Thanks for that Craig, I can get to the vrtual console but... If I type eject I get can't open /dev/cdrom eject -r I get invalid option eject /dev/hda I get Input/Output error Do I have to unmount it or something ? regards -- Dave Houghton Systems Manager Faculty of Humanities Clephan Building, Room 00.07a De Montfort University Leicester LE1 9BH Tel. No : +116 207 8260 Email : djh@xxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Craig White Sent: Thu 18/12/2008 13:11 To: Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora. Subject: Re: fedora 10 on ppc xserve On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 13:03 +0000, David Houghton wrote: > > Hello > > I am trying to install fed 10 on an old ppc g4 xserve which > only has cd support. After the install has finished with disk 1 it > asks > me to insert disk 2 (which i have in my hand) but it does not spit > out disk 1. As it is an xserve there is no eject button. How do > I eject a cd ? > > Thanks in advance. ---- you should be able to get into virtual console <Control><Alt><F2> and issue an eject command...the problem is knowing which device which might be gathered from std-out or std-error windows <Control><Alt><F3> or <F4> and I think you get back to standard display with <Control><Alt><F7> something like this might work... eject -r eject /dev/hda Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
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