The 700mhz emacs had a combo drive. Reads and writes CDs. Does not read DVDs.
Sent from my eyeFone On May 10, 2009, at 1:05 PM, emelvy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On May 9, 2:56 pm, Adrian <[email protected]> wrote: >> (snip) >> >> I found one forum posting from a person who said that he tried >> several >> distros and that OpenSUSE was the only one that worked... so I >> checked >> out the OpenSUSE site, but their PowerPC distros are only available >> in >> DVD format or network install. Net install isn't an option for me, >> and >> DVD install is a no-go because this machine doesn't have a DVD drive. >> >> (snip) >> >> Adrian >> > > I have a 1 GHz G4 eMac (bought from my University's computer store) > that > can read DVDs, although it cannot write them. So, are you sure that > your > eMac can't read DVDs? > > This eMac came with OS X 10.2.4, but I upgraded later to 10.3.9. Now > it's > running 10.4.11 with no problems (RAM is now 2x 512MB instead of the > original 128 MB). The upgrade CD for 10.3 was supplied by Apple > under > some special program that required that I mail in one of the Software > Update > coupons that the eMac came with. The upgrade to 10.4 was done with a > retail Tiger upgrade DVD to 10.4.6 followed by download from Apple.com > of the update to 10.4.11. > > If it's of any use to help you identify what model you have, here is > some > information I copied from Tiger's version of About this Mac: > Machine Model: PowerMac 4,4 CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (3.1) > CPU Speed: 1 GHz Bus Speed: 133 MHz > Boot ROM Version: 4.6.4f1 > Graphics/Display ATI Radeon 7500 Chipset Model: ATY, RV200 > Disk Burning Philips CDD5301 Firmware Revs: 21.8 > Interconnect: ATAPI CD-Write: -R, -RW Reads DVD: Yes > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
