At 3:59 +0900 1/14/02, Dan Kogai wrote: > Then I switched startup volume to backup disk. MacOSX boots >smoothly and... Startup Assistant appears. You can ssh to the >machine with the same account and same key, every file is there. >It's just Startup Assistant; Until you create a new account w/ >that, it won't get me to Finder. > The backup volume right after the copied is in the state that was >not shut down. Is that the reason why? but if so, how >loginwindow.app tells if Startup Assistant needs to be run? Is >there anyone who nows about it? Fred?
Setup Assistant will run if the file /var/db/.AppleSetupDone is missing at boot time. If loginwindow doesn't see that file, it'll think this is a virgin system and launch Setup Assistant. After Setup Assistnat is done, it will create that file to prevent it from launching again. Did your backup program copy the /var directory and all dotfiles? adam --
