Once again, booting from the CD-ROM has **ABOSULTELY NOTHING** to do with the the CD-ROM driver that you have installed in your system folder. That driver is not loaded until much later in the startup process. Apple drives have special hardware "ROMs" that allow the mac to easily realize that the CD-ROM has a system folder on it when you hold down the 'c' key. You can often force the computer to scan a non-apple drive for a system folder by selecting the CD-ROM in the System disk control panel. Holding down the Command, Option, Shift and Delete (backspace) keys at startup often works, too. AFAIK, the 'c' key only works with Apple-ROM drives. So remember, even if you have **NO** driver loaded on your machine, you can still boot from the CD drive. Tom On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Matthew Mung wrote: > I have a Ricoh 16x CD-RW SCSI and it boot fine with MacOS 8.1, 8.5 and 9.0. > If you do not own cd-rom toolkit, you need to keep a macos cd on the in > drive during the machine bootup. If you do so, you 2400c can see it with > the standard apple cdrom driver. > > Matthew ---------- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! A listserv for users and fans of Mac subportables. FAQ at <http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/DuoListFAQ.shtml> Be sure to visit Mac2400! <http://www.sineware.com/mac2400> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Need help from a real person? Try. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------- Dr. Bott | Great Duo & 2400 stuff including 10/100 Ethernet for 2400s! Dr. Bott | Duo Batts too <http://www.drbott.com/prod/alist/duo.html> NineWire | If they are cool enough to host this list... Digital Solutions | ...you should check them out! http://www.NineWire.com/ PowerBook Guy is | Click here! Everything PowerBook! | http://www.powerbookguy.com Midwest Mac Parts ][ <http://www.midwestmac.com> After-market parts for Macs. ][ 888-356-1104 ][ MacResQ Specials: LaCie SCSI CDR From $99! PowerBook 3400/200 Only $879! Norton AntiVirus 6 Only $19! We Stock PARTS! <http://www.macresq.com>
