[cowboybop]

Greetings,

To begin with, I searched the board for answers to these questions, and could not find them, so I am hoping someone here can help.

I did an upgrade install of Panther this weekend, and am having a few problems:

1.My "apple" in the menu no longer displays the shortcut keys for "force quit" as "option-whatever-esc". Rather, the option is now three new keystrokes, the command one being the only one that is even on my keyboard. Has the forcequit command changed, or is something messed up on mine?

2. My "Update Software" command will not see that I am connected to the internet, and will not allow me to connect to the update server. Any suggestions?

3. I want to delete OS 9 from my computer, as I have no need for it and would like the extra space. However, I cannot delete the System Folder for OS 9. It says cannot delete it because some of the files are needed. Is this truly the case, or will I have to delete it via Terminal?

Help to all or any of these questions would be greatly appreciated.

New Mac User, Not Going Back

[CatOne]

Originally posted by cowboybop:
Greetings,

To begin with, I searched the board for answers to these questions, and could not find them, so I am hoping someone here can help.

I did an upgrade install of Panther this weekend, and am having a few problems:

1.My "apple" in the menu no longer displays the shortcut keys for "force quit" as "option-whatever-esc". Rather, the option is now three new keystrokes, the command one being the only one that is even on my keyboard. Has the forcequit command changed, or is something messed up on mine?

2. My "Update Software" command will not see that I am connected to the internet, and will not allow me to connect to the update server. Any suggestions?

3. I want to delete OS 9 from my computer, as I have no need for it and would like the extra space. However, I cannot delete the System Folder for OS 9. It says cannot delete it because some of the files are needed. Is this truly the case, or will I have to delete it via Terminal?

Help to all or any of these questions would be greatly appreciated.

New Mac User, Not Going Back

1) Force quit is still command-option-escape. I guess that watch looking thing means "escape." The funny line thing means "option."

2) Your other networking functions work fine? If so, then perhaps you have a proxy server you're using? Are you on home DSL or some other network? Because I believe software update uses some other port, and if it's closed you may have issues.

3) You're having problems deleting the OS 9 system folder because OS X has found some fonts in there and has loaded them. You will need to remove the folder from the terminal. Before you do this, MAKE A BACKUP. Period. I made a typo once (ONCE) and destroyed my system. Completely. Fortunately I was setting up the machine at the time, so I only lost about an hour's work -- no data was lost.

Anyway, from a terminal, do sudo rm -rf "System Folder" enter your password, and it'll be gone.

I would recommend you use tab completion to do it, because if for some reason it ends up picking "system" instead of "system folder" you can kiss your a** goodbye

[cowboybop]

Thank you CatOne. I'll cautiously give it a go. It is nice, quick responses like yours that make me proud to be a member of the mac community.

Thanks Again