G3 Desktop - no boot to CD

[Helen Smith]

I have noticed with the Mac I had to use the Memorex CD media that was the
gold color (650 meg capacity not the 700 meg).  Record them on the slowest
speed allowed by the burning program.  This holds true with the color series
of iMac (bondi, indigo, etc) the power Mac (Blue & White, etc).  Only when I
was using the DVD drive could I use a different media but the Memorex (gold
color) worked best across all of them.  This would include to the LC series
forward.

Smitty

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:yellowdog-newbie-bounces at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com] On Behalf Of
Andrew
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 1:32 AM
To: Yellow Dog Linux Newbie List
Subject: Re: G3 Desktop - no boot to CD

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:50:29 -0800
Pete Lancashire <pete5520 at pdxeng.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> New to Mac but not Linux.
> 
> I was given a G3 that I can not get to boot to its CDROM
> 
> What I know about it so far is the back lable has on it
> "PowerPC G3 300 Mhz 1MB Cache 64MB/6GB HD/24x CD/Zip"
> When booted it has OS 8, and 192 MB of RAM.
> 
> I downloaded onto my x86 Linux box the 4 YD CD's, and burned
> the ISO's. But I can not get the Mac to boot to the CD.
> 
> I've tried holding down the "C" key and after booting
> into OS 8, changing the boot disk to the CDROM.
> 
> No matter what it boots to the HD.
> 
> Any suggestions would be welcome
> 
> thanks,
> 
> -pete
> 

Just follow these instructions:
http://www.yellowdog-board.com/viewtopic.php?t=339
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