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OSX 10.3 Panther Problem
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Join Date: Feb 2004
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I have OSX 10.3.2 and it won't start up anymore.
When I turn my mac on, booting from OSX, all I get is a black screen with this message:
/etc/master.password:Not a directory
/etc/master.password:Not a directory
-sh: /etc/profile: Not a directory
-SH-2.05b#
After that message I can input commands from the keyboard burt I have no idea what I need to type to make it work.
That message makes no sense to me and don't know how to make it go away. I have booted from my OSX disc and used both the disc repair and the other repair on the disc, both say there is no problem with the disc.
What I did to make this message appear was run Norton Utilities 6 in OS9 (it's an old version that isn't OSX Compatible). In the past it has never caused problems, but after running it this time I haven't been able to start in OSX.
Can anybody help me rectify this please?
Or will it be a case of wiping the hard drive and reinstalling OSX on it's seperate partition?
Thanks for any help,
Stu.
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if you put the osX disc in and boot off it (hold c key) and then reinstall it but choose the "archive and install" option (i think it is when you choose where you want to install panther to) you will be able to install panther without losing any data
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Step 2: uninstall Norton, and place software disks in the proper waste receptacle. If you need a disk utility thats got stronger stuff than those provided with the OS, get DiskWarrior.
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Thanks for the help mdc.
I wasn't aware of that archive and install option, used it and my OSX is working properly again. Thank you 
As for Norton I wasn't aware of the problems with it. I've used it on OSX 10.2 for a while and it worked fine. It's only recently that I upgraded to 10.3 and then had my problem.
Needless to say the rubbish Norton won't be used again.
I've posted in a few other forums and all recommend that Disk Doctor, shall purchase it.
BTW, as part of the process of archive and install I now have a folder called "Previous System". As I'm on a iMac with a relatively small hard drive, will it be safe to delete this folder or is it required to stay there? It does take up lots of H/D space.
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Originally posted by bowser123:
...BTW, as part of the process of archive and install I now have a folder called "Previous System". As I'm on a iMac with a relatively small hard drive, will it be safe to delete this folder or is it required to stay there? It does take up lots of H/D space.
If there is nothing in it you want (OS X does not access the Previous System folder), you can send it to the Trash.
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
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Originally posted by bowser123:
As for Norton I wasn't aware of the problems with it. I've used it on OSX 10.2 for a while and it worked fine. It's only recently that I upgraded to 10.3 and then had my problem.
Needless to say the rubbish Norton won't be used again.
I've posted in a few other forums and all recommend that Disk Doctor, shall purchase it.
No, NOT DiskDoctor -- that's Norton.
You want Alsoft's DiskWarrior.
tooki
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