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hackabusa

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Aug 3, 2008
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After months of lurking, I was hoping my first post wouldn't be me asking for help, but I'm pretty desperate.


Okay, so I have a Rev. D 2.2ghz whitebook that needs to be restored. Long story short, I passed an incomplete terminal command in single user mode and deleted all users, including root. Normally, I'd just pop in the install disks, but I can't seem to find them. I use my macbook to do a lot of sequencing stuff, and have a show tomorrow night, so I really can't wait for apple to ship me new disks. The closest apple store is about 7 hours away.

My question is, if I were to buy a retail copy of Leopard, could I do a clean install there? I have backups of everything except the OS itself on an external drive.


Any advice would be appreciated.
Thank you.
 
Excellent.

I just didn't want to drop the money on it to find it was upgrade only or something.

Thanks!
 
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