Mac question, PC guy...

I am trying to resurrect hand-me-down iMac G5
(dome-and-panel) that was
reliably reported to have a bad hard drive.

I put in a nice 80GB W-D drive, bare.

At power-on I get an image that alterantes between a folder
with the Mac
face and one with a question mark. Not surprising.

The CD drive door is closed, and there is no obvious way to
open it. I
want to power-up with an OS disc in the drive, while holding
down a magic
key, with hopes of reinstalling the OS.

Does it sound like I didn't get the machine back together
right?


Thanks,

tc

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Ted Crum
tedcrumsocrates.berkeley.edu

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There's an eject key top right of the keyboard to open the
dvd drive.  
The icon is a dash with an up-arrow-like triangle on top. 

Hold down "C" while booting and it should load
up fine.

-Jay

Ted Crum wrote:
> I am trying to resurrect hand-me-down iMac G5
(dome-and-panel) that was
> reliably reported to have a bad hard drive.
>
> I put in a nice 80GB W-D drive, bare.
>
> At power-on I get an image that alterantes between a
folder with the Mac
> face and one with a question mark. Not surprising.
>
> The CD drive door is closed, and there is no obvious
way to open it. I
> want to power-up with an OS disc in the drive, while
holding down a magic
> key, with hopes of reinstalling the OS.
>
> Does it sound like I didn't get the machine back
together right?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> tc
>
>   

-- 
-Jay Bryon
Senior Network Engineer, IST-IS-NSO 
(Network artists formerly known as CNS)
U.C. Berkeley

jayberkeley.edu
2-5636

[Unless stated explicitly otherwise, all opinions are my own
and do not represent official policy of any part of IST,
U.C. Berkeley or the U.C. Regents.]  



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If, for reason, there is no eject key, holding down the
mouse button 
while the machine boots will also eject the CD tray.

At 2:27 PM -0700 8/30/06, Jay Bryon wrote:
>There's an eject key top right of the keyboard to open
the dvd 
>drive.  The icon is a dash with an up-arrow-like
triangle on top.
>Hold down "C" while booting and it should
load up fine.
>
>-Jay
>
>Ted Crum wrote:
>>I am trying to resurrect hand-me-down iMac G5
(dome-and-panel) that was
>>reliably reported to have a bad hard drive.
>>
>>I put in a nice 80GB W-D drive, bare.
>>
>>At power-on I get an image that alterantes between a
folder with the Mac
>>face and one with a question mark. Not surprising.
>>
>>The CD drive door is closed, and there is no obvious
way to open it. I
>>want to power-up with an OS disc in the drive, while
holding down a magic
>>key, with hopes of reinstalling the OS.
>>
>>Does it sound like I didn't get the machine back
together right?
>>
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>tc
>>
>>
>
>--
>-Jay Bryon
>Senior Network Engineer, IST-IS-NSO (Network artists
formerly known as CNS)
>U.C. Berkeley
>
>jayberkeley.edu
>2-5636
>
>[Unless stated explicitly otherwise, all opinions are my
own and do 
>not represent official policy of any part of IST, U.C.
Berkeley or 
>the U.C. Regents.] 
>
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Thanks to all who replied....

The solution was to use the eject key at the right-top of
the keyboard. I
never would have found it without help; there was no manual.

Now loading OS from CD's.

-tc

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Ted Crum
tedcrumsocrates.berkeley.edu



On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Ted Crum wrote:

> I am trying to resurrect hand-me-down iMac G5
(dome-and-panel) that was
> reliably reported to have a bad hard drive.
>
> I put in a nice 80GB W-D drive, bare.
>
> At power-on I get an image that alterantes between a
folder with the Mac
> face and one with a question mark. Not surprising.
>
> The CD drive door is closed, and there is no obvious
way to open it. I
> want to power-up with an OS disc in the drive, while
holding down a magic
> key, with hopes of reinstalling the OS.
>
> Does it sound like I didn't get the machine back
together right?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> tc
>
>

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