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10.4: Run the Terminal from the Install DVD
This feature saved me the other day. I lost power while applying the 10.4.1 update, and my system would no longer boot. But I was able to re-install the updater using the terminal on the install cd and it fixed my problems without having to do a complete re-install.
10.4: Run the Terminal from the Install DVD
How Did it save you? What commands did you use to get you out of that Pickle. I have a few macs I upgraded and on one of them, the same thing happened. I had to perform a clean install and lost my data!!! For future references, let me know how you saved your data with Terminal? Thanks.
10.4: Run the Terminal from the Install DVD
I had to perform a clean install and lost my data!!! For future references, let me know how you saved your data with Terminal? If you have more then one Mac there are easier ways to save your data. Hook the "dead" Mac up to one of the live ones with a firewire cable, reboot the "dead" one while holding down the T key (or maybe Option-T, I forget exactly which). After not too long the "dead" one will display the firewire symbol on it's screen, and the not-dead Mac will mount it's disks so you can get at them in the Finder. Then you can just drag the stuff you want out. Or maybe even poke around and find some way to fix the dead one. If you don't have other Macs you can do something kind of like it from the terminal. Boot the install disk and start terminal, if you have an external firewire disk you can plug it in and mount it (you may have to use hdid or hidutil to do that). If you don't have an external disk, you could try using drutil do burn CDs or DVDs. Or you can try to mess around with ifconfig to get it onto the network and then scp things off to safety. |
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