Mac OS X The Missing Manual, 2nd Ed

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.And now,thanks to the new Clean Install option, you can without having to erase the hard drive first, as you did in earlierMac OS X versions.TIPYou can't perform a clean install "upward" from an earlier version of Mac OS X only from 10.2.Inother words, if you have 10.1 and want a clean, perfect installation of 10.2, perform an Upgradeinstallation first, as described above.Then perform another installation, this one a clean one, asdescribed here.Start by following steps 1-4 that start in Section A.3.1.When you come to the Select a Destination Disk screen,click Options.Now you're offered four kinds of installation.Turn on "Archive and Install" and then "Preserve Users and NetworkSettings."This powerful option leaves all of your accounts (Home folders, documents, pictures, movies, Favorites, email,and so on) untouched.As the option's name implies, it also leaves your network and Internet settings alone.Butit deactivates your old System folder (storing it in a new folder called Previous System Folder) and puts a newone in its place.And that's exactly what you want.NOTEYou can erase the hard drive at this point if you want to.The "Erase destination" checkbox wipesout everything on the selected drive before installing Mac OS X.(From the pop-up menu, chooseMac OS Extended.The other choice, UNIX File System, is exclusively for people who want to writeUNIX programs or require a case-sensitive directory system.)[ Team LiB ][ Team LiB ]A.6 The Setup AssistantWhen the Mac "comes to" after a basic installation, the first thing you experience is some arty, liquid visualeffects, some jazzy music, and an animated stream of Welcome messages in various languages.Once Apple hasfinished showing off its multimedia prowess, you arrive at a Welcome screen.Once again, you're in for a click-through-the-screens experience, this time with the aim of setting up your Mac'svarious settings.After answering the questions on each screen, click Continue.1.Choose your area of the country.If you chose English as your primary language during the installation phase, for example, you're nowasked which particular regional form of English you speak: United States, Australia, Canada, or UnitedKingdom.Select the appropriate one and click Continue.2.Choose a keyboard layout.The Character Palette describes the purpose of keyboard layouts.Most people can click right past thisscreen.3.Fill in the Registration Information screen, if you like.This is your chance to become a grain of sand on the great beach of the Apple database.Click Continue.TIPIf you're not interested in providing your personal information to Apple, or if you've alreadydone so during a previous installation, press -Q.A message offers you Skip, Shut Down, andCancel buttons.If you click Skip, you jump straight ahead to step 5.4.Answer "A Few More Questions."This window includes two pop-up menus that let you tell Apple where your computer will be used (Home,Home Business, and so on) and what you do for a living.You'll also find buttons that let you accept ordecline some exciting new junk mail from Apple and its partners.Click Continue.The "Thank You" screen now appears, telling you that the information you've just supplied will be sent toApple as soon as you connect to the Internet.Click Continue.5.Create your Administrator account (Figure A-1).Most of the steps up to this point have been pretty inconsequential, but this is a big moment.You'reabout to create your account your Administrator account, in fact, as described in Chapter 11.All you have to do is make up a name, a short variation of your name, and a password (Section 11.2).Choose carefully; you can't easily change your name later.Figure A-1.If you are the only person who uses your Mac if it's your personal laptop, for examplenone of this information is especially important.You'll never have to remember any of it.In fact, ifsecurity isn't an issue for you, you might want to consider leaving the Pass-word field empty.(TheMac will warn you that this isn't a particularly secure scenario if you work on an office network, butyou don't care.Having no password will make it easier for you to hook up your Mac to another one, asdescribed in Chapter 12.)1.As noted in Figure A-1, this is the only chance you'll ever have to create an Administrator account with nopassword at all.If you're the only one who uses your Mac, it's perfectly OK to leave the password fieldempty.What you do here is extremely important, especially if several different people use this Mac at differenttimes, or if other people connect to it on a network.See Section 11.2 for details on creating a passwordand a hint that will help you remember it.Click Continue.NOTEThe rest of the setup process involves the creation of an Internet account.If your Mac wasalready connected to the Internet under Mac OS 9, Mac OS X is kind enough to absorb thosesettings and take you straight to the final screen.In other words, you may not encounter thescreens described in steps 6, 7, 8, and 9.2.Specify how you want to connect to the Internet.You can tell the setup program that you don't want to set up an Internet account right now [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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