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I tried logging in as root with my password (as the first admin) and it does not work. When I logged in with su myusername I still was not able to chmod 777 on the directory for my admin user. I am/was referring to the root level Applications directory. It seems like any admin for the...

Hi The first day I installed OS X I was able to move software into the Applications directory. The next day the message came up that I did not have the authority to do this. Under the terminal the user of that directory is root and as an administrator of the machine I do not have write...

Hi I downloaded several tar and gz files under OS 9 before installing OS X. Unstuffing and installing them never worked and caused some sub-system to not work until I rebooted. Is there a requirement that only allows downloads to be unstuffed (expanded gz and/or tar)when they have been...

Hi I installed OS X on a new drive. There are two partitions (the first 7.5 GB and the second the rest of the space). After formatting and partitioning the drive, I installed 9.1 from the installation disk. I rebooted and it runs fine. Then I installed OS X. It booted up just fine. I...

Hi Part of my family is not ready for the OS X experience. I bought a second IDE drive to install OS X on. My question is this: Can OS X boot off of the slave drive (1st partition of that drive) or must it be off the boot partition of the master drive? That way I can leave the families...

I installed OS X on the same drive as my OS 9.04 installation. All the OS 9.04 was put inside a the OS 9 folder. I can boot between the two OSes without a problem. However, now under OS 9 my Appletalk network doesn't find my Laserwriter. I can't seem to get the Appletalk network to find it...