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Removing Mac OS Kids?
« on: September 05, 2006, 01:48:29 pm »
I've got an iMac I got from my high school, but it runs OS Kids.  It doesn't want to read the CD-ROM on boot, so I'm not exactly sure what to do.  It's specifically running Mac OS 8.6.

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Re: Removing Mac OS Kids?
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2006, 04:33:32 pm »
Jesus Christ, MacOS 8.6? Talk about retro.

I'm asuming you're running PowerPC, obviously, so you should go get a copy of Slackintosh or Ubuntu (Mac) and wipe the disk as a last resort. I don't know anything of the software itself so I can't help you other than that.
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Re: Removing Mac OS Kids?
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2006, 04:39:13 pm »
He said he can't boot to a CD.

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Re: Removing Mac OS Kids?
« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2006, 04:41:57 pm »
Ah shit, I only realized that thinking he couldn't boot a MacOS install CD. My bad.

I don't know much about Mac firmware but is there something you could do with the "developers button" to format the harddrive or something?

Do you have a floppy drive? I doubt it, being an iMac and all, but I've got some system 7 floppies around here I think.
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Re: Removing Mac OS Kids?
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2006, 11:50:55 am »
place the cd in the mac, start it up, and quickly hold "c". It should boot from the cd
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Re: Removing Mac OS Kids?
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2006, 02:00:12 pm »
Yeah, I tried that.  Didn't work.

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Re: Removing Mac OS Kids?
« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2006, 02:42:46 pm »
Remove teh hard drive. Its just a normal ATA drive. Throw it into a dos box, format it, and put it back in the imac. Then, put the cd in, and try to boot.
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Re: Removing Mac OS Kids?
« Reply #7 on: September 07, 2006, 07:23:56 pm »
Well, I got it working.  Slackintosh is installed.  Anyway, what I ended up doing was booting holding c.  It didn't work well.  After the 8th try I got mad and whacked it on the side, and it went into the Slackintosh terminal :D

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Re: Removing Mac OS Kids?
« Reply #8 on: September 07, 2006, 08:36:48 pm »
Well, I got it working.  Slackintosh is installed.  Anyway, what I ended up doing was booting holding c.  It didn't work well.  After the 8th try I got mad and whacked it on the side, and it went into the Slackintosh terminal :D

Sweet, the old iMac's have the Smack-A-Mac features implemented already! :P

Where'd you download Slackintosh? When I looked for it for my iMac every single download site was dead.
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Re: Removing Mac OS Kids?
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Re: Removing Mac OS Kids?
« Reply #10 on: September 07, 2006, 09:34:52 pm »
Oh, nice, they maintain it now! Last I remembered it was against (or whatever the term is) Slack 7.
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.