Is there a Knoppix equivelent for PowerPC (Mac)?
Travis Roy
travis at scootz.net
Thu Aug 12 15:21:00 EDT 2004
> And indeed the paper clip trick works. Thanks. And having
> gotten the drive open, it seems to be alive. Give the drawer a little
> push to close it. (The button still does not work.) It "mounts"
> (whatever the MacOs equivalent is) the CD and shows the files. It
> "rebuil"t "the desktop" and now there is a CD drive ICON, from which I
> can eject the CD without the paper clip.
Macs generally don't have eject buttons for much of anything so most mac
hardware that might have an eject button doesn't have that button
enabled. They do have those little emergency eject holes and that's
about it.
> OTOH, holding/typing the "C" key (from Travis Roy) during boot
> doesn't make it boot from the CD. I wonder if it's firmware predates
> bootable CDs.
I found this, it also lists the C key, but you might want to try some of
the other stuff:
http://www.jacsoft.co.nz/Tech_Notes/Mac_Keys.htm
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