installation problems

[brian at nutthouse.org]

Also anouther little known trick that usually works. When you turn on the 
unit hold down the mouse button until the CD pops out. This will ususally 
work with any slot loading iMac. 


Christopher Rosado writes: 

> John- 
> 
> Have you tried the eject button that is on the drive itself? If I'm  not 
> mistaken, you should see what seems to be a pinhole on the right  hand 
> side of the CD drive (slot-loading). There is a similar hole on  the tray 
> loading drives that were in the early iMacs (233) but I  don't recall 
> where. I want to say somewhere around the eject button  you'd normally 
> press.- Have a paper clip handy, reboot and  immediately insert the paper 
> clip into that pinhole. You should feel  the eject button depress. If your 
> timing is right, the disk should  pop out. 
> 
> HTH,
> --Christopher 
> 
> 
> On May 22, 2005, at 8:03 AM, <johnvile at doctors.org.uk>  
> <johnvile at doctors.org.uk> wrote: 
> 
> 
>> I am trying to install YDL 4.0.1 on an iMac - 350 Mhz. It got to  the 
>> second CD and then gave me a blank screen with a symbol for  a  file with 
>> a flashing question mark in it.
>> I have disconnected all the peripherals and have tried rebooting  but all 
>> I get is the same symbol. I can't even get the cd out.  Anybody help, 
>> please.
>> John Vile 
>> 
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