J Thanks for the advice, the mouse button tip is in the Apple manual for the Mac Mini, and have seen it along with other advice on various postings. Tried it, it did not work, but then I was using an ordinary USB mouse not an Apple mouse, tried various mouse clicks etc. to no avail so far.
P ----- Original message ----- From: Jonathan Gowar <j...@whiteheat.org.uk> To: "Peterborough LUG - No commercial posts" <peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk> Subject: Re: [Peterboro] LUG meeting on May 1 at LINX Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 15:44:00 +0100 On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 13:33 +0100, Paul Scally wrote: > > Hi, I will attending tonight, Jona.. G and I will be building one or > more of his Sparc boxes. > > Mixed success with Mini Mac tried finnix distro, works and used OpenBoot > (OB) PROM as well. Repaced PATA on G4 with > new 2.5 inch disk on Saturday [only the Intel Mini Macs use SATA disks]. > > Unfortunately will not boot first Debian PPC CD, "Cannot read device or > file" used correct command > from OB prompt which is: > > O> boot cd:,\install\yaboot > > CD has been stuck since Saturday, and no OB commands eject cd etc. seem > to work. Learnt a lot but > as Apple will not allow you to boot from USB, it is going to be a bit > more challenging involving Firewire etc. > not yet certain but I do give up easily. I've had Debian installed on a number of PPC Mac Minis, sounds like your CD drive is borked, I'll see if I can find a spare from my stash; bring the Mac Mini with you tonight! Have you tried powering on with the mouse button held down? That ejects the CD from most Apple things. _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro -- Paul Scally p1sc1...@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - IMAP accessible web-mail _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
