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Can't eject CD drive on G5 - what to do?
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<blockquote data-quote="Rod" data-source="post: 1648291" data-attributes="member: 204485"><p>Maybe we're going about this all wrong. Plexberry said he had an external disk drive as well and the install disk for OSX Leopard. If the install disk is bootable, and it should be and if you can get the disk into the drive using another computer then connecting the external drive and switching on the G5 should force it to look for a OS which it should find on the external drive.</p><p>I have done this with a MBP with no OS and a thumb drive with a bootable Mavericks installer. The MBP looks for an OS at start up it can boot from and finds it on the thumb drive. From there its just a matter of performing an install on the internal drive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rod, post: 1648291, member: 204485"] Maybe we're going about this all wrong. Plexberry said he had an external disk drive as well and the install disk for OSX Leopard. If the install disk is bootable, and it should be and if you can get the disk into the drive using another computer then connecting the external drive and switching on the G5 should force it to look for a OS which it should find on the external drive. I have done this with a MBP with no OS and a thumb drive with a bootable Mavericks installer. The MBP looks for an OS at start up it can boot from and finds it on the thumb drive. From there its just a matter of performing an install on the internal drive. [/QUOTE]
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