OS X resets during the initial Setup

[Chris122990]

I have installed Kalyway 10.5.2 on my dell latitude successfully.

 

When it starts up though, I get through where it asks what nation am I in and the keyboard layout, but when it asks me if I already have a mac, I choose Do Not Transfer Now, and it causes it to reset back to the nation page. I am going to post this here and in the nstallation section because I am really unsure of which section it should go in.

 

If anyone knows a way past this, please tell me.

[zmaster007]

Copied from a post by Caleb Gray - kudos for him, this worked for me.

 

1) Boot up, and hit a key (or F8, depending on your Darwin Bootloader).

 

2) Type in "-s" (NO quotes!) and press enter.

 

3) Once booted it will tell you to do two things, do them. (You can put them on a single line by using &&: fck && mount [use what they say, I can't recall from memory.])

 

4) When those commands finish you will (should?) have access to your HDD under /Volumes, so navigate there now: cd "/Volumes/NAME-OF-YOUR-VOLUME-HERE/var/db/" (WITH quotes!)

 

5) Execute the command: touch .AppleSetupDone

 

6) Then run: passwd

 

7) It will ask you for the new password for the user "root." If it doesn't then try "passwd root" instead.

 

8) The passwords in *nix* OSs are not repeated back to you with asterisks for security purposes. Do not be afraid to type a password, I will assume you use the password: "password."

 

9) Confirm that OS X is telling you that the password was changed.

 

10) Keep executing "exit" until it boots into Leopard.

 

11) Login using the following: username: root password: password

 

After that I created a new user account in the Users preference pane so I didnt have to log in as root every time

 

Hope this helps!!

[Sucram]

Has Helped me aswell.

 

Thanks so much