on 1/27/05 10:17 PM, Laurence Harris <email@hidden> wrote:
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:
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.
Mac Help doesn't help much when you can't boot your computer.
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.
Holding down the C key does not cause the drawer to open so you can
insert a
CD. (In any case it certainly does not help you insert a *different*
CD.)
Also holding the C key is far from obscure. A good fraction of newbies
learn how to do this, in my experience here.
