On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:26:46 -0500, John Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wasted a week trying to install on three different rev a bondi imacs. I > tried > to install ydl 4.0, ubuntu, and knoppix. I could not get imacs to register the > "c" on boot up. The frustrating thing was a couple of times the imac did > see the cd and boot up.On other occasions, I was able to get into the > forth interpreter but didn't know what to do from there. Since I do > not have access > to the apple and do not know how to upgrade the firmware, I have given up. > It would have been nice :=( > > This is my first experience with apple hw and I am not used to having a > computer > be persnickety about booting from a boot device. I must say I have a very bad > impression of apple now. I had heard such good things about high quality hw.
Interesting. I've always found i86 hardware to be horribly persnickety about boot devices. Anyway, you're using a "rev A" iCrap <ahem, sorry> iMac. They are the lowest of the low on the totem pole of quality computers. They're not a lemon per-se but they're in the same leage as Dell for "quality" <ahem>. Chances are you were running into one or both of two problems: 1. you burned the CDs on cheap media/too fast; and/or 2. the CD-ROMs on the iMac Rev As were failing. To get the iMac so small (it is small when you think about it... the size of a 15" monitor and it had a WHOLE computer in-built) Apple used laptop CD-ROMs. These things are built for size and weight -- not durability. As for upgrading FirmWare -- if you ever do lay your hands on them again, you could check out Apple's FirmWare updaters. They're a free download, though you do require OS 8 or 9 to apply them (if they haven't already been applied). Eric. _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
