Hi, I bought this iMac G4(the one with long neck) from my school's surplus. I think it's a 500Mhz or 800Mhz machine. Surplus wiped all data on the hardrive.
When I turn on the mac, I heard the sound, but it goes to a flashing question mark screen. I know it's looking for hard disk or Operating System. At first I thought the hardisk is missing, I opened the case, the HD is there.
I don't have a Mac keyboard, mouse and OS DVD. The imac has a DVD-ROM. So I hold the mouse button after it's turned on, and inserted a SUSE linux 9 DVD into it. It doesn't boot. I hold the "C" key, that doesn't work either. I hold the "ALT' key, it brought me to a blue screen with two icon. The one on the left is a round symbol with arrow, I am guessing that's the DVD-ROM? The one on the right is a right-arrow. When I click on it, nothing happens. When I click on this left round icon, the "watch" come out for a few seconds. How do I know if the computer detects the hardrive, anyway to get into BIOS to see if hard disk is present?
Please educate me how to boot a mac. Thanks in advance.
When I turn on the mac, I heard the sound, but it goes to a flashing question mark screen. I know it's looking for hard disk or Operating System. At first I thought the hardisk is missing, I opened the case, the HD is there.
I don't have a Mac keyboard, mouse and OS DVD. The imac has a DVD-ROM. So I hold the mouse button after it's turned on, and inserted a SUSE linux 9 DVD into it. It doesn't boot. I hold the "C" key, that doesn't work either. I hold the "ALT' key, it brought me to a blue screen with two icon. The one on the left is a round symbol with arrow, I am guessing that's the DVD-ROM? The one on the right is a right-arrow. When I click on it, nothing happens. When I click on this left round icon, the "watch" come out for a few seconds. How do I know if the computer detects the hardrive, anyway to get into BIOS to see if hard disk is present?
Please educate me how to boot a mac. Thanks in advance.
