Hallo,
some weeks ago I bought a PowerMac G3 at Ebay. It has a 350 Mhz CPU, 512 MB of RAM (256 MB original and other 256 MB added by me), a 24x Apple CDROM drive and so on. Shipped with the computer came MacOS 9.2.2 which can be installed and works without any problem. However I'd like to use Mac OS X (Panther) or a distribution of Linux. But I just don't get the machine to boot from any other CD than the CD with Macos 9. When I press the C button at startup the machine just ignores it and boots the installed operating system. When I choose the OS X CD as the starting volume it again boots the system installed on the hard drive. What can I do? I know hardly anything about Macs, but I'm pretty sure that I'm not the only one having this problem...
I tried to replace the Apple CDROM by a modern DVD drive for PCs, but with this drive it doesn't boot ANY disc.
Thank you very much for giving me some hints how to solve that problem.
Tobi
some weeks ago I bought a PowerMac G3 at Ebay. It has a 350 Mhz CPU, 512 MB of RAM (256 MB original and other 256 MB added by me), a 24x Apple CDROM drive and so on. Shipped with the computer came MacOS 9.2.2 which can be installed and works without any problem. However I'd like to use Mac OS X (Panther) or a distribution of Linux. But I just don't get the machine to boot from any other CD than the CD with Macos 9. When I press the C button at startup the machine just ignores it and boots the installed operating system. When I choose the OS X CD as the starting volume it again boots the system installed on the hard drive. What can I do? I know hardly anything about Macs, but I'm pretty sure that I'm not the only one having this problem...
I tried to replace the Apple CDROM by a modern DVD drive for PCs, but with this drive it doesn't boot ANY disc.
Thank you very much for giving me some hints how to solve that problem.
Tobi