Comments on: Preparing a Mac for Resale with OS X Leopard

By: Raam

Raam — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:51:48 +0000

Hey Sri,

Thanks for the update! I’ll update the blog post to mention that erasing the disk first may be necessary.

By: Sri Sankaran

Sri Sankaran — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:13:50 +0000

Thanks for the helpful tips. It helped me finish the task.

However I ran into some rough weather with the initial process. Using a Snow Leopard install disc I did not get prompted to “Select a destination” (Step #4 in the reinstallation section). So, I would end up with a fresh Snow Leopard installation with all my files still intact.

After 2 or 3 attempts with no success, I then pulled up the Snow Leopard DVD and then selected Disc Utilities. From there I chose to Erase. After that and a restart I was brought to the setup assistant and I followed your instructions. Worked like a charm.

A minor note on the instructions to execute in single user mode. The blog output is clipped so I could not see the end of the launchctl command. I had to pull up the page source

Thanks for the tips.

Sri

By: Raam

Raam — Wed, 25 May 2011 14:18:30 +0000

Glad to help!

By: Peco

Peco — Wed, 25 May 2011 00:48:13 +0000

Thanks Raam, you the maan. Absolutely spot on.

By: Raam

Raam — Tue, 10 May 2011 16:54:49 +0000

Awesome! So glad it helped!

By: AndyG

AndyG — Tue, 10 May 2011 14:26:11 +0000

Just prepped one for sale using your instructions. Perfect.

By: Raam

Raam — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:08:18 +0000

Glad I could help!

By: Raam

Raam — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:07:56 +0000

You’re welcome, Don!

By: Raam

Raam — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:07:38 +0000

Awesome! Thanks for the update, Matt! I’ll add a note to the post to confirm this works with OS X 10.6!

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:03:40 +0000

Awesome! This worked perfectly with OSX 10.6
Much appreciated!