I have recently acquired 2 powermac G4 Quicksilvers from a now defunct web design house, but before I got hold of them, the user and master passwords were not disabled, and I can't get into them!
I also acquired a powermac G4 'Graphite' at the same time which had a simple password, so I can get into this.
I have put the HDD from the graphite into one of the quicksilvers so that I can boot it, is there anyway to retreive the passwords from the 80G volume from the quicksilver so that I can boot from it ?
I don't really want to have to reinstall OSX, since I would lose all the apps like photoshop CS and dreamweaver.
Can anyone offer any advice ?
PS, I'm new to using macs, but I can find my way around a Linux command shell, if that helps..
But, I don't want to be seen as some sort of pirate though. I have the hardware only, no OSX or other CDs. I just want be able to use it for my own personal use.
I appreciate that this is perhaps sailing a bit close to the wind, but I am just trying to get this system working.
I have the 1GHz variant, so it would seem that I would be OK. Would I see any performance problems (based on previous versions of osx) with this since I am so close to the minimum spec ?
Till Leopard really comes out no one really knows, but based on going from Jaguar to Panther and Panther to Tiger it was actually faster on older machines as long as you give them the RAM they need. I would say on the Quickslivers give them as much RAM as you can. They take 3 512 Meg PC133 Sticks for 1.5GB. Up the RAM as much as you can and things should be fine.
