Really disheartening that there are no replies on this. This is an excellent question. They're asking you to download and install the latest server version software to update the OS, but you can't update the OS without the newest server version. It makes mention to download and install OSX 10.10 or 10.11 first, but how can I do that when Apple has cut off the ability to download and install legacy OS?

Support for pre-OS X Mac applications. Unlike the Intel models, a G4 Mac mini running Mac OS X 10.4 can run Mac OS 9 'Classic' applications, as long as a bootable copy of the OS 9 System Folder is installed from which to run the Classic environment. As of Mac OS X 10.5, the ability to run the Classic Environment was removed. Mac® mini or Mac mini with OS X Server Mid 2011 (5,1) through late 2014 (7,1) with Thunderbolt or Thunderbolt 2 ports Not compatible with Mac mini late 2018. OS X® 10.8.5+ macOS Catalina compatible. PCIe Card Compatibility. For up-to-date PCIe card compatibility see our PCIe Card Thunderbolt Compatibility Chart. Technical Notes. Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server allows customers to bring a server into their small business or departmental workgroup. It's a complete solution that comes preloaded with Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server, and it's the easiest way to set up and deploy a server to support Mac and Windows clients as well as iPads and iPhones. While the mini wouldn’t be good for heavy lifting—databases, Java application services, and so on—for things like Web, wikis, blogs, e-mail/groupware, or even running Mac OS X 10.6 Server. The Mac mini server—its full name is the Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server—brings together two separate developments: a substantial price cut for OS X Server and increasingly powerful Mac mini.

Speaking to enterprise support as I write this and their response is we'll need to go from 10.7 to 10.9 then from 10.9 to 10.10 then from 10.10 to 10.12.

The first question they ask is, have you EVER installed 10.9 or have any account with 10.9 in its purchase history since it is no longer available in the Apple store? Since I do not, they're going through their systems to see if they can dig this out anywhere (if they don't, what I'm getting here is that if you use Apple for your server then 'lol' on your part). The easiest way to migrate a server is to upgrade, backup, and restore from backup on the target machine. Can't do that if you can't update. The alternative here is to rebuild your new mac mini from scratch. What could go wrong there?

So, what they basically just told me is that you need to scour for a 10.9 installation from 3rd party sites and pray you find one because Apple doesn't have any way to retrieve a downloader. I was about to demand for a developer, but found an account myself that actually had 10.9. Currently working on the incremental updates, but if you're not so lucky, you just might be SOL. The account I'm using to pull the downloader is very inappropriate to be using in this situation since it's from one client going onto another client machine. They have assured me the client account will NOT be tied into this mac as OS updates/installs don't tie in accounts, only software (if you need to do it this way, make sure you sign out of the app store before installing the update of the server).

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This is a nightmare. Thank you Apple.

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Nov 4, 2016 11:25 AM