Leopard Clean Install

Hi all,
I am looking to sell my iBook G4 with leopard on it. I would like to do a clean install of leopard. Will this wipe all of the programs like office etc ? and will i need to re-install iLife etc.. ??

I am looking to sell my iBook G4 with leopard on it. I would like to do a clean install of leopard. Will this wipe all of the programs like office etc ? and will i need to re-install iLife etc.. ??
Yes, that's what a "clean" install means--restoring the computer to its factory state.

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This is not meant to be a snide comment, but I use Carbon Copy Cloner and Super Duper not TM. Used TM for a while but got tired of it, changed to CCC and then when Super Duper was updated for Leopard moved back to SD. I like it because (both SD and CCC) can be scheduled for whenever you want to run it and it only backs up files that have changed since last update. It also produces a bootable disk.

Need Help Setting up Hosts File (Leopard Clean Install)

Over the weekend, I did a clean install of a retail copy of Leopard. Yes I wiped my entire hard drive and re-installed. Today at work I need to configure a series of host file entries so my computer can recognize certain computers in my domain by name instead of by IP. I did a quick look for Netinfo Manager in Utilities and found it is not there. Where in Leopard do you go to make the Host file entries.
I know this is a newbie question, but thanks in advance.
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You can go straight to the file and amend
In Finder select Go to Folder and type /etc
With TextEdit or similar you can add additional entries.

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Hi, I just made a clean install of mac os x leopard on an old macbook pro (2004). I just realize that it comes without iLife. How can I get iLife back? I don't have the original grey install dvd's anymore. Thanks.

Your pre-bundled software is reinstalled using the Optional Install package in the same-named folder on your original installer disc. Since you don't have them you have to purchase replacements:
Apple Store Customer Service at 1-800-676-2775 or visit online Help for more information.
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I've just installed (clean install) Leopard on my PBG4 867Mhz. Everything's fine but the booting issue:
When booting or rebooting, i have a grey background with a blue earth button twingling for around 2 mn. Then a MacOS file (two bleu faces) twingled with a dot mark, as if i was searching for a drive/system to boot on. Another 2 mn. Then it boots as usual.
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Open the Startup Disk pane of System Preferences and set your hard disk as the startup disk.
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Confused after Leopard CLEAN install...

So I made a disk image of my Tiger HD and migrated my apps and such to my clean install of Leopard using Migration Assistant. I opened iWeb (v2.0.2) to update my blog only to find out nothing is there. It shows at the bottom my site name (to my personal domain) but nothing else. The option for "Revert to saved" is my best guess, but it is "greyed" out and I am unable to select it. Im not really sure what to do to get all my info back from my iDisk. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Running into the same issue...what did you do to resolve it? I did the clean install, cloned my Tiger OS, backed up my iLife settings, thought I restored them, but still nothing.
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Permission issues after Snow Leopard clean install, Migration Assistant+Time Machine restore.

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I've done a clean install, for various reasons, I've got backups including one done just before the clean install. Following directions somewhere else I set up a user account called "test" just for the purposes of reimporting PART of my old system, since one of the reasons I did the clean install was to clean up my system (get rid of all those little ghosts of old programs, the old programs themselves, files and settings I not longer want etc.) so I didn't want to just import the whole thing. So I imported just the user account and a few folders such as music and photos that I knew I wanted back on. Then I restarted so that it would log back into my old user account that's been restored using Migration assistant. So far so good. I enter time machine and start restoring Applicatons, their associated support files, a few preference panes, some other files and folders I want back on, so and and so forth. Then I enter my old home folder and see that many of the subfolders I don't have access to, I check their permissions with Get Info and see that read/write access has been granted to my test account, which is ridiculous since it didn't exist when they were backed up. Some searching reveals that on the first Time Machine back-up after a restore like this it should as at the start whether I want to inherit he old backups, so I tell Time machine to do a backup, figure that it shouldn't take much, seeing as there's nothing new, and I've put it all in the same place as in the backup. It doen't give me any such prompt, instead just starts indexing/preparing hundreds of thousands of files, and tells me that the backup should take about 135 gb of space. I stop the backup, give up on working this out myself, and come here. Help?
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The "harddrive" (it's a partition, I've got Windows on the other part) is not named the same as it was in the backups, would this affect it?

I'm not familiar with Lightroom.
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Snow leopard clean install stuck (Hard Drive upgrade)

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adamw_music wrote:
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You have a bad sector on the drive, what you need to do is this:
(clean the bottom of the 10.6 disk with a bit of rubbing alcohol and a soft cloth, polish to a shine.)
1: rebooting holding the c key off the 10.6 installer disk
2: select disk utility and partition tab
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4: next click Erase> Security Option> Zero All Data (wait apx 1 hour per 500GB)
If that finishes, then your drive should be fine, if not, it's defective and you need to send it back.
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5: Reinstall 10.6 like you tried, then update to 10.6.8, then install all programs and last return files from backup, in that order for good performance.
read more about cloning etc here
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16276201#16276201

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any help would be great

The file kind is called a 'Saved Search Query', although the format looks to be the same as a .plist - they can also be opened in a text editor or Property List Editor. You can save them pretty much anywhere you want, but there is a 'Saved Searches' folder in the user's Library folder.

Partition HD as part of Leopard clean install?

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Is it possible? To partition my HD during the Leopard install? Or how should I go about this?

Actually, everything is backupped... and I assume that I need some partitions to "resize" partitions? And I only have on ND on 250 gb... I would like to "halve" it..?

Clean install and restore from Time Machine: Will i lose my applications ?

I want to do a Snow Leopard clean install instead of a an upgrade.
1) How do I do the clean install and restore it from Time machine during the install ?
2) If I do the clean install and restore from Leopard's time machine backup, will I retaing all my applications or I will only retain my personal files ?
- If I don't retain my applications, how will my photos in iPhoto be restored without iPhoto ?

If you did a complete TM backup, then all your files, users, settings, and programs will be restored. You will have the opportunity to restore using TM at the end of the install. I would back at least my data up separately.
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How many times can you clean install leopard on the same computer?

How many times can you clean install leopard on the same computer? Will the leopard dvd run out of installations and not let you install anymore?

Hi colman Prez;
Now that the funny comments have been made, I have a serious question and that why are you worry about reinstalling Leopard with an Erase & Install which is what I take that you mean when you say clean install. In actually fact there is no such thing in OS X as a clean install.
I am curious because in all the years I have used OS X, I have yet to do an Erase & Install yet.
I know with Windows that they suggest reformatting and reinstalling at the drop of a hat but that isn't true with OS X.
Allan

How can I do a clean install of Snow Leopard with out losing iLife applications?

I bought my Macbook pro in 2009 and am currently running the Leopard software. I want to do a clean install of Snow Leopard, but I do not want to lose my iLife applications. I lost the DVD's that came with the computer. Is there any way I can do a clean install of Snow Leopard with out losing my iLife applications?
Will a regular installation of Snow Leopard allow the App store to recognize that my computer has iLife and mark it as a purchased item in my account. If it can, then would I be able to do a clean install and re-download the apps for free.
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1. Install Snow Leopard normally; this will keep the applications intact. An actual clean installation involves either erasing the partition or creating a blank one, and neither of those will carry the applications over.
2. The previous iLife installation won't carry over to the Mac App Store, and the Mac App Store versions are incompatible with Snow Leopard.
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Ok, I got is to work by selecting the folder itself and copying it over. Aparently it does work if you open the folder, select all the contents and then paste it. I didn't think it would matter which way you did it.

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