{"id":6138,"date":"2012-08-04T14:12:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T19:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/?p=6138"},"modified":"2012-08-04T14:24:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-04T19:24:39","slug":"restarting-the-setup-process-for-a-new-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/archives\/6138","title":{"rendered":"Restarting the Setup Process for a new Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Apple<\/p>\n

Today I had a nasty scare - I was trying to migrate my son's old MacBook to a new MacBook Pro we just got him at the Apple store. The migration was going over WiFi and was going to take 14 hours. I hooked up ethernet cables, but it wasn't smart enough to detect the new and faster transport. With each passing minute, the time to finish was going up!<\/em> This was bad and getting worse.<\/p>\n

So I decided to kill it by shutting off the old machine and then the new. I then restarted the process, but decided moving my account wasn't necessary - Huge Mistake!<\/em><\/strong> Mine was the Administrator account. So when I got done transferring his, mine was in an incomplete state - all messed up, and his wasn't an admin! We were sunk.<\/p>\n

No install disk. No way around it. Well and truly hosed.<\/p>\n

Then I saw this<\/a>: How to restart the setup process. If I could get that going again, and transfer my<\/em><\/strong> account this time, we'd be set. So here's what I had to do: Restart the Mac holding down Cmd-s to get into single-user mode, and type:<\/p>\n

  $ \/<\/span>sbin\/<\/span>mount<\/span> -uw<\/span> \/<\/span>\n  $ rm<\/span> \/<\/span>var\/<\/span>db\/<\/span>.AppleSetupDone\n  $ exit<\/span><\/pre>\n
at this point, I got to restart the setup process and I could re-transfer my account. Once that was done, I could make his account an admin and we're safe.<\/p>\n
That was a close one. No fun at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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