10.4 installation hangs at blue screen on PowerBook

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frachlitz

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Hi Forum,

i have just bought a G4 PowerBook of a friend.

I have deleted his user at add myself, but i still says xxxxx's computer in the logonscreen so want to reinstall the machine.

I can get it to boot from the DVD (cd) by holding down "C", the apple logos comes and i can hear the disk spinning. But i always hang at the blue screen right after. (somtimes with mousepointer in the top left corner).

There is nothing attached, i have also dl an illeagal CD version of the installation as i thourgt it was my DVD disk there where somthing wrong with, but the same result :-(
(Inside OSX i can read the DVS/CD and have also tried starting the installation from there)

Any ideas?
 
Actually, you're making life too hard on yourself. Open System Preferences, click on Sharing, and the first thing you'll see is Computer Name. Change that to what you want.

Additionally, (if you haven't already), click on Accounts in System Preferences and create a new account for yourself. Then log in as your new user, go to Accounts again, and delete your friend's old one.

EDIT: This will delete all of your friend's old stuff, such as iTunes music, documents, etc. This means stuff that you've added as well. Move this stuff out of the User folder before you delete that user

Enjoy!
 
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