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Never used a Mac before.

Discussion in 'The Alternative OS' started by Skutty, Dec 14, 2007.

  1. Skutty Newcomer, in training Posts: 73

    Hey Techspot,
    Someone was giving away a free eMac, it's running OS X and the harddrive is loaded out, but when I try and run the install disc to reformat, it wants the password of the previous owner, which I do not know. Never used a Mac before, so, where do I go from here?
    Skutty, Dec 14, 2007
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  2. vnf4ultra TechSpot Paladin Posts: 2,195

    Try rebooting the machine and holding down "c" on the keyboard with the restore disc in the drive (or I believe you could hold down option, then choose to boot off cd). If that gets you to the installer menu, then you should be able to to a clean install from there. Also, if you can boot from the disc that way, you could reset the password on the machine, as shown here under "Resetting the original administrator account password."

    vnf4ultra, Dec 14, 2007
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  3. Skutty Newcomer, in training Posts: 73

    That did the trick, thanks.
    Only problem now is I don't know what to do with .dmg files.
    Skutty, Dec 15, 2007
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  4. SNGX1275 TS Special Forces Posts: 11,918   +119

    You double click them, and then they 'mount' as a drive. dmg is really just a disk image. Since dmgs usually contain applications, once the dmg is mounted you just drag the program to the Applications directory and then its installed, very simple and elegant. To uninstall you just drag the app to the trash.
    SNGX1275, Dec 15, 2007
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