clean install

I recently initialized my hard drive and performed a clean install of Jaguar. I had installed it about six months ago but in the past month I was getting lots of strange problems (apps quitting on me, very slow system response times) so after backing things up I erased my hard drive, once via...

If I preform a clean install of Jaguar on my G3 iBook will it also install OS 9? I prefer if OS 9 does not install. I got my first mac 8 months ago and never used os 9 and never will need it since I statered with OS X. thanks for the help. Mike

I picked up an older iMac that has OS8.6 on it. I have 9.2.1 and OSX, but I can't install either unless I have OS9.0. I understand that OSX uses OS9 as well (not sure if it HAS to be 9.0, or any OS9 update). So my question is, how do I perform a clean install of OS9.2.1 (the only OS9 software...

I just did a clean install of Jaguar on my modded Cube, and it's missing key commands like make, and according to my iBook - which has been upgraded, and never cleaned installed from 10.0.x, about 100 other commands in the usr/bin location. anybody know how to recover these, ESPECIALLY make...

I would like to do a clean install of my system and I am currently running OS 9.2 that I downloaded from the apple web site. There is no option to clean install when I run the installer. Any recommendations? I cannot start up from the original system 9 system discs because the CD/DVD drive wont...

My parents ordered an eMac which came pre-installed with 10.1. There was a Jaguar upgrade CD in the box (2 CD:s + Developer Tools). The Upgrade Installer won't let me do a clean install, ie. if I reformat the drive during installation with Disc Utility, it won't let me install. The Upgrade CD 1...

Hi, My big Mac (DP 800) badly needs a clean reinstall of OSX 10.2. It is crashing all the time. But when I run the installer disk, contrary to what I have read there is no option for "Archive and Install". The option button should be right after I select the install disk. But it just isn't...

My buddy has an old Imac with 8.6 on it. Can he just reformat and clean install with Jaguar or does he need to clean install with 9.2 first..then Jaguar? Thanks

Hello - im a osX newbie and am having problems getting my osX to run after deleting several apps and files. what is installed when you install osX besides the system folder? how do you do a clean install and/or remove the old osX currently installed? I get the following error when...

Hi I hope to install Jaguar this week but am still fretting over whether to install over 10.15 or do the new"clean" install. I have had X on my machine (450 G4) since the beta and have upgraded thru 10.15. All is working well except for a few minor quirks. I am totally X native since the...

Before I get 10.2, I'd like to do a clean install and wipe everything and start clean. I don't ever use classic and right now it is pretty much a waste of space. My only reason for keeping it on my drive is that there is no easy way to uninstall it without getting conflicts with OS X, so I...

Is it better to do a clean install of 10.2 instead of archive/install? I don't know what to backup from 10.1.5 to bring my programs, preferences, and files over to X.2. Anyone have any suggestions? I also have a second question - I read in a previous post about deleting 9.2, since I haven't...

This may sound dumb but I'll ask anyways. I want to do a clean install of 10.2 and i was wondering if i then have to re-register all my apps? Or what happens to all that stuff in the Library? I know it gets erased by can i back it up and not have to worry about copying some of it back. I've...

Here's my problem. I installed a new larger disk at the same time I bot a new Radeon 7000 video card and sold my old one. What I did the first time I installed OS X was start with my retail 10.0, then did an upgrade using the 10.1 upgrade disk. Unfortunately, the Radeon will NOT boot using the...

Just take a look at this page!: http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/morefeatures.html Look under the "Interface Improvements" heading, look at the left column, 2 bullet points above the bottom. Woo hoo hoo! Does that mean that Apple unified all the system resources into one folder...

After a few months of experimenting with OS X, I've decided to do a clean install of my system. However, I want to minimize the downtime and do as little work as possible. Now, after the clean install, can I just restore my user folder from a copy? Or would restoring my user folder invalidate...

How do you do a clean install of the Mac OS x.1.2 upgrade? Will that speed things up?

I just clean installed OS 10.1 on my iMac DV+ 400 and I will be damned if im not getting double the performance from my 10.0.4 to 10.1 update. You can Clean Install on the UPDATE DISCS [like I did] or of course, with the Full Installer Disc. If you are at all dissapointed with 10.1's speed...

How do you Clean install with the OS 10.1 Update Cd? When I boot to the installer I see no option to clean install.

I need a final answer [im not ripping off the television show im am more orriginal than that]. Will clean install work on the Mac OS 10.1 update cds?