How to do a fresh install of tiger on g4 ibook

Hi everyone,
I am wondering how I can do a fresh install of mac os tiger on my ibook with the cds that came with it. I am selling it and want to make it like its getting turned on for the first time and the person has to register and all that good stuff.
Thanks.

So pretty much all I need to do is just insert the cds and follow the directions?
If you are referring to reinstalling, the answer is yes.
Should i zero my startup disk also or should zeroing the harddrive be enough?
The iBook's current startup disk IS the hard drive. When you boot from the install disc (CD/DVD) you will zero the hard drive in the iBook.

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What is it that people are talking about when they say they receive their mac and then do a fresh install of tiger? Can somebody give me the how's and why's for doing this?
Also, being new to mac, I'm not sure how to check my mac to ensure everything is running smoothly. What are the system checks that one can do through tiger to ensure you didn't receive a dud.
Thanks

All Macs are shipped with a preinstallation of mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). The fresh install is useful for two reasons…
1) It allows you to erase the drive and zero the drive. This gives the software an opportunity to map out bad blocks on your drive, if any, what can cause issue later on. This is more for the slightly paranoid, like myself.
2) It enables an opportunity to do a custom installation which might be desired for reason like space savings etc.
The way to do is rather simple, insert your installation DVD and restart holding down the c key. It will then boot off the DVD and start off the installation process. One trick though is that when you are asked which hard disk to there is an option button at the bottom of the screen which allows you to erase the drive before the installation. You select thing if you want to do a completely new installation.
By the eay, to zero out the drive you need to launch Disk Utility and do it there. You can select it from the menus. You should do this as soon as you can BEFORE you select which disk to do the installtion on.

How to do a fresh install of Yosemite?

Hey,
I know a lot of people have been asking about formatting and fresh install, and there are several articles in the internet related to this matter. Despite all of those articles and instructions, I have not been able to accomplish what I'm trying.
I bought a late 2011 Macbook Pro from my previous employee, so the laptop's full of work related material. Since I don't need any of it anymore, I want everything (and I mean absolutely everything) erased, so that nothing can be recovered.
I have a bootable USB stick with Yosemite in it, but my problem is that I cannot seem to get everything formatted. I managed to format the Recovery HD (don't need it), but I am not able to release that memory (650 MB) for the main HDD (in other words, I can not merge them). So in Disk Utility I have the HDD listed, and below it a blank disk. There's also something called "disk2" with "Mac OS X Base System" below it, which I have not been able to erase despite all the articles that have been trying to explain how it's done. The third item's a grayed out "SuperDrive", which is totally unfamiliar to me. I have no idea what it is.
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Copying Saved Data/Folders to a Fresh Install of Tiger

Hi Gang
My thanx to Kappy and Macjack for providing the file paths and information below.
I'm doing a fresh install in a new HD. Have done this many times. Just making sure about a few things. I'm interested in the following Data/Folders which I will copy from the old drive before I remove it;
/Home/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (copying the whole folder)
/Home /Library/Safari (copying the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Mail (copying the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist
/Home/Library/Application Support/WebFoundation/HTTPCookies.plist
Just wanna make sure; Do I have remove/delete the original folders, then paste these in? Do I paste over the old folders?
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Mike

Hey BD How are you?
Ok well it's getting a wee bit confusing now;
"but if you have anything in your present mail folder, move that folder to the desktop first" Don't know what you mean here, but I'm pretty sure I had handle on this.
Any SAVED folders; Mail, Safari etc., (when put back in the right place), will automatically replace those folders. I understand this. I'll save the folders I mentioned above, before I remove the old drive. Then put them back where they belong in the new formatted drive, (a replacement drive). I'm the same original owner of both drives.
I was also asking about old 'In' Mail, and 'Sent' Mail. Will all this data be returned/saved with the /Home/Library/Mail folder?
"Did you save the Mail.plist from the other one?"
Yes, and others too.
"Did you setup the account on this one yet with the same info?"
No, but I was going to.
Thanx
Mike

How to prepare for FRESH INSTALL?

hi all.
i am about 2 years into my move back to mac with a small professional office and i am considering a fresh install of Lion from Snow Leopard on the Mac Pro (1st generation) and a 2009/10 MacBookPro. I believe the Mac Pro shipped with Leopard and the MacBookPro shipped with Snow Leopard but not sure if i am off by an OS release on that.
in any event, it has been a /ton/ of effort in customizing this setup and it includes an install of Mac Drive, Parallels and other software and software settings. I have also edited the registry on windows in a couple of instances and i have run a couple of Terminal customizations on the mac side.
two questions.
1. what should i do to prepare for a fresh install and how much time might be involved in redoing my setup?
2. is it worth all the effort? i mean, i /do/ have a 2 TB hard drive to take the place of my existing 1 TB drive and I could use the extra space. but at the same time i wonder if a fresh install is necessary.
TIA

If I understand correctly, you are still running SL. As I said, I'm not familiar with this when using any Windows install. If it were strictly Apple, then it wouldn't be a problem. But still if you want to do a full clean install, that would require reinstalling all applications manually. Otherwise, you would still be migrating the same files your already have.
Installing Lion over SL will give you a new OS. Unless you have hard drive issues, this should be all that's needed.
What I would do is check for any PPC applications. If you have any, then uninstall them. Check each application for complete removal instructions.
You might also use an application such as ONYX to caches, etc. Repair permissions. Just to get the system as clean as possible.
Once done, you would want to make a current backup. Maybe even a second just in case. You can always do a restore if nessary.
You could clone your system to an external drive using either SuperDuper or CarbonCopy Cloner. The advantage is that it's bootable. You could then install Lion on either the internal or external drive and make sure it works OK.

Motion 1.0.1 won't open from fresh install on Tiger.

error log
===== Friday, March 3, 2006 10:42:44 AM US/Eastern =====
dyld: Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/PluginManager.framework/Versions/A/PluginManager
Referenced from: /Applications/Motion.app/Contents/MacOS/Motion
Reason: image not found
Mar 3 10:42:48 Video crashdump[288]: Motion crashed
Mar 3 10:42:48 Video crashdump[288]: crash report written to: /Users/Admin/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Motion.crash.log
*********Motion.crash.log*******
Host Name: Video
Date/Time: 2006-03-03 10:42:48.394 -0500
OS Version: 10.4.5 (Build 8H14)
Report Version: 4
Command: Motion
Path: /Applications/Motion.app/Contents/MacOS/Motion
Parent: WindowServer [63]
Version: 1.0.1 (1.0.1)
PID: 287
Thread: Unknown
Link (dyld) error:
Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/PluginManager.framework/Versions/A/PluginManager
Referenced from: /Applications/Motion.app/Contents/MacOS/Motion
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Also may be ineresting to note that motion installed as and "upgrade" even though there was no previous install. Install disk is 1.0 which I upgraded to 1.0.1 through software update.
System was wiped clean and tiger installed fresh. then installed Final Cut Express 2.0.3 succesfully. and also installed Office 2004. Everything else is stock Tiger -upgraded to 10.4.5
Tried removing all files i could find related to motion and reinstalled numerous times. I am stuck....
IMac G5 1.8
512MB RAM
GeForce FX 5200

UPDATE
found that the folder in the error log called "A" was actually named "B" on the system. changed name of folder to "A" and got farther in launching, app intro window appeared, and then program quickly crashed again.....
Host Name: Video
Date/Time: 2006-03-03 13:10:20.351 -0500
OS Version: 10.4.5 (Build 8H14)
Report Version: 4
Command: Motion
Path: /Applications/Motion.app/Contents/MacOS/Motion
Parent: WindowServer [63]
Version: 1.0.1 (1.0.1)
Build Version: 2
Project Name: MolokiniApp
Source Version: 1120000
PID: 335
Thread: 0
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000020
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x909bf118 objc_msgSend + 24
1 Ozone 0x0109350c OZApplication::ScanPlugins(PCString*) + 620
2 Ozone 0x01028160 OZApplication::initialize(PCString*) + 41984
3 com.apple.motion 0x0000d3e8 0x1000 + 50152
4 com.apple.motion 0x0000cf38 0x1000 + 48952
5 dyld 0x8fe01048 dyldstart + 60
Thread 0 crashed with PPC Thread State 64:
srr0: 0x00000000909bf118 srr1: 0x100000000200f030 vrsave: 0x0000000000000000
cr: 0x44000224 xer: 0x0000000000000000 lr: 0x000000000109350c ctr: 0x00000000909bf100
r0: 0x000000000109350c r1: 0x00000000bffffa10 r2: 0x0000000000000000 r3: 0x00000000a09ba88c
r4: 0x00000000909cf02c r5: 0x00000000a28e6e44 r6: 0xffffffffffffffff r7: 0x00000000018632ac
r8: 0x00000000018632ac r9: 0x000000000181b560 r10: 0x00000000909bd648 r11: 0x000000006f62f02c
r12: 0x0000000000000000 r13: 0x0000000000000000 r14: 0x0000000000000000 r15: 0x0000000000000000
r16: 0x00000000456811d8 r17: 0x000000000180dd68 r18: 0x00000000bb00000a r19: 0x000000000180eac0
r20: 0x000000006186b5e4 r21: 0x000000000041e620 r22: 0x000000000185d54c r23: 0x000000000185d550
r24: 0x00000000004551a0 r25: 0x00000000018632ac r26: 0x000000000185d548 r27: 0x000000000185d240
r28: 0x00000000018132ac r29: 0x000000000181b560 r30: 0x000000000045a2b0 r31: 0x00000000010932ac

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Hey everyone,
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Overview
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1) You don't see Apple offering Lion for download from the app store anymore because you already downloaded it to your computer. Hold down the option key then click on purchases and it should appear. I don't know why they hide it after you bought it?
Ref: http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/02/re-download-mac-os-x-lion-from-app-store/
2) Don't install Lion right after you download it from the app store! Make a copy and put it in a different directory first! I use this tutorial to make a bootable usb and a dvd for backup just in case. This will give you the "clean" install you are looking for.
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Tell me how to see the Freshly installed objects

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After fresh installation what are the settings, I try to saw the objects in so many ways but i did not found.
Pls provide solution ASAP.
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Same thing for DS,, goto Table ROOSOURCE.
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I just bought a new Macbook Air for my wife.
It didn't come with any re-install / system software.
If I need to reinstall the OS for some reason (which I do have to do from time to time on my other computers), how do I do this on an Air?
I have Mountain Lion, Leopard, and Snow Leopard installed as a boot device on a Thumb drive.
Could this work on an Air?
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I booted up the computer and it took me through the initial setup process. Everything seemed slow, it took a couple of minutes to get to the setup intro screen. After going through setup, it looked like it was going to go for a normal boot, but it re-entered setup. I went through the process 3 times, and it wouldn't let me choose the same user name twice, so it seems to have created 3 user accounts. But I can't get it to boot to a normal Finder desktop. Safe mode is no-go. I reset the pram, no change. I plan on trying to boot using Linux Mint on an external USB, to see if the hardware is functioning.
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You're not getting many hits here, try reposting at the Tiger site:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/mac_os_x_v10.4_tiger

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coz i have 2 macs

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I had my iMac's internal HD upgraded to 1TB today. The drive is a blank canvas so far. I've installed multiple OS Xs on Macs with factory drives, but never a retail drive. Do I do it the same way? i.e. pop in the disc and go to work?
I plan on reserving 15GB for Windows XP (gotta play Magic Online somehow)

Nick Rooney wrote:
I had my iMac's internal HD upgraded to 1TB today. The drive is a blank canvas so far. I've installed multiple OS Xs on Macs with factory drives, but never a retail drive. Do I do it the same way? i.e. pop in the disc and go to work?
I plan on reserving 15GB for Windows XP (gotta play Magic Online somehow)
Piece of cake
Just insert the DVD and go through the normal process.
When the system reboots, you should be given a selection of drives on which to install Leopard.
Just be sure to select the proper one - the empty one and wait.

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This time the installation went well. At the end it asked to Restart, which I did. It took a long time to boot, stayed on the blue screen for a while, went through the intro animation and to the Welcome screen where it asks to select a country.
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I Upgraded Yosemite on my MBAIR mid 2013 and Al has worked. I did this as an early adopter the moment it appeared on the App Store.
HOwever ver it does seem slow and dropbox has Ben malfunctioning for three months despite copious support. Other things don't seem right either, like there is a an unfriendly ghost in the machine. So I google that a fresh install while not required may be desirable.
I Find that like all things tech mostly it works and sometimes it does not: other threads on here confirm this; extremes of experience good and bad.
I Have these same experiences. Including time machine backups that even a Genius cannot fix. You can imagine my reaction after al the exhortations to backup to/with time machine. Apparently one faulty folder meant the entire backup was lost.
I have too many tears and years of experience really still to use technology.
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SOlution I have "in play" is this and interested to hear guidance from experience:
UsB drive, erased with single write of zeroes, partitioned to journaled mac format. Partition about 650gb for MBAIR has 500gB SSD OEM.
Rstart MBAIR pressing command R , follow process choosing EXTERNAL drive to install Yosemite
and after overnight wait for the disk prep process zeroing, now at the point of having installed and asking for my applied. Do I give it or keep it 100% clean while I check the basic install works...... I elect for no sign in..... I want to know if the USB based system works and can reboot. Restarting... I altered password so I can tell which system I have booted from... 70 seconds to the password box....5 seconds from password to main screen...
SO now what? Install apps? So many. The ones I forget will plague me for days or weeks. Or transfer from time machine like its a new machine?
TTime to post this and see if anyone is around with some experience
AApologies for the typing, my iPad is not behaving ideally...

can't edit the above and my ipad would not allow any responses to the post edit dialogues so to continue with what I hope does not become an epic
my name is anthony, please ignore the handle (old long story - maybe one day I can easily fix it)
my first choice was to load mail.app enter my apple i.d., then system prefs icloud and tick the keychain box. There followed repetitive "certificates do not match - choose trust all, around 30 times over once for each email account (I have many). Also enter system password, note to self next time make system password blank for install process. Doing this now for the rest of the process. Yes I am sure (response to a prompt)
So, email has re-installed all (?) of my email accounts with settings (thanks to icloud methinks) saving a huge amount of time compared to past re-installs (thank you icloud) and downloaded 42,000 messages (nearly all imap so as to sync across devices) - I feel a degree of relief already and do not feel that terrible stress feeling when all I have is a backup and no original working system (which is of course still on the MBA's SSD).
When asked about time machine targets: ignore/cancel so as not to interfere with original MBA backups.
Next (concurrently in fact) install Chrome to get back all my bookmarks (thousands). I occasionally try Safari, but struggle because of my time investment in Chrome and it doesn't integrate, imports are not at all the same thing.)
So let's try a restart and compare the timings. ... this is without any apps being reinstalled (as opposed to browser)...

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