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Hi guys and gals im new to macs so please be patient with me.
I have just bought a Powermac G5 1.6 of Ebay to replace my G4 1.25 MMD and its awesome.
The trouble is that when the last owner upgraded to a mac pro they put a fresh instilation of 10.5 on and now have forgotten the password and im left without any disks to put a fresh install on.
I have looked on the net and found the
Boot into single user mode (press Command-S at power on)
Type fsck -fy
Type mount -uw /
Type launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.DirectoryServices.plist
Type dscl . -passwd /Users/username password, replacing username with the targeted user and password with the desired password.
Reboot
methord but I cant get that to work. is there any other way as I dont want to have to spend £100 plus for a fresh copy or 10.5.6
Any help would be much appreciated.
James
I have just bought a Powermac G5 1.6 of Ebay to replace my G4 1.25 MMD and its awesome.
The trouble is that when the last owner upgraded to a mac pro they put a fresh instilation of 10.5 on and now have forgotten the password and im left without any disks to put a fresh install on.
I have looked on the net and found the
Boot into single user mode (press Command-S at power on)
Type fsck -fy
Type mount -uw /
Type launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.DirectoryServices.plist
Type dscl . -passwd /Users/username password, replacing username with the targeted user and password with the desired password.
Reboot
methord but I cant get that to work. is there any other way as I dont want to have to spend £100 plus for a fresh copy or 10.5.6
Any help would be much appreciated.
James