On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 06:58:00PM -0800, Brett Schwarz wrote:
This is slightly off topic, but since I not a mac person at all (got a 7200/90 from someone), I am not sure if I did something wrong or not. This is probably a stupid question, but shouldn't there be a CD-ROM icon on the desktop when I am in MacOS? I am not very familiar with Mac at all.
Yes, you should see a CD-ROM icon on the desktop when there is a medium in the drive. CD-ROM support has to be loaded as a system extension, iirc, so check in the extensions control panel first. If you're completely lost, feel free to ask for elaboration in separate mail. What happens if you put CD1 from 7.3 in the drive, restart the Mac and press Cmd-ctrl-Shift-Backspace immediately after the start sound? This key combination is for skipping the internal hard drives and checking on the SCSI chain for a valid start volume. It should find the CD and try booting from there. On newer machines, pressing 'C' during start-up directly selects the CD-ROM drive. On second thought, I'd rather try that with the MacOS System CD that should have come with the box. You need to do that to (re)partition the drive anyway. kind regards Sonja