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Third time is a charm!
Authored by: cntrytwist on Sep 02, '01 10:57:11PM

I tried installing Mac OSX over the top of my Mac OS 9.2. When I rebooted after the initial install, the setup assistant ran as usual, but after completing the quesitons, I had only generic Icons, and I couldn't run any programs. Something about no associated progvram to run that file. (I had OS X beta on at one point in time and thought that might be posing a problem.)


Tried running the script, it did remove a large amount of items from the hard drive, but upon installing a second time, I found the same problem as before.

This time I ran the script, but I also searched the hard drive for hidden files using Sherlock. I deleted every file listed in the first portion of the script. Upon reinstalling, things worked fine.

Oh, I had to get creative to get my OS 9.2 back as I couldn't even run the startup disk program. I booted to an OS 9.1 CD, chose my startup disk from there, and upon rebooting, things were back to OS 9.2



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