[TheOvertones]

Okay, I'll admit it, I'm a PC user.
But OS X has intrigued me since I've done a lot with Linux in the past.
So I took a Mac here at my office that no one's using anymore and installed OS X with only a few problems...

Anyway, I had a nice install and I was getting some apps from the apple site and rebooting and on one reboot it booted into OS 9.1 and I don't know why, and I don't know how to get it to boot back into X.

Is there some Mac secret I don't know about?
Help me out, trying to become a Mac convert here
but it's not been easy so far.

Thanks John

[AirSluf]

Look in the control panels folder at the file Startup Disk CP. Use the Get Info command <ctrl i> to check the version number, if it is not 9.2.1 or greater use the 9.1 software update control panel which should grab it from Apple.

Once SD 9.2.1 is in the control panels folder, select it and you should see a list of drives with indicator triangles to the left. Hit the triangle to get the listed drive to expand and show the available system folders. They should list the available system version number to the right of their icon.

Then just select the OS X folder and hit restart. You should boot into X!

Good Luck!

[This message has been edited by AirSluf (edited 04-28-2001).]

[TheOvertones]

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. Worked like a charm
I think this response came as fast as some of the Linux user groups I've used in the past... very impressed, very appreciative.

[Since EBCDIC]

If you had searched these fora you would have found discussions of startup procedures. Searching is the real high-speed way of mining this chatter for the nuggets of wisdom.


Oh, and welcome to the sunnier side of the tracks!

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