Hi,

I hope someone can help.

a friend acquired a German iMac  running OS 8.5 in German, naturally.

To replace it with the English version I thought all I had to do was 
boot the machine with the 'C' key depressed  using the disk Aid, 
initialise the hard drive and re- install 8.5 /6 in English. The 
machine doesn't recognise that and goes ahead and starts in it's 
German  version.

should I be depressing a different key?

I've tried another iMac keyboard and it made no difference.


regards


iain