I finally got this damn iMac to boot up and now it's running off of OS 9.
...I'm going to sell it and I wanted to know if there is a way to completely clear out the hard drive without having to drag and drop everything to the trash and/or reinstalling OS 9 or a new operating system.
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bobw - I just got done doing this. I'm at the final step:
"Look for these two items in the output:
lrwxrwxr-t  1 root  admin  {date} etc -> private/etc
lrwxrwxr-t  1 root  admin  {date} var -> private/var"
When I did the previous step, it listed "/etc/master.passwd: No such file...
Nope, start it up in single user mode, type "cd /etc" and all it does is bring down a line of text that says "sh-2.05a#"
...if I type "cd/etc" (no space between the "cd" and "/etc") it says: "sh: cd/etc: No such file or directory".
I have the original style iMac (Graphite Firewire version) and whenever I go to boot it up, it gives me this message. What can I do to fix this? My younger brother managed to screw this mac up and I can't even boot it up anymore.
Where do I go from here? Thanks!