[Coco] OT: Ping: Mac users

[James Dessart]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Ray Watts wrote:

> A third possibility is that your battery is dead and you need to zap the 
> PRAM after replacing.  This might be true if there is no "sad mac" on 
> the blank gray screen.  There is also a button in the vicinity of the 
> battery and the PRAM whose name I cannot recall that is used to reset 
> the whole motherboard when needed once in a blue moon.

It's called the CUDA switch. So-called because the PRAM and power manager
chip on some models used to be Cuda.

> If none of that helps, I can ship a bare bones startup CD for OS 9.1, 
> however, be aware it is for an iMac.  I don't what difference that will 
> make.

Shouldn't make any difference, since all the drivers are in the System
file, and Apple only made it possible to limit the drivers included in
early system versions.

But as I told Bob in a private mail, linux will boot it as well.

James