[SOLVED] Need to find 10.2

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Hey All

My buddy has hauled his 2002 power mac g4 to my house to try to get it working for him.

It spins for about an hour before getting to log in, but it blue screens after that...

Command r,d etc doesn't work, nor does any of the single user fixes...

I'm pretty sure his os is corrupt, so break out the boot disks right?

Problem is he cant find his os x 10.2.6 disks....

I cannot find anywhere to d/l a .dmg file of this os. 10.4 and up. no worries, but Jaguar is impossible to find... Just like the real animal... Can anyone help....

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You'll have to buy a disc off eBay. Apple hasn't made those versions available for DL. If you buy off eBay. Make sure it is a retail disc (white with Jaguar X). If it is a grey restore disc. That grey disc must be for a Power Mac G4 (ie an iBook, iMac, &c disc won't work).

Also I don't know which G4 your friend has. If it is the (FW800) the minimum Mac OS X is 10.2.3 so regular 10.2 won't work. As far as I can tell any of the other models (MDD and earlier) will work with regular 10.2.
 
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Thanks for the reply. It is mirrored drive doors model. M8570.

The price of a power mac g4 is less than $100, sometimes less than $50
The disks you suggest purchasing and around $50... The price you might pay for a working G4.....
The first thing I did was look to buy replacements. At the same price as the ENTIRE MACHINE, that is obviously only an option for a fan boy with more dollars than sense.
I'm 98% certain his machine stopped working because of os corruption... The machine wasn't physically damaged, connected to the internet and no new software had been loaded into it since new

I'm always been a pc guy, so my apple exp. is low....but that someone should have to pay to re-install his OWN operating system..... What the ???? is up with that?

Surely there must be a free download solution to making this disk on my windows machine... If I can't get the restore disks, I pull the drive and plug it into another mac, get the photos etc and put 10.4 on it. That os and up are available easily. For free. As derelict obsolete unsupported software should be.



 
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Slow Startup: In my experience with Macs. This is almost always a failed or dying hard drive. If the Mac has multiple hard drives. It could be any one of them. Any connected hard drive which has died or is dying will cause the OS to come to a crawl. Have you tried running Disk Utility to

OS Cost: Can't do anything about that. Apple did originally provide discs.

I do agree that they should be available for free download. Newer versions of OS X are free. It just makes sense. Apple doesn't officially provide that. Forum rules only allow helping find legitimate copies of software.

If you have 10.4. Then run 10.4. It'll run a more recent web browser anyway. At the very least you can boot off the 10.4 disc. Then run Disk Utility. To perform disk repair routines not available to the OS partition when booted normally.

Have you tried the forums of Macrumors.com. There are many enthusiasts of PowerPC, Classic Macs and Vintage Apple on those forums. Someone there might help better. Toms isn't the best place for help with anything Apple especially old stuff. They have a marketplace to buy and sell old Apple hardware and software but that is only available to members who meet post count and membership length requirements. Many more people will probably chime in with diagnostic suggestions.

https://forums.macrumors.com/forums/powerpc-macs.145/

You don't even have to run OS X. Your friend can run Lubuntu 16.04 for PowerPC. With Arctic Fox and Coreplayer an old PowerMac can cruise the internet and watch Youtube..
 
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Thank you for spelling that out for me... I understand now. I did try a couple of apple forums, but got no luck.... I will definitely try macrumors for one more shot at the disk restore option... It's interesting you thought it might be hard drive... I guess the next diagnostic option is to remove the drive, plug it into another mac and see what happens, confirm if your right... Cheers for the Lubuntu tip too... he will probably like the idea of that... Working on this machine, I found it is very loud when it is running though.... If it was mine, I would want to gut it and put a sleeper build in there... the case is one of the coolest I've seen....
 
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