Thanks once again everyone Apparently the drive just needed unplugged and cleaned. I should have thought of that first with these being in the guys basement for a few years.
Its installing mac os 8.1 now. These computers will be on youtube soon. On Thursday, February 13, 2014 8:40:51 PM UTC-5, Jordan Reidsma wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I just got a powermac 6500 and 5500 but for some reason they will not boot > from CD's. The previous owner installed a bunch of extra stuff so I am > wanting to reinstall the mac os. > > I have tried holding C, tapping C, holding shift and C, holding option, > tapping option, none of it works. Any ideas? > -- -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
