Power Mac G4 (Mirrored Drive Doors 2003) Install & Restore Discs

1st download is Power_Mac_Software.toast.zip which contains Mac OS X
10.3.2 and Mac OS 9.2.2. Apple Hardware Test 2.0.2 for Power Mac is
included. To boot to Apple Hardware Test on a Power Mac G4 (Mirrored
Drive Doors 2003), hold down 'Option' at startup to access the boot
manager.

2nd download is Restore_DVD.toast.zip. The disc primarily contains
GarageBand and iDVD restores for OS X. Mount this volume and look in
/Volumes/Restore DVD/.images and those are the only two files of
substance present on the disc. On the root level of the disc, there is
Apple documentation how to perform a full software restore on a Power
Mac G4 (Mirrored Drive Doors 2003).

If folks are only looking for the special Mac OS 9.2.2 build that can
boot up on a Power Mac G4 (Mirrored Drive Doors 2003, a "formal"
install of OS X and restore is not necessary.

On the first disc, there is a hidden .images folder at the root level
of the disc. The OS9General.dmg (contained in that folder) contains OS
9.2.2 files and apps for that model. You can pull a copy of the DMG
out of that folder, open it in OS X and copy the OS 9.2.2 files/apps
to whichever volume you like. You could probably also use Disk Copy
6.5b13 to open this DMG in OS 9.2.2 itself (unsure of that).

Third Download is OS9General.dmg is Mac OS 9.2.2 from
Power_mac_Software.Toast.zip
I can confirm this OS9General.dmg will not open in Mac OS 9.2.2. I
tried Disk copy to open in Mac OS 9.2.2. It said error -50. When I
tried the open the file with Virtual DVD-ROM/CD Utility to open the
file. It said system resources in Virtual DVD-ROM/CD Utility and
failed to open. Then I tried Roxio Toast Titanium 5.2.3 and it failed
to open. Use Disk Utility to burn this to DVD or Burn it to Toast to
DVD.

For the really geeky in this group, what makes this build of OS 9.2.2
special is that it contains within it CPU Software 5.9 which is the
last-known version of Mac OS CPU Software. Mac OS CPU Software along
with an updated copy of Drive Setup was what Apple used to allow these
machines from 2003 to boot OS 9.2.2 long after OS 9.2.2 was originally
released in December of 2001.

Fourth Download is Restore CD.toast.zip is All documents for Restore
CD for Power mac G4 mirror door 2003. And Mount this volume and look
in /Volumes/Restore CD/.images is one item is Dev Tools.dmg

Fifth download to 9th download

Power_Mac_Software.toast.zip which contains Mac OS X 10.3 and Mac OS
9.2.2. Apple Hardware Test 2.0.2 for Power Mac is included**. To boot
to Apple Hardware Test on a Power Mac G4 (Mirrored Drive Doors 2003),
hold down 'Option' at startup to access the boot manager.

10th Download : The International English version of OS9General.dmg.
CPU Software Z-5.8, with ROM 10.2.1. Copied from Z691-4681-A (the
10.3.0 disc)

11th Download : The International English 10.3.0 disc itself
(Z691-4681-A). Unfortunately, only disc 1 of 2 is available

12th Download: The German 10.3.0 disc (D691-4681-A). The German
version only has this one disc. The included OS 9.2.2 Image only has
"CPU Software 5.8" in it, but still works perfectly on my MDD 2003.

**Here are those small downloadable extractions of AHT for the
MirrorDoors:
<http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/apple-hardware-test-powermac-g4>

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