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I bought an old iBook G4 on craigslist last week for only $50.
The owner sent it over, nice and clean, but I discovered that the only account available is a limited user account! I can't install apps, use terminal, anything!
Of course the first thing I tried was booting into single user mode and booting into a CD, but none of them worked. Apparently the previous owner of the laptop was a art school and they set an Open Firmware password. I searched around on the 'net and found out that the OF pass should be bypassed by removing RAM, then zapping PRAM 3 times. I removed a DIMM, then booted while holding down Command + Option + P + R. I heard no chime, and when the computer didn't immediately reboot I knew something was wrong.
I really would like to do more than simply browse the web...so if anyone can help, I'd greatly appreciate it.
The operating system is OS X Tiger 10.4.11.
The owner sent it over, nice and clean, but I discovered that the only account available is a limited user account! I can't install apps, use terminal, anything!
Of course the first thing I tried was booting into single user mode and booting into a CD, but none of them worked. Apparently the previous owner of the laptop was a art school and they set an Open Firmware password. I searched around on the 'net and found out that the OF pass should be bypassed by removing RAM, then zapping PRAM 3 times. I removed a DIMM, then booted while holding down Command + Option + P + R. I heard no chime, and when the computer didn't immediately reboot I knew something was wrong.
I really would like to do more than simply browse the web...so if anyone can help, I'd greatly appreciate it.
The operating system is OS X Tiger 10.4.11.
