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10.3.5 Setup Assistant Addendum
Authored by: heavyboots on Oct 08, '04 08:48:53PM

So, I was trying to see the dialog box for the new Setup Assistant Migration tool and foolishly reinstalled and reran Setup Assistant on my machine. Naturally, it nuked the .AppleSetupDone file and I couldn't get back on again; kept coming back to the Apple disco installer video.

When I went into single user mode to do the touch /var/db/.AppleSetupDone, I also noticed a new invisible file called .AppleSetupMigrate. I presume this was there to key the Setup Assistant into Migrate mode after creating the first user. In any case, I think the new hint should be:

rm /var/db/.AppleSetupMigrate;
touch /var/db/.AppleSetupDone

It may be possible to jump-start Migration by leaving that there as well as the SetupDone file? Didn't experiment enough to see though.



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