Comments on: How to get the Out-Of-Box experience on OS X 10.5.x Leopard http://jamesce.com/2008/11/advanced-how-to-get-the-out-of-box-experience/ cat scratch fever! Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:35:45 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mr_Kitty http://jamesce.com/2008/11/advanced-how-to-get-the-out-of-box-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Mr_Kitty Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:35:45 +0000 http://jamesce.com/2008/11/11/#comment-9 @JohnO - Thanks for replying. I thought I'd edited this to reflect that it was Snow Leopard compatible as well, I guess not. But yes, I've used this method several times on Snow Leopard of the last month. Works exactly the same. As far as the full paths, these *shouldn't* be necessary. Unless the root account's BASH profile has been tampered with/corrupted, it should be able to find all the commands in /sbin without a problem. IF the BASH profile has been affected, you'd probably want to know that before you hand off the machine to another user (if you did it intentionally, you should know that you'd need to prepend the /sbin/). In regards to the disk check (fsck)... this article is directed at prepping a machine for first run state, not repair of the disk. Myself, I always run disk utility and diskwarrior on the system after I've finished installing all the updates and third-party software, but these are all really outside of the scope I intended. @JohnO – Thanks for replying.

I thought I’d edited this to reflect that it was Snow Leopard compatible as well, I guess not. But yes, I’ve used this method several times on Snow Leopard of the last month. Works exactly the same.

As far as the full paths, these *shouldn’t* be necessary. Unless the root account’s BASH profile has been tampered with/corrupted, it should be able to find all the commands in /sbin without a problem. IF the BASH profile has been affected, you’d probably want to know that before you hand off the machine to another user (if you did it intentionally, you should know that you’d need to prepend the /sbin/).

In regards to the disk check (fsck)… this article is directed at prepping a machine for first run state, not repair of the disk. Myself, I always run disk utility and diskwarrior on the system after I’ve finished installing all the updates and third-party software, but these are all really outside of the scope I intended.

]]> By: JohnO http://jamesce.com/2008/11/advanced-how-to-get-the-out-of-box-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-8 JohnO Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:27:26 +0000 http://jamesce.com/2008/11/11/#comment-8 Two things: 1) This also works fine in 10.6 Snow Leopard 2) Looking at the single user boot prompt in 10.5 and 10.6 you might want to revise your step two to include both the full path to the executables, and do the disk check: /sbin/fsck -fy /sbin/mount -uw / Again, thanks for posting this information! John Two things:

1) This also works fine in 10.6 Snow Leopard

2) Looking at the single user boot prompt in 10.5 and 10.6 you might want to revise your step two to include both the full path to the executables, and do the disk check:

/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /

Again, thanks for posting this information!

John

]]> By: JohnO http://jamesce.com/2008/11/advanced-how-to-get-the-out-of-box-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-7 JohnO Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:00:51 +0000 http://jamesce.com/2008/11/11/#comment-7 Excellent post. Thanks for taking the time to document it so clearly. Excellent post. Thanks for taking the time to document it so clearly.

]]> By: William http://jamesce.com/2008/11/advanced-how-to-get-the-out-of-box-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-6 William Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:28:20 +0000 http://jamesce.com/2008/11/11/#comment-6 Thank you! I appreciate the clear, step-by-step instructions, and the explanation of what each step does. I've seen several articles about resetting a Mac to the out-of-box experience, but many of them conflicted with each other, especially over the Netinfo/DirectoryServices step. Your steps worked great. Thank you! I appreciate the clear, step-by-step instructions, and the explanation of what each step does. I’ve seen several articles about resetting a Mac to the out-of-box experience, but many of them conflicted with each other, especially over the Netinfo/DirectoryServices step. Your steps worked great.

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