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On my new iBook...a few questions
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<blockquote data-quote="dadsgravy" data-source="post: 674094" data-attributes="member: 19086"><p>Its up to you if you want to do a clean install of 10.5. Do you have the 10.5 disc? If you do, I'd say wait and see if you can get the original install discs that came with the ibook. If any thing goes wrong while re-installing 10.5, your sunk without the original discs. </p><p></p><p>Changing the user name in leopard should be pretty easy. Just go into system preferences>accounts and then change the name. </p><p></p><p>Changing the short name (the one you see in finder) Is still a little tricky. </p><p>Haven't changed mine and I don't mess with it. I searched apple's site and it looks like it isn't easy to change it in leopard either. I could be wrong, and of someone knows an easy way, please speak up. </p><p></p><p>The best I could find was creating a new account for your self with admin privileges and then deleting the other user. When you do this, it may ask for the admin password. If it asks, and you don't have the admin password, you'll need to do this step:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/11627.html" target="_blank">http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/11627.html</a></p><p></p><p>And if you don't have the 10.5 disc, forget that I bothered you and enjoy your mac!</p><p></p><p>And if you fill compelled to call apple, you'll just tell them that you bought a used ibook and you need to purchase replacement install discs for your it. Haven't worked tech support in about a year, but they sold the discs when I left.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dadsgravy, post: 674094, member: 19086"] Its up to you if you want to do a clean install of 10.5. Do you have the 10.5 disc? If you do, I'd say wait and see if you can get the original install discs that came with the ibook. If any thing goes wrong while re-installing 10.5, your sunk without the original discs. Changing the user name in leopard should be pretty easy. Just go into system preferences>accounts and then change the name. Changing the short name (the one you see in finder) Is still a little tricky. Haven't changed mine and I don't mess with it. I searched apple's site and it looks like it isn't easy to change it in leopard either. I could be wrong, and of someone knows an easy way, please speak up. The best I could find was creating a new account for your self with admin privileges and then deleting the other user. When you do this, it may ask for the admin password. If it asks, and you don't have the admin password, you'll need to do this step: [url]http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/11627.html[/url] And if you don't have the 10.5 disc, forget that I bothered you and enjoy your mac! And if you fill compelled to call apple, you'll just tell them that you bought a used ibook and you need to purchase replacement install discs for your it. Haven't worked tech support in about a year, but they sold the discs when I left. [/QUOTE]
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