Mac boots to Darwin and Mac OS X disk 2 is missing file

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Danu

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My mac crashed and rebooted to Darwin.

I am trying to use system discs to recover but my Mac OS X disc 2 doesn't have the file I need- Is there a place to download this disc?

Or how do i get out of darwin to my mac. It is running on the disc boot but not so that I can see my hard drive.

Thanks
 
shutdown
reboot
(either will do)

You can't access the files from disc 2 without using disc 1 first. So if you need to install something from disc 2, start installation from disc 1.
 
Our problem was that our Mac Pro 0S X 10.4 crashed and then booted up in Darwin mode- looking like the old pc dos computers.

SOLUTION that WORKS!

We rebooted with the operating system discs that came with the Mac Pro AND when we heard the sound of the hard drive we held down the "c" key and inserted Disc 1.

It asked us if we wanted to restore and to save our old system configuration and ALL DATA. We selected YES

From there we followed the instructions to Disc 2 and after about 90 minutes, perhaps more, it finished and the MAC was back with all software, date files, email etc. And it was working faster!

This saved us from going to the store and leaving the lap top for testing and probably making the problem worse, rograms would be lost), and if they determined it was hardware, a wait of 6 to 8 weeks. We do have the store protection plan but still this worked for us- no lost data or programs

All working!!!!!!
 
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