lymber1 asked:
i know i need to upgrade the machine, but until i do i can’t get the mac to boot up from the cd-rom even when there is a bootable disk..
i have tried holdin down the “c” key but that did not owrk then i tried a couple of times “ctrl-option-shift-delete”
but that did not worked either… i even swapped the cd drive with a known working aopple cd rom drive……just for those who are curious i am installing xubuntu 6.10 or ubuntu for mac 6.06
i know that these os work on a mac cauase i have done it before but i for some reason cannot get this one to work…. it only wants to boot to the harddrive.
December 7th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Try holding the option key during the first part of booting. Check out this site I found or do a search on yahoo for “booting from CD on mac g3″ or similar keywords.
December 10th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Go to system preferences and select startup disk. Make sure the cd is in the drive. When it appears in startup disk select it and reboot. If it doesn’t appear then it will not boot your computer.