[Ghoser777]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone has found a way to eject a CD on start up? I have a Foundation Tool that will eject CD's from the commandline, and I set up it up to run as a StartupItem, and it even runs (I had it print out a file), but it seems like CDs don't get mounted until later in the boot process. So I was wondering if anyone has found a way to have a CD be ejected while the computer boots up (preferably be the time the Loginwindow comes up).

Thanks,
Matt Fahrenbacher

[smeger]

I think you can do it manually by holding down the mouse button while starting up. This worked under OS 9, not sure about X.

[Ghoser777]

Yeah I know, but that's not what I want. I'm deploying OS X in a lab, so I need CD's kicked out on boot. We use a rebuild system that works off a CD, so I need that CD to be kicked out (or any other CD that's in the drive) when the system boots.

Thanks though,
Matt

[BigMac2]

If every mac are the same, you can made a StartupItems script with this command in it:
disktool -e disk2