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I have an old CRT iMac that I found on the street. It has a CD-ROM drive.

I accidentally locked myself out of the user accounts while playing with it. (I typed in a password quickly and coudn't retype it exactly the same way...)

Is there any way to install Linux on it, or to unlock the user account?

Tamara Wijsman
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Moshe
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Boot off an installation CD (hold the 'C' down during startup) and you'll have options to reset the password.

Joel Bender
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If you go with Linux (which I would certainly recommend):

First of all, Ubuntu will not work very well on a computer that old. You should try Fluxbuntu or some other lightweight version of Ubuntu (I wouldn't recommend Xubuntu though, it is not lightweight enough).

The live install disk should just detect and use the mac hardware, though I don't have experience with this myself and it really depends on how old the computer is. From there on it should work just like on any other hardware.

marcusw
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