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Is there a legal way to download old installation discs for free? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A few years ago I bought an old Mac, PowerPC I think, but it doesn't work properly. If I boot normally only one of the two CPU cores works, but both work in safe mode.

I imagine that there are ways to repair it, but as it's second hand, I would probably be better off with a clean installation. I've never owned a Mac before, so although it's outdated, I'd rather get it back to a default state than install Linux, and it also means that once I've finished with it I can pass it on to someone else who would appreciate it.

Is there a way to get the installation media? From what I remember from the last time I tried to get it running, it can use either Snow Leopard or Mountain Lion (10. something?)

Thanks in advance :)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

By the way, I think Mac OS Leopard is the most up to date OS that’ll install and run on the old Power PC Macs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Should be OSX 10.5.8 if anyone is curious. Which can be used all the way back to the 2002 quicksilver G4’s that ran 867 MHz processors. Which is dumb, the dual cpu 800 MHz were limited to 10.4.11 and couldn’t upgrade. But at that point they were quite dated anyways so it doesn’t matter that much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thank you :)

I may have been remembering Mountain Lion because it was the first that didn't work then. I've got limited space to set it up, so I'm trying to get everything ready beforehand, and my memory isn't great :)