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Right, what you need to do goes a little something like this; |
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if the mac is on, switch it off. |
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Get a pen, and hold down the 'programmers button'. |
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On a B&W Mac, its the little button underneath the power button on |
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the RIGHT hand side. (the other is the reset button). |
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Tap the power switch (keeping the 'programmers button' held down). |
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You should get a very non-mac like beep. |
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Keep the button held down a little longer, and you should hear the |
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usual Mac 'chime' noise. |
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Once you've heard the 'Chime' you can let go of the 'programmers |
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button' and the screen should now come alive. |
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Welcome to 'Open Firmware'. As far as I understand it, this is the |
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Macs BIOS, or some such thing. |
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At the prompt, type: |
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boot cd:,\\:tbxi |
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and it should boot to the gentoo menu :) -mine did, and it was cool. |
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Hope this helps, |
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MidnighToker. |
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On 11 Jan 2006, at 21:16, Anthony Roy wrote: |
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> Hi MT, |
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>> 1) Insert the CD and wait for it to mount it (an icon |
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>> will appear on |
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>> the desktop). |
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> Done, and can browse CD in the Finder just fine. |
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>> 2) Click on your little apple icon (top left of the |
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>> screen), select |
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>> 'System Preferences' |
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>> 3) Select 'Start-up Disk', wait for the menu to |
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>> populate with |
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>> bootable drives, click on it to select it, and then hit 'Reboot'. |
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> The CD doesn't appear on the list. Only OSX, OSZ 9 and network |
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> folder... |
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> Thanks for the help so far... |
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> Ant... |
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