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    8.10 not finding CD-Rom drive on a iBook G4

    I just downloaded the 8.10 version for the PPC iBook G4.
    I'm at the part where it searches for the CD drive and it can't detect it, even when I manually locate it (/dev/cdrom/).

    Any ideas?
    Computers:
    MacBook Pro - OSX 10.5.5 | 2.4GHz Core-2-Duo | 4Gb Ram | 200Gb HDD
    PC - Windows XP SP3, Ubuntu 8.10 | Intel i7 Core 920 @ 2.66GHz | 3Gb DDR3 Ram | 1.5Tb HDD

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    Re: 8.10 not finding CD-Rom drive on a iBook G4

    PowerMac G5 Debian Squeeze - MacOSX Leopard / Lenovo 3000 N200 Debian Wheezy
    PowerPCFAQ, PowerPCKnownIssues, Booting the Installer on PowerPC, Yaboot - How to configure the PPC Bootloader

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    Re: 8.10 not finding CD-Rom drive on a iBook G4

    Hahaha! Worked perfectly! Thank you!
    Computers:
    MacBook Pro - OSX 10.5.5 | 2.4GHz Core-2-Duo | 4Gb Ram | 200Gb HDD
    PC - Windows XP SP3, Ubuntu 8.10 | Intel i7 Core 920 @ 2.66GHz | 3Gb DDR3 Ram | 1.5Tb HDD

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