Re: [Nolug] Boot from DVD

From: Randy Wild <randywild1_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 14:00:16 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <1380402016.69353.YahooMailNeo@web140602.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

Just before power on, tried Option key, nothing.
C key, nothing
T key, unreadable disc.
This disc was an ISO burned on Windows.
Should I hook up the iMAC to Internet and try to download an image?
 

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 From: Roland Pratts <rpratts@gmail.com>
To: "nolug@nolug.org" <nolug@nolug.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Nolug] Boot from DVD
  

Try target mode and see if that will work... Hold down "T" key during boot up.

On Sep 28, 2013, at 12:46 PM, Randy Wild <randywild1@yahoo.com> wrote:

I have an old iMAC G3 I'm trying to wipe out OS-9 and boot the YellowJacket 6.1 PPC ISO on DVD -R.
>Several places I read to boot from CD (DVD), hold down Options key or C key at bootup.
>Nothing happened except it booted OS-9 from hard drive.
>I then tried an external USB DVD drive plugged into the keyboard using USB, still cannot boot.
>But OS-9 did recognize the drive.
>Any ideas?
>--randy wild
>
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