On Nov 27, 2005, at 5:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Today I tried an Archive and Install on my G3 Blue & White, OS
10.3.9. On the
first try the installer quit and said an error occurred, try again.
The second try did not allow me to transfer of users and
preferences from
previous system. It too failed.
Third try, a NEW system with NEW account was installed. This
install worked
fine except the old user accounts were missing.
I found the old user folders in "Previous System.1" folder and I
copied them
to the NEW user folder. A restart caused a freeze (kernel panic?).
Now I just get kernel panics upon restarts.
How do I fix this disaster and get this B & W back with the
original users
intact? Thanks --glen (digest mode)
P.S. I don't have a complete backup so I can't just restore and
start all
over again without losing some things I rather not lose.
Is there any way you can connect some sort of external (or internal)
drive to the thing to copy those user folders over? (Good excuse to
go out and get an external FW backup system or another internal drive)
A similar thing happened to me when I updated my G4 to Tiger, due to
a flaky install drive. I eventually managed to copy all the stuff
over from the Previous Users 1 folder to another drive, then
reformatted and re-installed the OS with another DVD drive.
That worked.
The I recreated the users then moved the contents of their user
directory from the backup to their new user folders, replacing
everything when asked.
Then in Terminal (One of the absolutely best things Apple ever did
was put a working copy of Terminal on the Tiger installer disk,
because this saved my butt.) I did this:
cd /Users
sudo chown -R username UserFolder
where username is the short user name of the users you recreated, and
UserFolder is their user folder name, generally it is the same as
their short name. This sets the permissions of the home directory
contents correctly.
This is probably why the system froze the first time. It's freezing
now because files it's expecting to find aren't there.
In your case, once you back up the user directories, you'll need to
create another administrative user to do this, because you can't
replace your own user directory:
Say the original system has the users Bob and Alice. If all you want
are those two users, back up, reformat and re-install the OS, then
create Bob or Alice as the first user (automatically an admin user.)
Create the other user, make them an admin user (this doesn't have to
be permanent, you can change this at will)
Log in as Bob, copy Alice's files over and do the chown command as
above. Log out as Bob, log in as Alice, then copy Bob's files in and
do the chown command.
You can do this in single-user mode as well, in which case you can do
both at once, but have to do everything at the command line.
--
Bruce Johnson
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