[iBook] Old and New accounts on my Clamshell

[Kathryn Antoinette Seth]

Thanks for answering me !
I've done a Panther install on my desktop computer, but I get so wound  
up about such simpleness that I tend to forget how to do some things  
that would normally be quite easy to do-LOL!, like Partition a drive.  
Does the installation show you how to do this-I don't remember, when  
you say a ''small partition'' what do you mean, does it have to do with  
the amount of Gigabytes installed for O.S.9. Before I did a Panther  
install on my desktop I was working in O.S.9.2.2, I actually liked  
working in it except I was constantly getting error messages and that  
was no fun, and then my Grandchildren were teasing me because I hadn't  
moved on- so I finally did it, I still am trying to figure it out,  
sometimes I do silly things and get a "warning" window- asking me if I  
want to report a bug ?, I noticed too about Panther is you should use  
the menu more, it's all a learning process anyway, but the clamshell, I  
wonder if it's just about the same, I guess it is. I'll try to change  
that short name & the computer name when I do the re-install but if it  
doesn't work can I come and talk to you again?. ttyl .................
On Mar 8, 2006, at 7:01 PM, Michael Flournoy wrote:

> If you boot the computer from the OS install disk I believe you can  
> change these things from there. If you are going to install Panther  
> anyway then just do a full erase and install, that is the better way  
> anyhow. I have a 366 clamshell running Panther and with 320mb of Ram  
> it worked very nicely. I "loaned" my 256mb chip to my sons new Pismo  
> and now with 192mb it is still usable but not nearly as nice. Max the  
> ram. Also, although I never use classic apps, when I installed Panther  
> I set up a small partition for OS9. That way if OSX has problems I can  
> still boot the computer up and access my files.
>
> Mike
>
>
> Kathryn Antoinette Seth wrote:
>> */After buying & receiving my clamshell, I was so eager to use & set  
>> it up to receive and send email, that I plumb forgot to change the  
>> other person's ( short name ), so what it looks like now is: My name  
>> _ _ _ _ & so on / the faded out ( short name ) of the other person /  
>> my password + my verified password & the password
>> hint, as I was reading in the book, ''the missing manual'', it  
>> describes ''editing accounts''-for instance, only administrators can  
>> change an accounts name, & even they Can't change an accounts short  
>> name after the account has been created.
>> However, I want to re-install Panther, it came with Panther, but also  
>> has O.S.9 which I doubt I'll be using again, if I do this reinstall ,  
>> would these settings stay the same or could I put them in manually  
>> and change that 'D a r n' short name ?, Just remembered that this  
>> name is also SET for being the computers name too, as I write this on  
>> my other computer, because when I had written it on that one and sent  
>> it, it couldn't be sent (of which I don't know why) the software  
>> update is installing 7 items Now into the Clamshell. I need some  
>> guidance here. Please ~ ! Thanks./*
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