I just discovered Macintosh Garden. We have several older iMacs that we love. I need a replacement install disc for OS 10.3.9 and am unable to find it anywhere. I've checked with Apple and resellers, and no one I have contacted has one. Does anyone here have one that they could upload? I'm thinking that if I can download it and burn it to CD on my new iMac, then I can use it to get my G3 up and running again. I changed the startup disc to Classic, and now it won't boot. I can't get back in to change the startup disc back to OS X, so I'm stuck unless I can replace the install disc. If anyone can help me I would be very grateful. Thank you. Alternately, it might work if I had a classic OS 9 install disc. I found one on this site, but it stopped at OS 8.1. Thanks.
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2011, June 30 - 5:15pm
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OS 10.3.9 Install disc
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2011, June 30 - 6:52pm
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When you turn on to boot, hold down X, to force it to boot of the version of OS X in the primary disk partition (on the primary Master disk - in the case of an iMac G3, the only disk).
Or hold down Option/Alt when you boot to bring up the startup manager, which will let you choose which OS to boot - but I have a feeling that this may only be present on OSX 10.2 or later.
Or give us more details on the iMac G3, shape, speed, colour, RAM, disk, video, etc. Someone here may have original discs for the same model, I don't think OSX 10.1.5 is the original OS X for your iMac, the iMac G4's first came with OS X 10.1.4 - I had one.