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I have just ordered my new imac and I am a "switcher". I know PC's really well. I was just wondering where the heck the actual OS is installed on the mac, i.e. C:/windows (on a PC). Hope you can help.
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It depends somewhat on what you mean. The core system resources are stored in /System. The kernel itself is located at /mach_kernel. Unix utilities associated with the OS are stored in the standard directories such as /usr, /bin and /etc.
Aside from /System, these locations are all normally invisible in the Finder.
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Just to emphasize: most of the core system files are hidden from you, and all of them are protected by permissions so that you can't monkey with them -- and that's good, because there are VERY few reasons to be doing so. Most anything you need to do that would be analogous to the \Windows\ directory is in one of the Library folders: either /Library/ or ~/Library/ (that's the systemwide library and your personal library, respectively). Respect this organization.
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Originally Posted by tooki
Just to emphasize: most of the core system files are hidden from you, and all of them are protected by permissions so that you can't monkey with them -- and that's good, because there are VERY few reasons to be doing so. Most anything you need to do that would be analogous to the \Windows\ directory is in one of the Library folders: either /Library/ or ~/Library/ (that's the systemwide library and your personal library, respectively). Respect this organization.
tooki
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Originally Posted by guyncali2
I have just ordered my new imac and I am a "switcher". I know PC's really well. I was just wondering where the heck the actual OS is installed on the mac, i.e. C:/windows (on a PC). Hope you can help.
That's 'C:\windows'.
How the heck do I stop that emoticon from showing?
Thanks Chuckit! I should have looked before I leaped.
(Last edited by msuper69; Nov 13, 2005 at 08:13 PM.
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Smilies don't appear if you click "Disable smilies in text." :\
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The arrangement of the file system, and in particular the files that make up the OS is radically different in OS X from the way Windows works. OS X is based on a Unix-like OS (one of the Berkely OSs), and brings with it the file arrangement of Unix. But that's fine because you almost never have to mess with OS files. As a user, you'll have basically your own chunk of filesystem, and that's all you need to worry about-and then you usually don't need to mess with much.
Welcome to the Mac world, and just use the machine. After all, it just works. 
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