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