drumthrasher109 Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 When i'm in the beginning, making an accont, I click on create and about 5 seconds later the hard drive stops doing things and 30 seconds later the cursor will change to the rainbow thing. I might reinstall Leopard again since I know what to do...or should I wait longer for it to make the account... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizmoarena Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 It takes around a minute for me. Try unplugging your internet connection when you are creating the account. See if it helps. As far as I know there's no issue with account creation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drumthrasher109 Posted January 24, 2008 Author Share Posted January 24, 2008 Now I can't even get into as posted before, I did the bootfix last night and it got everything working fine, except I waited only like 45 seconds, I should have waited longer. I'll try this again tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drumthrasher109 Posted January 24, 2008 Author Share Posted January 24, 2008 TEST Anyway, I got everything working, except, as before, once I click on the continue button at the create your account screen, and about 7 seconds later, the hard drive light stops blinking and everything is basically at a stand still, then maybe 30 seconds later, the cursor changes to a rainbow thing. I've waited 5 minutes, sometimes the hard drive does some stuff for about 10 seconds then stops again. I think the account is created, I can stop, and look at /Users (in Vista/MacDrive) and my account is there. So, is there a way I can skip the welcome screen and go straight to my desktop or the login screen? UPDATE: Still waiting, my second DVD drive just blinked a few times, even though theres nothing in there. Maybe its setting up everything, but really slowly? I remember a month ago when I somehow got Leopard working it made the account fairly fast. UPDATE2: Now I think the hard drive just turned itself off... UPDATE3: 10 minutes...Is there a command in the darwin bootloader I can try? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Loz Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 ya just press window key plus Q to quite the account creating process Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drumthrasher109 Posted January 24, 2008 Author Share Posted January 24, 2008 I did that and it does nothing. Is there a way to bypass the whole getting started thinger? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver_Shadow Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 try this. I had the sam problem. Try using the boot option -x for safemode. That worked for me. Then after you finish the process, just reboot in normal mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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