<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thank you, Gary. We're down to the wire, and this helps.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Mark<BR><DIV><DIV>On Dec 24, 2006, at 10:30 AM, Gary Archer wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <BR> <BR> <BR><P><FONT size="2">On 12/23/06 4:57 AM, "<A href="mailto:gooddog@interlync.com">gooddog@interlync.com</A>" <<A href="mailto:gooddog@interlync.com">gooddog@interlync.com</A>> wrote:</FONT> </P><P><FONT size="2">> On the subject of my iBook going to the 14 year old for Christmas, I</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">> have lost my instructions for restoring the iBook back to how it</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">> arrived. The idea was to put it back to the way it was so that when</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">> the boy opens it, turns it on, he will be seeing it as if it were</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">> new, with the welcome screen, and the set-up.</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">> </FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">> Can anyone point me to these directions? I have a memory of starting</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">> up from the cd, doing a erase and install, and then there was another</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">> step that enabled this "new, outofthebox" piece, but I'm a blank.</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">> </FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">> Thanks for your help, and "happy holidays".</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">> </FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">Boot from the Software Restore CD's (CD1) (not the OS X install CD). Select</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">and format the HD, give it the name Macintosh HD for completeness. My iBook</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">has 5 Software Restore CD's, three OS X CD's a TechTool CD (from the</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">AppleCare Support) .</FONT> </P><P><FONT size="2">Gary</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>