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List:       mandrake-cooker-ppc
Subject:    Re: Prob installing 9.1 on iMac, eject CD
From:       Jeroen Diederen <jeroen () diederen ! demon ! nl>
Date:       2004-01-01 15:29:15
Message-ID: 422D80EE-3C6F-11D8-9286-003065BA5F7C () diederen ! demon ! nl
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in the worst case you can put a long piece of metal on the right side 
of your cd sleeve and push (bent paperclip is perfect). The cd will 
eject. You can also boot into OF (apple+command+o+f) en then type 
"eject cd" or "eject cdrom", don't remember exactly. Then type "boot".

On Thursday, Mar 25, 2004, at 13:20 Europe/Amsterdam, Alex Thurgood 
wrote:

> Hi all,
> I'm having a problem installing 9.1 on an iMac. The graphical install
> doesn't seem to want to work (at least not in proper display colors) so
> I went via the text install. When it comes to installing I chose
> diskdrake to partition the disk, and got an error saying that I needed 
> a
> bootstrap, but it would let me continue. I deleted the initial HFS+
> partition and created my Linux partitions in the free space created.
> However, when I come to quit diskdrake and write the partition table, 
> it
> tells me that I don't have a bootstrap partition and therefore I can 
> not
> write the other partitions.
>
> When I try rebooting, it automatically boots from the CD again, and I
> can see no way to get the CD to eject so that I can reinstall MacOS and
> partition the disk from the MacOS side before installing Linux in the
> freespace. Is there any way or combination of keys that forces the CD 
> to
> eject ?
>
> TIA,
>
> Alex
>
>
>
>
>


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