On Monday, October 6, 2003, at 10:56 PM, Tom Peterson wrote:
Good luck. Unless you have enabled root access in netinfo, your admin
password will not work using su- . Go to netinfo in the
volume/applications/utilities. There is a menu item for enabling root
access. It involves putting a password
Tom Peterson wrote:
Good luck. Unless you have enabled root access in netinfo, your admin
password will not work using su- . Go to netinfo in the
volume/applications/utilities. There is a menu item for enabling root
access. It involves putting a password on the root login. Then su- will
become
After days of struggling with OS 10.2.8 v.1, I gave up trying to fix
the mess it was making of my Lombard and did an archive and re-install.
Then I ran the 10.2.6 combo updater and I'm back to a stable state. I
can run apps without the fear of my screen going all psychedelic on me.
But, now I
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From: R. Lawrence Ballew [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 22:19:09 +0800
To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Removing Previous System
, 6 Oct 2003 22:19:09 +0800
To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Removing Previous System Files
After days of struggling with OS 10.2.8 v.1, I gave up trying to fix
the mess it was making of my Lombard and did an archive and
re-install.
Then I ran the 10.2.6 combo updater and I'm back to a stable
R. Lawrence Ballew wrote:
Yes, it should be so simple. But when I move the folder to the trash
I'm told that I can't delete it because it belongs to root. Who is root
and how do I get permission to delete this file?
root is the superuser account, who can do anything they want on a Unix
On Monday, October 6, 2003, at 05:03 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Start Terminal.
at the prompt type 'cd /' (without the ''s)
then type sudo rm -r Previous\ Systems
(or whatever the folder is called, exactly..if you start typing the
name and hit the tab key in the Terminal, it will autocomplete
. :+) and work.
-Original Message-
From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve
Kidd
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 6:17 PM
To: G-Books
Subject: Re: Removing Previous System Files
On Monday, October 6, 2003, at 05:03 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Start Terminal.
at the prompt
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-Original Message-
From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom
Peterson
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 8:57 PM
To: G-Books
Subject: Re: Removing Previous System Files
Good luck. Unless you have enabled root access
