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Bypass Leopard Registration
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Join Date: Aug 2003
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At my job, we are imaging about 65 MacBooks. I ned to find a way to get past the registration screen so I can get in and change the names of these things. How do I do this? I did a forum search and it told me to do Command-Q, but it didn't work. It comes up with a dialogue box saying that I have to continue registration in order to set up an account, and if I don't continue, it shuts down. We are running Leopard 10.5.3.
Any help would be appreciated ASAP!
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Go one more step before you cmd-q.
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I've tried it at all different steps and it still comes up with the same thing. I don't want to set up an account because I'm just going to wipe it out and put our image on it, so that's why I'm inquiring.
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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I don't understand this.
Are you trying to create a generic image, and you don't want to register during creation of that proto image ?
Otherwise, you'd only wipe those harddrives, where does it ask for registration info after wiping the harddrives ?
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AFAIK, you can only bypass the registration screen, not the account setup screen.
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Join Date: Apr 2005
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When creating your image, register it and then the registration screen won't pop up after you push the image out, it'll go straight to the Desktop with automatic login.
Nothing you set now will stick after you wipe & image them, so why bother even going into OS X?
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We were trying to get into the MacBooks so we could run our imaging program on it. But we found out how to do it (by holding down N at bootup).
Thanks, and sorry for the confusion! I'm a pro at doing this with Ghost on the PC, but God forbid they put out a version for the Mac. Imaging BLOWS on a Mac.
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Join Date: Feb 2000
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You could have just booted into target disk mode and imaged the drive from another machine.
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Originally Posted by stwain2003
We were trying to get into the MacBooks so we could run our imaging program on it. But we found out how to do it (by holding down N at bootup).
Thanks, and sorry for the confusion! I'm a pro at doing this with Ghost on the PC, but God forbid they put out a version for the Mac. Imaging BLOWS on a Mac.
Actually, I found imaging on a Mac far easier than on a PC, and this is in a school with 150+ Macs.
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I concur. Imaging Macs is incredibly easy.
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Originally Posted by BLAZE_MkIV
You could have just booted into target disk mode and imaged the drive from another machine.
That's what we ended up doing. And it's incredibly inefficient when with Ghost, I hook 10 computers at a time up over a gig switch and its done in 20 minutes!
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Mac Enthusiast
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You're learning something new.
You didn't really think it would just come lollipop easy did you?
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Backups are like guns and condoms. It's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
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Originally Posted by stwain2003
That's what we ended up doing. And it's incredibly inefficient when with Ghost, I hook 10 computers at a time up over a gig switch and its done in 20 minutes!
You can do that with Macs too.
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Mac Enthusiast
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Originally Posted by moonmonkey
lollypop easy?
You like that? I'm trademarking it as we speak
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Backups are like guns and condoms. It's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Feb 2000
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Wait are you copying the image to the Mac of making an image of what's on the Mac? It sounded like the later. If its the former try here Bombich Software: NetRestore
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