Re: (Yet another) netbooting trouble

[Hauke Fath <hauke%Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE@localhost>]

At 12:31 Uhr +0100 14.2.2010, Martin Husemann wrote:
>I feel a bit stupid and could use use some help:
>
>I have a powermac G4 but not the original apple keyboard for it. IIUC the
>keyboard has the "open cd drive" key and I found not way to open the drive
>w/o that (even OF doesn't seem to have a command for it). I would try booting
>from that drive, but since I fail to insert the CD in the first place, this
>is unlikely to work. Is there a OS X command to force it open?

As long as the CD drive is empty, said key will not open it - MacOS does
not know about drives, only about volumes, and there is none. The "Open"
button on the drive should work just fine on an empty drive - if it
doesn't, your drive HW has a problem.

        hauke


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