Association of mac device after setup assistant?

I have a new Mac and used my time machine to get the old machine's data to the new one. Setup assistant seems to have added the new machine to the list of managed devices to my account, but it lists it only once, whereas, at this point, both my new and the old Mac is associated to my account. Which is a bit strange. How can I de-associate the old machine without creating problems on the new one? Or should I simply ignore the issue?

What happens when you try and boot to DVD? Does it boot at all? What do you see on startup? Do you get anything at all? What software update did you install? I've had them hang on me before, but powering down with the button did no harm.
Can you get into anything at all? Single user mode? Open Firmware? Not for tinkering, but just to try and work out exactly where the break point is. I've seen a Mac lose a hard drive mid Leopard install, and it produced some interesting results!

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Please help me...!
Yesterday, my friend gave me his old MacBook (Mac OS X Tiger)...
He said that he forgot his password and didn't know how to reset it...
Soon, I do the Setup Assistant with this :
1. holding down Command + S.
2. fsck -yf
mount -uw /
3. Remove current Netinfo Database:
cd /private/var/db/netinfo
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rm ../.AppleSetupDone
5. Don't forget to delete the home folders from every user on the system in /Users!
6. Shut down the mac:
shutdown -h now
But after running the Setup Assistant and after filling all of the important information, The "Welcome" video come again and the mac just run the Setup Assistant again....
I'm so confused with this... so please help me....I need it so Bad...hhe...
(Ehm...sorry for my BAD English..hhehe..)

Hi MemphisBELLE, and a warm welcome to the forums!
You've done about everything you can without The Install Disk, if your friend doesn't have that then call Apple with the Serial# handy, or seek an Apple Store/Provider.

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Francine
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The exact message would be helpful. I doubt this is it:
uknown puplic ato
Let's establish exact machine specs.
Here is how to find out what version of Mac OS you are running:
Click on the blue apple in the upper left hand of the screen.
click on this icon
Click on the first line, "About This Mac"
Most of these are numbers & that's what we want.
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Get the Mac to set up an additional administrative account. You can then change the password on your old account.
Start with your computer power off. Hold down command-s. Power on your computer.
Type in the following:
The first two commands will depend on your release of Mac OS X. Look at what is typed out in the console to determine the exact format.
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# reboot your mac
shutdown -r now
Once you've done that the computer reboots and it's like the first time you used the machine. Your old accounts are all safe. From there you just change all other account passwords in the account preferences!!
Limnos adds detailed explainations:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8441597#8441597
The above the idea came from a post by JoseAranda at September 9, 2006 3:48 AM
http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_do_i_reset_my_mac_os_x_admin_root_password.html
You will need to scroll down to see this post. Search for applesetupdone
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blue apple > System Preferences > Accounts

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Hi there
Subject: Stuck in 'Mac OS X Setup Assistant'
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306998
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Updated mac os x setup manager, and computer reset

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Dear all -
I just rebooted my computer (because an iDisk transfer froze Finder again...) and now all my user data appears to be gone. I can still login, but after that I get the Mac OS X Setup Assistant... After I re-enter all that crap, the login screen pops up again, and I can start all over again, and again, and again...
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