If you can get to single user mode you can remove the file that OS X checks for during boot to determine if the Mac has already been setup. This install, same user account / password does have admin rights. Obviously at this point there is nothing to install onto, but it proves that both the DVD player, and the DVD do work.īy physically unplugging and removing only one hard drive, I have discovered there's an entire 2nd install sitting there.
(Which means the keyboard works, I guess!) Only holding down 'shift' prevents iTunes auto-running after login. The DVD is ejected during this boot sequence. The attempts to boot with the various keys depressed appears to have no effect whatsoever. There appears to be no admin account of any kind. There appears to be only 1 account - the standard account I am logging in with.
I have inherited an old Mac OS X 10.5.8 + original install DVD.