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#Life 09 work with macbook g4 mac os x#
#Life 09 work with macbook g4 install#

This install, same user account / password does have admin rights.

#Life 09 work with macbook g4 install#

Obviously at this point there is nothing to install onto, but it proves that both the DVD player, and the DVD do work.īy physically unplugging and removing only one hard drive, I have discovered there's an entire 2nd install sitting there. Constantly ejecting OS X install disc when trying to bootīy physically unplugging and removing the hard drives, the computer is forced to boot from the installer DVD.MacBook Pro won't boot into safe mode or from DVD.I have tried all of the solutions found at these questions:. Is there anything I haven't tried, in order to regain control of this Apple hardware? But that seems a bit drastic, and is permanent if it doesn't work. The only thing I haven't tried (I think) is to use an old Ubuntu CD (Disk Utility asks for admin account) to wipe the drives and see if we can force a boot from the install DVD that way.

(Which means the keyboard works, I guess!) Only holding down 'shift' prevents iTunes auto-running after login. The DVD is ejected during this boot sequence. The attempts to boot with the various keys depressed appears to have no effect whatsoever. There appears to be no admin account of any kind. There appears to be only 1 account - the standard account I am logging in with.

Making various changes via 'System Preferences' (asks for admin account).

'su' and 'sudo' from a command-line terminal (user is not in the sudoer's list).

Booting into single-user mode (Cmd + 'S').

Booting into Startup Manager (Option key).

I have the username / password for a standard account, and can log in using this. I'm trying to reinstall from scratch, including erasing all the existing data.

#Life 09 work with macbook g4 mac os x#

DVD: Mac OS X Leopard Install DVD Version 10.5.

I have inherited an old Mac OS X 10.5.8 + original install DVD.