Is there a Knoppix equivelent for PowerPC (Mac)?

Bill McGonigle bill at bfccomputing.com
Fri Aug 13 17:17:00 EDT 2004


On Aug 12, 2004, at 14:43, Bill Freeman wrote:

> 	Just for grins I tried holding C while it booted.  No
> difference.  (I get a chord played rather than what I'd call a ding or
> dong.)  Might you know how to ask the OS whether it believes that it
> has a CD?

Does it sound like this:

   http://www.tcp.com/~dschaub/Files/Crash/cpwrlc.aiff

Those are death-chimes, or BIOS-level boot failures.  A bum drive can 
cause that.

On Aug 12, 2004, at 15:04, Bill Freeman wrote:

>  I wonder if it's firmware predates
> bootable CDs.

CD booting goes back to the Mac II line so it's probably not a ROM 
issue.

On Aug 12, 2004, at 15:18, Travis Roy wrote:

> 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.

This was true of the old mac floppy drives.  All the tray-loading Mac 
CD-ROM drives have eject buttons.  You have to open the tray to get the 
CD in...   Granted, the new laptop-style slot-loaders don't, you have 
to use a software eject (or hold down the mouse button on restart which 
is "eject everything ejectable") but every desktop save the 
slot-loading iMacs should have a commodity ATAPI CD-ROM drive with a 
button extender.

-Bill
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