At 8:07 PM -0500 10/21/2009, williamd wrote:
>I decided to try FreeBSD on my G4 imac. It would not erase the 
>partition i already had with os 10.4.11 on it. So i decided to erase 
>that with my 10.4 cd and try again. Now I have erased the drive so 
>the cd is seen as the start up drive and will not eject. I tried 
>restarting and starting cold trying to eject the cd before it was 
>recognised as the startup disk, but no luck. I even tried to pull the 
>tray out manually but it is tenacious. I see no pinhole for the magic
>paper clip trick. Soooo.... any other ideas?

Hold the mouse button down while you boot.

- Dan.
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- Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth.

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