OS software will load on this machine to get it going?

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Posted on Feb 25, 2015 2:54 PM

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Niel

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Feb 25, 2015 2:56 PM in response to davidh10

The computer's original disks or a retail Mac OS X 10.1 through 10.5.6 package.

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Feb 25, 2015 3:09 PM in response to Niel

The university did not supply the original disks at the auction. They sold about a dozen 27" IMACs in addition to a bunch of the Power Mac Quicksilvers (all hard drives removed), so I assume those buyers are in the same boat as me. Can the retail version be identified by the label color? Mine are gray.

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Niel

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Feb 25, 2015 3:12 PM in response to davidh10

None of the retail disks will be gray.

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davidh10 Author

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Feb 25, 2015 3:22 PM in response to Niel

Ok thanks, I should be able to find something online maybe on Ebay or elsewhere. I don't know much about Apple computers at all and am trying to learn. Fortunately, the Ibook G4 1.2 that I recently purchased for $30 came up and running.

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