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<blockquote data-quote="Harryc" data-source="post: 119237"><p>One more quick question that applies to this thread. I have no problem burning DVD's or CD's on the NEC 3500A DVD-RW drive, but so far I can't burn or find a disk that I can prove one way or the other that this drive is capable of booting the machine. I downloaded a copy of Ubuntu PPC Live DVD and it burned fine, but it won't boot. I can hold down the 'C' key all day, no luck. I do not have a copy of Mac OS on CD or DVD yet as this was an EBay purchase last week. One tip I found described a problem with this particular drive and DVD+R media. I tried DVD-R media and no go. I found at least one post on xlr8yourmac that the guy was able to boot with a Tiger DVD using this drive on a G4, so at least I know it is capable of it. I am honestly stumped. Any ideas? I'd hate to go out and buy a copy of OSX only to find I can't boot into it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Harryc, post: 119237"] One more quick question that applies to this thread. I have no problem burning DVD's or CD's on the NEC 3500A DVD-RW drive, but so far I can't burn or find a disk that I can prove one way or the other that this drive is capable of booting the machine. I downloaded a copy of Ubuntu PPC Live DVD and it burned fine, but it won't boot. I can hold down the 'C' key all day, no luck. I do not have a copy of Mac OS on CD or DVD yet as this was an EBay purchase last week. One tip I found described a problem with this particular drive and DVD+R media. I tried DVD-R media and no go. I found at least one post on xlr8yourmac that the guy was able to boot with a Tiger DVD using this drive on a G4, so at least I know it is capable of it. I am honestly stumped. Any ideas? I'd hate to go out and buy a copy of OSX only to find I can't boot into it. [/QUOTE]
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