Re: Mac question, PC guy...

If, for reason, there is no eject key, holding down the mouse button
while the machine boots will also eject the CD tray.

At 2:27 PM -0700 8/30/06, Jay Bryon wrote:
>There's an eject key top right of the keyboard to open the dvd
>drive. The icon is a dash with an up-arrow-like triangle on top.
>Hold down "C" while booting and it should load up fine.
>
>-Jay
>
>Ted Crum wrote:
>>I am trying to resurrect hand-me-down iMac G5 (dome-and-panel) that was
>>reliably reported to have a bad hard drive.
>>
>>I put in a nice 80GB W-D drive, bare.
>>
>>At power-on I get an image that alterantes between a folder with the Mac
>>face and one with a question mark. Not surprising.
>>
>>The CD drive door is closed, and there is no obvious way to open it. I
>>want to power-up with an OS disc in the drive, while holding down a magic
>>key, with hopes of reinstalling the OS.
>>
>>Does it sound like I didn't get the machine back together right?
>>
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>tc
>>
>>
>
>--
>-Jay Bryon
>Senior Network Engineer, IST-IS-NSO (Network artists formerly known as CNS)
>U.C. Berkeley
>
>jay@berkeley.edu
>2-5636
>
>[Unless stated explicitly otherwise, all opinions are my own and do
>not represent official policy of any part of IST, U.C. Berkeley or
>the U.C. Regents.]
>
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