iMac and YDL 3.0 ISO Image

[Dan Burcaw]

Older Apple machines such as iMac have trouble reading ISOs
burned on 700meg CD-Rs.  We've had much better luck with 650meg CD-Rs on
such hardware (although they are becoming much more hard to come by).


On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 13:38, Patrick Larkin wrote:
> Hello -
> 
> I have a 333HMz iMac (the 5-color variety) and I partitioned it into 
> two partitions.
> 
> First, I attempted to boot off the CD but the iMac won't recognize it 
> and asks to initialize it when it finally boots into OS 9.
> 
> So, I tried to go the BootX route but OS 9 also won't mount the disc 
> saying its unreadable.
> 
> I know the disc is fine because my G4's running OS X can mount the disc 
> just fine.
> 
> Is there some issue with these older iMacs?
> 
> 
> Patrick Larkin
> 
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