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Fan Area => The Hydlaa Plaza => Topic started by: leuxast on July 15, 2005, 02:55:50 am

Title: Mac Commands
Post by: leuxast on July 15, 2005, 02:55:50 am: I have heard from a not very reliable source, that on a Mac you can turn on a text based window (Linux sort of thing) by pressing A whilst starting up.
I was wondering A: Whether it is true and B: What are the commands!
Thankyou everyone!
Gloki
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Post by: Efflixi Aduro on July 15, 2005, 06:40:51 am: Never heard of such a thing. Then again. I don\'t use a mac. Search google or somthing...
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Post by: Leeloo on July 15, 2005, 12:44:34 pm: I think you\'re confusing two things. A mac as an underlying Un*x-system (BSD-based), kinda like Linux, and you should be able to get to the terminal program somehow (try system menus - I never had a Mac, and haven\'t even tried OSX, so I can\'t tell you where it\'s hidden). Commands here include \"ls\", \"cat\", \"man\".

The thing you can get to by holding a key when booting, is the Mac \"BIOS\", called OpenFirmware. It\'s more like the sun PROM Monitor than a PC BIOS though, I believe. Don\'t play around with that unless you know what you\'re doing, you might end up with a system that\'s unable to boot - or the other way around if you know what you\'re doing: Fixing a system that\'s unable to boot.
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Post by: Colim on July 15, 2005, 03:55:35 pm: Open your Application folder, the open the folder called Utility, Help programs or what it is called in English. In this folder there is a program called \"Terminal\". I guess this is what you\'re looking for
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Post by: buddha on July 15, 2005, 06:01:13 pm: When you are booting, hold Apple-S and you will go into single user mode, which is very similar to a standard BSD boot.
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Post by: Ralas on July 15, 2005, 09:50:39 pm: I made my mac unbootable trying to make it not start aqua as a default. Ended up having to reformat the harddrive. Fortunately, it\'s just my hobby computer and all my important stuff is on my linux box.
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Post by: leuxast on July 15, 2005, 11:53:04 pm: Cool thanks guys...I\'m playing with some stuff now...I\'ll probably end up stuffing up my $4000 computer but whatever...