At which speed did you burn the CD? (Burn at 2x to be safe.) Which model do you have? http://www.everymac.com/systems/powercc/index.html
You should be able to hear the drive attempt to read and spin up before it ignores it- does inserting the CD cause a delay in boot time? Let us know how it goes. M > On 3/30/06, Robert Citek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> How does one boot an older Mac from the CD? >> >> >> A while ago Carl had donated a Mac (actually a PowerComputing G3, I >> think) to the cwelug. I finally got a chance to play with it. And so I >> thought I'd boot with Ubuntu 5.10 LiveCD. Unfortunately, unlike the >> PBG4, holding the C key down at power on does not boot the CD. >> It just does the "normal" boot into OS 8.5. >> >> >> Regards, >> - Robert >> http://www.cwelug.org/downloads >> Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS >> for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CWE-LUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.cwelug.org/ >> http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ >> http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/ >> >> > > > -- > The information transmitted (including attachments) is covered by the > Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521, is > intended only for the person(s) or entity/entities to which it is addressed > and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, > retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in > reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the > intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you received this in error, > please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. > > _______________________________________________ > CWE-LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.cwelug.org/ > http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ > http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/ > > _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
