SpaceFlightOrange
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Hi. Just picked up a Nice Mac Mini, 1.42Ghz, 1gb, 80gb. all seems to work ok, but i cant get it to boot off DVD or USB.
I have burned a Tiger ISO to a DVD-RW (the only disk i had!) and when the machine has booted off the HDD it will read the disk ok, and if I select Startup Disk from prefs, i can see the DVD. but when i either select the DVD there, or hold down "C" on startup, it just boots off the hdd. If i hold down ALT on startup the DVD doesnt present itself. If i double click the "Install Mac OSX" it runs and then restarts but just boots off the HDD.
I also have a bootable USB stick with the Tiger install DVD contents on, that i made and have sucessfully booted from on my G4 DA PowerMac, but the mini will detect it's presence (as can be seen in Disk Utility) but it wont mount it. I havent been able to test boot the DVD on the G4 because i only have a CD drive in it. an standard fat32 formatted stick mounts just fine.
Im a bit confused by this. any advice would be great. thanks
I have burned a Tiger ISO to a DVD-RW (the only disk i had!) and when the machine has booted off the HDD it will read the disk ok, and if I select Startup Disk from prefs, i can see the DVD. but when i either select the DVD there, or hold down "C" on startup, it just boots off the hdd. If i hold down ALT on startup the DVD doesnt present itself. If i double click the "Install Mac OSX" it runs and then restarts but just boots off the HDD.
I also have a bootable USB stick with the Tiger install DVD contents on, that i made and have sucessfully booted from on my G4 DA PowerMac, but the mini will detect it's presence (as can be seen in Disk Utility) but it wont mount it. I havent been able to test boot the DVD on the G4 because i only have a CD drive in it. an standard fat32 formatted stick mounts just fine.
Im a bit confused by this. any advice would be great. thanks