I am trying to bypass the admin setup on my powerbook g4 (2005) because it keeps freezing at the choose keyboard screen.
I looked up the tutorial using
mount -uw /
rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
The prompt says that there is no such file or directory, I used the ls -al /var/db, and I dont see it in the list that poped up.
Can anyone help me with this problem---or even the freeze on the choose keyboard?
PowerBook
NOTE
In my experience with this, when I booted into recovery mode typing:
rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
Said the file didn't exist. When I rebooted, the setup screen didn't show. I logged in as the non-admin user, then looked in /var/db and the file DID exist.
Further investigation showed that in recovery mode, / references the OSX Recovery Partition, and not Macintosh HD partition. So if you boot into recovery mode and .AppleSetupDone doesn't exist in /var/db/, and the setup screen still won't show, do the following in recovery mode:
cd /Volumes
ls -l (This will show all volumes)
cd Macintosh\ HD
cd var/db
ls -la (You should now see a .AppleSetupDone file)
rm .AppleSetupDone
After this, reboot and you should see the setup screen.
You can download the Combo update for whatever OS X version you have. Updates are free.
I had the same problem. I resolved it the same way. So far, so good.
i still have the problem it wont go past apple id keep asking me log in thts all
DDid you ever figure this out?
Hi Heathen819,
You need to change your Single User Mode code to
mount -uw /
var/db/.applesetupdone
shutdown -h now
or reboot
if it changee to bash then type root, it will change the language.
- Not Food
Hi for me when I try the
Touch /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
It’s says
Read-only file system what do I try then ?
rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone: No such file or directory
