crash

[jacob]

I have aquired 2nd hand G4 with 2 hard drives. System 9.2.2. working
perfectly on one drive but I seem to have damaged system X on the
other drive and get a black screen with the following text;

/etc/master.password: Not a directory
/etc/master.password: Not a directory
-sch:/etc/profile:
-sch-2.05b#

What does this mean?

Have tried Norton & Techtool, zapping pram, safe restart, but nothing
happens. Tried re-install with discs from a G5 but these won't
install. Perhaps Norton was the cause.
So next option is G4 system discs which I have yet to get hold of. Is
this the answer or is there another solution?

cheers

Jacob

[Chas]

Sound like someone has been booted into OS 9 and removed this rather
critical UNIX directory. When booted into X, these directories are
hidden - in OS 9 they're visible. Accidentally remove /etc/ and you've
got a borked installation.

You only option is a clean reinstall.

=:~)

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[Chas]

Oh and don't use Norton - it does more harm than good on OS X, as many
people here will attest.

[jacob]

Chas <nos...@nospam.comINVALID> wrote in message news:<Ff-dndQQs5r...@eclipse.net.uk>...

> Oh and don't use Norton - it does more harm than good on OS X, as many
> people here will attest.
>
> =:~)

Thanks for that - I have re-installed and now all OK. I think I was
being over-enthusiastic - dumping old stuff and de-fragmenting etc.

cheers

Jacob

[Steve C.]

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 2:35:08 -0800, jacob wrote
(in message <b9730626.05032...@posting.google.com>):

The original OS install disks are machine specific. So disks for a G5 will
not install on a g4, or any other machine other than the one it came with.
Retail versions of OS X will install on any machine that is capable of
running OS X.

Stephen C.