Hi all,

I am a newbie to mac. Recently I just installed OS X on an old IMac.
Unfortunately I forgot the password. Now I want to re-install the operating
system. How can I do that?

Thanks,

DY

Daniel Young wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I am a newbie to mac. Recently I just installed OS X on an old IMac.
>Unfortunately I forgot the password. Now I want to re-install the operating
>system. How can I do that?

You don't need to do a reinstall. Boot from your installation CD by
holding down the 'C' key at powerup and then there'll be a menu item
somewhere in there for re-setting Admin password.


Jim
--
"I'm Jim Hill, and I approved this message."

Thank Jim.

Unfortunately my machine has another problem. Every time when I turned on
the machine, it went to command prompt mode. It displays

"bootr unknown word"

I have to type boot to make it boot to OS X. Do not know which command I
should type to boot from CD, but pressing C key does not work...

DY

"Jim Hill" <jimhill@swcp.com> wrote in message
news:cc5835$4c0$1@iruka.swcp.com...
> Daniel Young wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I am a newbie to mac. Recently I just installed OS X on an old IMac.
> >Unfortunately I forgot the password. Now I want to re-install the
operating
> >system. How can I do that?
>
> You don't need to do a reinstall. Boot from your installation CD by
> holding down the 'C' key at powerup and then there'll be a menu item
> somewhere in there for re-setting Admin password.
>
>
> Jim
> --
> "I'm Jim Hill, and I approved this message."

In article <_DpFc.91365$Ax1.1293187@news20.bellglobal.com>, Daniel
Young <mr_daniel_yang********.com> wrote:

> Thank Jim.
>
> Unfortunately my machine has another problem. Every time when I turned on
> the machine, it went to command prompt mode. It displays
>
> "bootr unknown word"
>
> I have to type boot to make it boot to OS X. Do not know which command I
> should type to boot from CD, but pressing C key does not work...
>

Try resetting the PRAM by holding down the keys P R option and command
until you have heard the startup chimes at least twice. Then you should
be able to boot from the CD by holding the C key down (not just
pressing) until it starts booting from the CD.

Rob.