[X4U] Start-up problem 10.3

Andy Hannen andy.hannen at virgin.net
Tue Aug 3 17:38:09 PDT 2004


> you'll need to kill the Netinfo DB.
> boot into single user mode and type:
> fsck -y
> mount -uw /
> mv /var/db/netinfo/local.nidb /var/db/netinfo/local.nidb.bad
> rm/var/db/.AppleSetupDone
> reboot
> 
> After which the system will boot as if you had turned it on for the first
> time. here you can create that initial account which should map to the
> account that is already there. Then go in and create the second account.
> 
> 
> You'll then want to back up the net info DB.
> 
> 
Thanks, it worked. I didn't really want to give in and re-install Panther.
But where is the Netinfo DB kept?

Andy



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