On 1/28/05 12:53 AM, Kurt Bigler didst favor us with:
> on 1/27/05 8:15 PM, Laurence Harris <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On 1/27/05 9:01 PM, Mark Lilback didst favor us with:
>>
>>> At 6:08 PM -0500 1/27/2005, Laurence Harris wrote:
>>>> There are other ways, but none of them is as easy as the Eject button, and
>>>> none of them will work while the computer is starting up.
>>>
>>> Holding the mouse/trackpad button down at boot will eject the disc.
>>
>> However, this is one of those little-known things often referred to
>> euphemistically as a "power user technique." Pretty much everyone can figure
>> out how to eject a disk with the eject key. ;-)
>
> Yes, and I can no longer find this little tidbit in the manual that came
> with my Mac.
Mac Help in Panther says holding down the mouse button during startup will
eject removable disks. It might allow you to insert one as well.
> Seems to me it used to be there. Isn't it a basic necessity?
> I've never had much of a problem and not needed to do it.
>
> The eject key doesn't help you a bit to get a CD in in time to boot from it.
> You might think you could eject, insert the CD, and boot again, but there
> are cases when that doesn't help, such as when the hard drive is the startup
> disk, and will start to boot but then crashes. Something like this has
> happened here several times over the last several years. I know I've
> absolutely depended on the mouse button, and not knowing about it is a poor
> reason to take the system in for repair when all you had to do was run First
> Aid off a CD, or reinstall a system.
There's a different obscure trick to forcing it to boot from a CD: Hold down
the C key during startup.
Larry
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