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Problems starting up from the CD?
If you’ve followed the steps in the previous sections and the Macintosh
Performa CD icon does not appear on your screen, follow these steps:
1 Insert the CD into the tray.
2Choose Restart from the Special menu.
3Immediately press and hold down the Command (
x
), Shift, Option, and Delete keys.
The Macintosh Performa CD icon appears on the desktop.
4Choose Control Panels from the Apple (
K
) menu.
5Double-click the Startup Disk icon.
The Startup Disk control panel window appears.
6 Click the CD icon to select it as your startup disk.
7Close the Startup Disk control panel window.
8Press and hold down the Control, Command (
x
), and Power keys.
Starting up from a floppy disk
To test, repair, or initialize a hard disk, or to install system software on a hard
disk, you need to start up your computer from another disk. If you don’t have
a built-in CD-ROM drive, you can start up the computer using the Utilities
floppy disk that came with your computer.
To start up your computer using the Utilities floppy disk, follow these steps:
1Shut down your computer.
2 Insert the
Utilities
disk into the disk drive.
3 Turn the computer on.
It takes several moments for your computer to start up from the Utilities disk.
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