Fresh Install of OS X?

TheMagicPirate

TheMagicPirate

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I've had my mac a few weeks now and installed and uninstalled a boatload of stuff.

Basically I want to do a fresh install of OS X just cos I'm weird like that.

Is it as simple as putting in the disc and restarting? I don't seem to have a cd key or anything like that?

Thanks
 
You are wierd. OS X doesn't suffer slowdown bloat to anywhere near the same extent as Windows. Unless you've kippered it and are getting kernel panics I really wouldn't bother.

If you insist however :
Stick the DVD in
Reboot the Mac and hold down C on the keyboard
Mac will load OS X installer from the DVD.
 
As above.. do a "erase and install" and deselect all the extras in the "customise" part of the installation :)
 
TheMagicPirate said:
I've had my mac a few weeks now and installed and uninstalled a boatload of stuff.
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Seems a fair assumption to make given the comment above.

I've only re-formatted once. Upgraded Tiger to Leopard and was having stability problems with kernel panics. Co-incidentally had a new HDD to fit so did a clean install.

Never had the need to reinstall Tiger. Worked perfectly fine with the factory install for 18 months even tho I was a OS X n00b and kept installing and removing all sorts of programs when I first got it, most of it PPC apps. This with me being the sort of person that nukes and reloads a Windows machine every 6 months due to the slow-down and silly errors that creep in.
 
i did a fresh install for similar reasons to you (and i'd borked my fonts by letting a font management program mess with my system fonts) - its a painless operation and like everyone said is as easy as restarting with the c button pressed, but you can just put the disk in and it'll restart for you i think :)
 
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