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Booting from CD-RW drive?
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Join Date: May 2000
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Hey. I just helped a friend replace her Yikes! G4’s internal CD-ROM with a Yamaha CDW4416E CD-RW. Anyone know how we can get the computer to boot from this? (Holding down ‘C’ doesn’t cut it.)
Thanks! 
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Since no one has responded yet, I'll give this a shot though perhaps it's a little different on Yikes!. When you press C at startup the computer uses a driver (hardware or software) to load from a connected CD drives. The Yamaha drive can't be driven from this Apple driver, as a result, you can't boot off of it. There's really not a good solution if this is what is happening. You could try to install the CD-ROM into the unit as well, but it would require hardware modification to make it work. People here agree? You might consider an iPod to boot off of in a jam, I think it should work fine on that machine.
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Since no one has responded yet, I'll give this a shot though perhaps it's a little different on Yikes!. When you press C at startup the computer uses a driver (hardware or software) to load from a connected CD drives. The Yamaha drive can't be driven from this Apple driver, as a result, you can't boot off of it. There's really not a good solution if this is what is happening. You could try to install the CD-ROM into the unit as well, but it would require hardware modification to make it work. People here agree? You might consider an iPod to boot off of in a jam, I think it should work fine on that machine.
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xlr8yourmac.com has a database of all the drives people have used, and whether CD booting works or not.
I expect if the Yamaha isn't happening for you, you can modify the case of your G3 to have two CD drives, instead of the zip space...
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Join Date: May 2000
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Hey, all. Thanks for your help. Actually, I tried booting my beige G3 off of my own Yamaha CRW4416S (the same model, only SCSI) using cmd-shift-option-delete, and guess what—it worked!
(Hopefully my friend’s will do the same! I told her to try it, so we shall see….)
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