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Selected Mac OS X Applications trash icon, or press Delete to delete a file. Using the Desktop The Apple menu: The Apple menu is your Mac’s control center. Use the Apple menu to open System Preferences, change the way the Dock works, or select a network location. You can also get new software, shut down and restart your computer, and log out. The key to learning about OS X's command line is manual (or man) pages. Master the command line: How to use man pages. Because a popup menu near the top of the page lets you choose an OS X. This document describes how to manually configure the TCP/IP settings within Mac OS X. NOTE: Mac OS X is configured for a DHCP TCP/IP connection by default. Manual Configuration: Snow Leopard (10.6) and Leopard (10.5) Click the Apple icon on the upper left-hand corner. Select System Preferences.

Installing Mac OS X

You want to install Mac OS X on a different disk or disk partition.

Instead of installing Mac OS X on the same disk or disk partition as Mac OS 9, you can install it on a different disk or disk partition.

Advice

If your disk is not partitioned, you need to reformat it. Before you do, back up your documents. Open the Mac OS X Installer and choose Open Disk Utility from the Installer menu. Follow the onscreen instructions to partition and format your disk, then install Mac OS X. You can install Mac OS 9 on the other partition later.

The Installer doesn’t appear.

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If you double-clickInstall Mac OS X and the Installer doesn’t appear, restart your computer while holding down the C key to start up your computer using the Mac OS X CD. (For more information about restarting your computer, see the documentation that came with it.)

If the Installer still doesn’t appear, restart your computer and press the mouse button or trackpad button to eject the Mac OS X CD. After your computer starts up, insert the Mac OS X CD again and use the Startup Disk control panel (Mac OS 9) or the Startup Disk preferences pane (Mac OS X) to select the Mac OS X CD as your startup disk and restart.

You see a message about updating your computer’s firmware.

If a message says you need to update your computer’s firmware, do so before you install Mac OS X. Updaters may be available on your Mac OS X CD. You can also check the Apple software updates Web site (asu.info.apple.com).

Installing Mac OS X was interrupted and now you can’t restart your computer.

If this happens and Mac OS 9 is installed on your computer, restart your computer while holding down the Option key to start up using Mac OS 9. If you cannot start up this way, insert a Mac OS 9 CD in your computer and hold down the C key while restarting your computer. Open the Startup Disk control panel and select your hard disk with Mac OS 9 installed.

Logging in to Mac OS X

You can’t log in to your computer.

First, make sure you are typing your user name and password with the same capitalization

and punctuation that you used originally. If you still can’t log in, log in as an administrator, open Users preferences, and change your user name or password. If you don’t know the administrator password and you have the Mac OS X CD, start up your computer using the CD and choose Reset Password from the Installer menu. If you don’t have the CD, contact the administrator of your computer.

You forgot your password.

If you forget the password for your computer, insert the Mac OS X CD and restart your computer while holding down the C key. When the Installer appears, choose Reset Password from the Installer menu and follow the onscreen instructions.

Troubleshooting tips

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The Installer cannot repair your hard disk.

If a message says that the Installer cannot repair the disk, you may need to reformat it. First, back up your documents. Then start the installation again, and when you select the destination disk, click the checkbox to format it and choose Mac OS Extended.

The Installer cannot update the hard disk driver.

The Installer cannot update non-Applehard disks. Use the disk utility recommended by the manufacturer to update your disk before installing Mac OS X. Make sure to use a version of the utility that is compatible with Mac OS X.

You can’t log in to your NetInfo account.

If you can’t log in to your NetInfo account, you can log in to your computer as the local user “Administrator,” with your NetInfo password.

Searching Mac Help

What’s the latest news about Mac OS X?

Using Mac OS X

Network services don’t seem to be working.

Make sure your computer is connected to the network and that your network settings are correct in System Preferences. See your system administrator to make sure the service is available or if you have questions about the settings you should use.

You can’t quit an application.

If you can’t quit an application, choose Force Quit from the Apple menu, select the application in the list, and click Force Quit. (You do not need to restart your computer.)

Important When you force an application to quit, any unsaved changes to documents open in that application are lost.

The Finder doesn’t seem to be working.

If the Finder doesn’t seem to be working, choose Force Quit from the Apple menu and select the Finder, then click Relaunch. The Finder will restart. You do not need to restart your computer. Your applications will remain open and you will not lose any changes to your documents.

Switching startup disks

You need to start up your computer using Mac OS 9.

To start up using Mac OS 9, open System Preferences and click Startup Disk. Select a Mac OS 9 system disk and restart your computer.

Select the Mac OS 9 system you want to use.

You want to start up in Mac OS X after starting up in Mac OS 9.

If you start up your computer in Mac OS 9 and then want to start up in Mac OS X, use the Startup Disk control panel to select your Mac OS X disk. Use the Startup Disk control panel on the

Mac OS X CD or a later version if it’s available. To install the control panel, drag it to the System Folder on your Mac OS 9 disk.

If necessary, click this triangle to see the systems you can choose.

Select the Mac OS X system you want to use.

Click Restart to start up in Mac OS X.

Troubleshooting tips

Getting support

For information about the support available for this product, see the Apple Software Services and Support Guide included with Mac OS X.

Getting help

To search for solutions to problems you have with Mac OS X, choose Help from the Help menu, type a question, and click Ask.

Getting news about Mac OS X

To get the latest information about Mac OS X, Mac OS X applications, and Classic applications, open Mac Help and click More under News.

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The OS X Terminal is a very powerful tool for configuring and using a Mac, and can be used to script and program a number of aspects of the computer's operations; however, its text-based interface can be a bit of a cryptic environment to first-timers, especially when it comes to finding out what you can use it for.

There are thousands of Terminal commands available, but when you first launch it you might not have a clue where to look for them. Of course there are basic commands like 'ls' for listing directory contents or 'cd' for changing directory, but in addition there are text editors, string parsers, expression managers, and numerous other commands that, depending on the purpose, can make the Terminal a hidden but exceptionally powerful tool.

If you are just getting started with using the Terminal, you may find it useful to build your command vocabulary. There are many resources such as the BSD Unix command summary that will give you a quick overview of the common commands; another approach is to list all commands available to you and then look up the manual page of each individually to see what its purpose is and how it's used.

There are a number of ways to list all of the commands, but two quick ones are Tab completion and the 'compgen' command. For Tab completion, simply type something in Terminal and hit Tab once or twice (and if prompted, confirm that you want the options displayed) and the system will list all available commands based on the text you entered.

If you press the Tab key without having entered any text, then the Terminal will output all possible commands (after you confirm that you want it to do so). If you do this, it helps to make the Terminal window as large as possible. You can then press Enter to display more items that are off the page until you are dropped to the command prompt again, but then you can scroll up and down to review the commands that were listed.

The second option is to list the commands and aliases available to you using the 'compgen' built-in command. Simply type the following command, and you will be given the full alphabetical list of commands available to you in the system:

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compgen -ca

You can also redirect the output to a text file on your desktop called 'commands.txt' to peruse later:

compgen -ca > ~/Desktop/commands.txt

Referring to this list of commands, you can then look each up using the Terminal commands 'man' for the full manual page or 'whatis' for a brief synopsis of what it does. For instance, unlike the command 'diskutil' it may be difficult to guess what the command 'xattr' does from its name, so you can quickly look this up by running the following:

whatis xattr

Note: If the whatis command is not working then run the command '/usr/libexec/makewhatis' in the Terminal.

You can find more information and specifics on how to use the command through its manual page. There are a number of approaches to viewing a manual page for a command, with four that may be most useful:

  1. The man command
    The default way to view a manual page is to use the man command the way the whatis command is used above, which will bring up a formatted instruction manual for the command that you can navigate through with the arrow keys or the F and B keys (for forward and backward). For example, to view the manual page for the xattr command, you would run the following:

    man xattr


    To quit the manual page, simply press the Q key.
  2. The 'xman' command
    If you have XQuartz installed or Apple's provided X11 windowing system for Unix (provided by Apple in OS X Lion and previous versions), then you can run the 'xman' command to open up a manual page browser that you can click through. This is a quick and convenient way to not only view the manuals, but also see the available commands.
  3. The Web
    A third resource is various Web sites that contain collections of man pages for commands. An easy approach is to simply do a Web search for 'man COMMAND;' however, this may bring up platform-specific manual pages that do not completely pertain to the command in your version of OS X. A more Mac-specific man page collection is Apple's OS X Manual Pages site.
  4. Third-party man page utility
    A final option is to use a third-party manual page tool, such as OnyX, which contains a full man page browser. Like the xman utility, this will give you a quick way to view available commands and study their manual pages. In addition, OnyX provides an option to save the manual pages as PDFs.

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