10.2 Install Disk 1

[Mars478]

So I was working on a client's Mac Mini, and I found a 10.2 Disk 1 in the CD Drive. I shot an email to the owner and he said that he had no use for that and that I could keep it.

It is only disk 1, but it works for a base 10.2 Install.

I used this disk to give an OS to my Blueberry Clamshell!

It works like a charm and I am fully updated to 10.2.8!

Not much of a conquest, but it is useful, as it is the last OS that the beige G3s could officially run.

Thanks for reading I'll post some pictures to flickr.

 

[porter]

Now get XCode and X11...

 

[MrMacPlus]

Now get XCode and X11...

I see what you did there...

Actually, Apple still provides the 10.2 dev tools IIRC. For X there's always XDarwin or whatever it is.

 

[porter]

Get them while you can. I can't abide having a computer that I can't write my own programs on.

I managed to find Apple's X11 on X for Jaguar. It took a bit of searching mind you.

 

[Mars478]

Yeah i'll try to find the other disks. They will probably start obsoleting those programs.

 

[Cory5412]

A lot of the stuff for 10.2 will probably be on their website for years to come. You can still update 9.x through the System Update utility, and there are all sorts of 7/8 era downloads on their site still.

Anyway, great job on the 10.2 disk. It's useful when you have older Macs that can run it, and really, the stuff on disk 2 is X11, ancient itunes and extra languages.

 

[Mars478]

Yeah they still have 9.2.2 on their servers! I updated my Graphite clamshell to 9.2.2. Oooo I was wondering where iTunes was!

 

[MrMacPlus]

I believe that 10.2.8 can run up to iTunes 6. http://mac.oldapps.com/

 

[equill]

Yeah they still have 9.2.2 on their servers! I updated my Graphite clamshell to 9.2.2.

Not all 9.2.2s are equal ... but there is a note here about squeezing more into (or out of) 9.2.2.

For example, an installation of OS X 10.2.8 accompanied by an installation of OS 9.2.2 with the magic additives quite happily 'sees' HDDs of 128GB+ under OS 9.

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[Mars478]

Wow interesting!

I have heard things about 10.2.8 being bad. And also 10.2.7, what happened to it?

On my graphite clamshell I used a 9.1 disk and then updated to 9.2.2, I then wiped the HD and installed Tiger and used System disk 2 from my iBook G4 to install 9.2.2, but sadly this install in Disk 2 G4 is very stripped down and missing a LOT of stuff.

Luckily i have come across a 9.0 Disk and I'll probably wipe 9.2.2 Partition and use this 9.0 disk and update from there.

:beige:

 

[coius]

Wow interesting! I have heard things about 10.2.8 being bad. And also 10.2.7, what happened to it?

On my graphite clamshell I used a 9.1 disk and then updated to 9.2.2, I then wiped the HD and installed Tiger and used System disk 2 from my iBook G4 to install 9.2.2, but sadly this install in Disk 2 G4 is very stripped down and missing a LOT of stuff.

Luckily i have come across a 9.0 Disk and I'll probably wipe 9.2.2 Partition and use this 9.0 disk and update from there.

:beige:

If I recall correctly, 10.2.7 was ONLY for the G5 PowerMacs. It was when the G5 was released, so they made 10.2.7 the exception for public release for other machines. So if you had a G5, it would have shown up, but since it was G5 only, you won't see it in the updates.

 

[Mars478]

I've read that it was pulled due to bugs.

 

[LCGuy]

If I recall correctly, 10.2.7 was ONLY for the G5 PowerMacs. It was when the G5 was released, so they made 10.2.7 the exception for public release for other machines. So if you had a G5, it would have shown up, but since it was G5 only, you won't see it in the updates.

Actually it was never made as a software update for the G5s - it shipped with the G5s, it had to, as no prior OS had support for either the G5 chip or the new hardware in the G5s. No G5 ever shipped with or ran 10.2.6, or any OS prior, hence the reason for 10.2.7 existing in the first place.