I bought a G4 iMac at FreeGeek in Portland, a few days ago, and it
came with Ubuntu installed. It appears to be the Jaunty Jackalope.
But when I tried to install OS X, I couldn't get it to start up from
the iMac's optical drive. Wouldn't boot.
The lovely young woman at FreeGeek gave me a disc with a utility that
destroys everything on hard drives associated with the computer.
Wouldn't boot off it, either.
I don't really know if the optical drive is even working properly, at
this point. No evidence for it.
Any ideas? (I forget, can one boot OS X from a Firewire optical drive?)
I suppose I could call FreeGeek.com.... Hate to bother people who do
such good work recycling computers, though.
twv
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