On 10/13/10 2:02 AM, a1 wrote:
I acquired G4 imac with Panther already installed. I have Panther
disks and wish to reinstall with a clean installation. However, the
password on this admin acct on this machine is lost---and the imac
isnt even letting me boot from cd. I made myself another user acct--in
Jaguar one can allocate admin permissions but somehow this mac didnt
allow for that---only "standard" acct. So now I am even locked out of
the admin user acct.
How can I boot from cd and install fresh over the previous admin acct?
I really do not wish to dig in there and extract the HD.
Are you sure the panther disk is a cd? And are you sure the optical
drive is a cdrom drive? If the disk is a DVD and drive is Cdrom, then
you have a problem that can be overcome.
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