Removing Mac OS Kids?

[rabbit]

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.

[Joe]

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.

[Sidoh]

He said he can't boot to a CD.

[Joe]

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.

[chuck]

place the cd in the mac, start it up, and quickly hold "c". It should boot from the cd

[rabbit]

Yeah, I tried that.  Didn't work.

[chuck]

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.

[rabbit]

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

[Joe]

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

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

Where'd you download Slackintosh? When I looked for it for my iMac every single download site was dead.

[rabbit]

http://workaround.ch/index.html

[Joe]

Oh, nice, they maintain it now! Last I remembered it was against (or whatever the term is) Slack 7.