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Hey all, my mom has an old 2006 iMac
2GHz Intel Core Duo
2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Serial QP6280NVU2S
A neighbor or friend or someone wants to set it up as a kind of crude music server (just playing iTunes into speakers) so my mom wants to give it but wants it wiped first. Fine easy peasy
BUT
If I reformat the drive it won't work any more, it will need a fresh OS install. This can only accept OX X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and while I could find a couple bootleg installer images, they did not work. And I cannot find it to download in the App Store (only updaters).
???
Another approach would be to just trash and secure delete all the stuff not related to the OS, however I'm not too confident of not leaving some of her personal stuff behind and/or logged in, or mistakenly erasing OS files.
2GHz Intel Core Duo
2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Serial QP6280NVU2S
A neighbor or friend or someone wants to set it up as a kind of crude music server (just playing iTunes into speakers) so my mom wants to give it but wants it wiped first. Fine easy peasy
BUT
If I reformat the drive it won't work any more, it will need a fresh OS install. This can only accept OX X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and while I could find a couple bootleg installer images, they did not work. And I cannot find it to download in the App Store (only updaters).
???
Another approach would be to just trash and secure delete all the stuff not related to the OS, however I'm not too confident of not leaving some of her personal stuff behind and/or logged in, or mistakenly erasing OS files.