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there is a way to install leopard by command line on a remote machine?

Probably a naive question, but after a failed security upgrade my iMac G5 with iSight would not reboot – gets stuck at grey window with apple and turning gear. So i found my original startup disk and rebooted holding down the “c” key. it brought me to install utility wich i quit and went to startup utility, chose to startup from install cd and clicked restart. Holding down “c” or not i always end up at the unstall utility. What can i do to boot from disk?
there is also disk utility available in the menu. Will “repair disk” help. I dont see any troubleshooting options. Thank you in advance for any advise.

I am using a 30 in screen with my MacBook Pro yet since I upgraded to Leopard the Contextual Menus have been split into two, so that if I want to see the bottom part of the items I have to click on a "More" arrow.

Is there any way I can get to see the whole of the contextual menus? I have plenty of screen space to see them all.

If not, how can I get a few automator plug ins I have created to move up to the upper part of the Menu? I have tried putting them into the HD/Library/Contextual Menu Items, also the System equivalent, but they still will not show in the CM upper level.

I have used FruitMenu to display the items, but they are still in the lower part of the CMs.

Thx for any help.

Hi, I have an emac 1.42GHz, it will not boot up in any way. I get stuck at the grey screen with an apple or the flashing folder with finder face and question mark alternating. The grey/apple screen comes with trying to boot from dvd disk. The folder/question mark comes with any other command or whatnot I try. I have reset both PRAM and PMU, tried I think all the commands and options and still nothing.Any ideas what is wrong? I have replaced the fat little battery inside as it was dead and nada! I am desperate, 2 of my boys have Fragile-X and are extremely upset that the mac is ummm “tired and trying to sleep”. I am thinking the HD might be wonky but that does not explain why it will not boot from disk!
I would like to say thank you in advance for your help! :>}

Can someone please help me! I’ve had an on-going problem for over a year now ever since I installed some dumb screensaver.

There are loads of pixels everywhere on desktop, surrounding icons or folders, it also appears in my dock and around open windows. They are not static, they move like crazy if you move the icons or folders.

Its not my screen, as I tried an alternative screen, and a projector, and they are still there.
I’ve zapped the pram
Run Tech Tool Pro
Disk First Aid
Norton

I’ve reset Mac back to factory settings with a clean-erase install.

I have attached a snapshot for you to see.

I’m baffled….

Any help would result in me finaly sleeping after a year.

Cheers
Phil

p.s. you may need to open it in Photoshop to see

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However, you may need to use these DRM protected audio files for some legal personal use such as inserting the music in a Power Point presentation, listening it on your mp3 or mp4 player like creative Zen, Sansa players, Anchros and PSP, or on your mobile phone like Nokia N-series and BlackBerry. Unfortunately you will find that you are not allowed.There's more »

Hello,

I noticed a strange phenomenon yesterday on my G4 Quicksilver running OS 10.4.10. I normally use a regular user account for security purposes, and noticed that I could go into my Admin Documents folder. It was just by accident that I noticed it. Has anyone seen this behavior or have an explanation? Is it a flaw in the OS 10.4.10 patch?

Hi, is there a way to open a specific port under leopard?
When I used Tiger I could choose application and port.

Now when I’m running Leopard under Security -> Firewall: I only can choose application..

I have problem with azureus.

Keep getting this question:
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/2386/picture2pm0.png

I have added the azureus application under the firewall settings but it keeps asking me the question.

Think it’s the same as:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6218715

any ideas?

by terminal is possible to recognize the chipset of a PCMCIA?
on LInux (debian distro) I use CARDCTL IDENT, there is a similar/equivalent command for Mac?

Hi. I switched to my beautiful mac about a year ago, and am still every now and then running into things I could do on a pc, but cant seem to work out on my mac, possibly because I never really understood what I was doing in the first place…. It is getting a little slow and temperamental, and on a pc I would format it, but I dont really know what I can do to tidy it up a bit, and get it up to top form again.
thanks
Deborah