I was recently digging around a bunch of old Mac OS X installers, and thought it would be fun to share Apple’s installation documentation for a bunch of releases.
All of these links are to PDFs. Right-click to download. The entire group can be downloaded as a .zip here.
Rhapsody
- Rhapsody Release 1: Installation Manual
- Rhapsody Release 2 Installation Instructions
- Mac OS X Server 1.0: Install Manual
Developer Previews and Beta
- OS X DP 1: Install Instructions
- OS X DP 2: Install Instructions
- OS X DP 3: Install Instructions
- OS X DP 4: Install Instructions
- Public Beta: Read Before You Install
- Public Beta: Welcome to Mac OS X
Mac OS X Releases
- 10.0: Read Before You Install
- 10.0: Welcome to Mac OS X
- 10.1: Read Before You Install
- 10.1: Welcome to Mac OS X
- 10.2: Read Before You Install
- 10.3: Read Before You Install
- 10.4 PPC: Read Before You Install
- 10.4 PPC: Welcome to Tiger
- 10.4 Intel: Read Before You Install
- 10.4 Intel: Welcome to Tiger
- 10.5: Read Before You Install
- 10.5: Installation & Setup Guide
- 10.5: Welcome to Leopard
- 10.6: Installation Instructions
- 10.6: Welcome to Snow Leopard
OS X Lion was the first version of Mac OS X purchased and downloaded via the Mac App Store. It and all later versions do not include this type of documentation.