Mac OS X for PPC (Mac OS 10)

The Tiger disks are great--burned and booted just fine.

The Panther ones though--not recognized by any of my 11 PPC machines on Option boot and cannot be set as a startup disk. Disc 1 in particular, as 2 and 3 are dependent on Disc 1. I have burned it in both Intel and PPC machines, and no difference.

Tiger update zip works fine now...... NICE Thanks

sfp1954 : "The original file decompresses correctly - but once uploaded and downloaded it fails to decompress."

Learn to use cksum, a Unix (well, POSIX anyway) standard. I checksum everything I upload (clickkmi example).

Why are you using WinRAR when OSX has built in zip compression/decompression?

Not sure what's happening. The original file decompresses correctly - but once uploaded and downloaded it fails to decompress.

Try it now.

It appears Apple Software Update no longer works with Panther.
So I have added a disk with (hopefully) all the Jaguar and Panther Updates.
See the last image for a listing of the disk contents.

If you guys continue like this we will have a warez Problem!

A wonderful collection. I know Apple would be upset, but Leopard runs on PPC as well (G4/G5). I wonder if we could strip all the Intel code out of an install DVD and post a link here?

Just wondering

I'd love it if someone added the original 10.0, build 4K78

I have added the Mac OS X 10.3.8 Combo update from the Apple Website (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL507) since for some applications like, for instance, InDesign CS 2 the highest officially supported Panther version is 10.3.8 and not 10.3.9.

You can boot from an external CD/DVD as long as it is a Firewire interface - although you may need to manually select it from the startup disk control panel.
You can also replace the bare drive in your internal tray with any Apple Atapi DVD drive.
That includes any Matshita out of a late G4 Titanium or G4 Aluminum.
Pioneer slot loads also work well - or one of these:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/181310155295

@xy: Not to offer a solution, but to confirm what sfp1954 has said re: the Tiger 10.4 disk. It boots up my iBook G4 OK.

I also extracted the .zip with Mac OS X's built-in zip tool. I did lock the image upon extraction & before burning tho', if that helps. I used Toast vers. 5.2.3 for burning, using the setting "Disk Image" under right-most "Other" tab and dragged the .toast file into Toast's window prior to burning, as per sfp1954's suggested method.

[Edit] As an experiment, I also extracted the .toast image on an Windows box (omitting the hidden "_MACOSX" part in the .zip), renamed the filename suffix ".toast" to ".iso", then burned the .iso to CD using ImgBurn on Windows - This also resulted in a bootable CD.

So if you haven't got a running Mac OS X and need a bootable CD for a G5/G4/G3, then you can also use Windows to burn this image if you happen to have a Windows PC handy.

I have tested the Tiger CD 1 on a Prismo; the CD does not boot. The Prismo CD tray has difficulties to even show the contents of the burned CD, not too mention booting the CD. The toast Image of the ZIP Archive is not locked so that I do not know if the image is untouched. The problem might be the old Prismo tray or a touched image. The tray boots without problems my burned Mac OS 9 and Jaguar CDs. I even tried a reserve tray - with the same result.

Two things: It's cool to have the tiger CD version, i keep losing those CDs i don't know why.
Second: Tiger certainly is out of the support cycle by Apple, however it is still supported via Software Update, and updates fine PPC and intel versions. I don't know if having Tiger available here will trigger some problem in the near future.

Panther reached 10.3.9 so having 10.3.7 here will not get you to the "latest" panther version. All panther and earlier OSX patches and updates are still available at Apple, you just have to search for them.

Just for the curious, on July 23, 2012 Apple stopped providing automatic updates via Software Update for Panther an earlier versions. Panther server didn't have the Software Update service, and Tiger server only provided tiger updates (so no way to update panther or earlier automatically). If you were lucky enough to update your mac before the cancellation of the automatic updates, you have the list of the needed security and feature updates for your OS in the system preferences/software update panel. It is extremely convenient to search each update at apple and download the files and have them available somewhere, so you can apply them every time you install these old OSX versions. Jaguar is around 28 update files and panther is about 23 files. I never cared for 10.1.or 10.0 because they feel too much (to me) as a proof of concept and unusable for something productive.

I have no idea if Apple is planning in the near future cancellation of automatic updates for tiger or even leopard. Best thing to do now that all the updates are still available is to put a Snow Leopard server and enable the software update service. Snow Leopard has the ability to get all the patches from Tiger to Lion. If Apple stops serving them you can always point your mac to your server and get the updates from there.

Leopard is also missing because it is only available on DVD and requires a Dual Layer DVD+R (8GB) to burn. Even as a compressed image it far exceeds the supposed 1GB file limit on uploads.

Leopard is probably missing because it's Intel and PPC. Retail Tiger was only PPC.

Nice one, all in one bag. Thanks!