mYou see a picture of a disk with a blinking question mark on the screen.
This icon usually means that the computer can’t find system software on the hard disk or any disks attached to the computer. You may need to reinstall system software. See “Reinstalling System Software” in Chapter 8.
mYou don’t see the Floppy Disk Maker picture on the screen.
The screen for Floppy Disk Maker appears when you start up your computer until you make a minimum set of disks. If you haven’t made a minimum set of disks, see the next section, “Making Software Disks.”
(Note: The screen that appears for Floppy Disk Maker may be slightly different from the screen shown in this manual.)
Making software disks
This section describes how to create floppy disks of the software that comes on your computer.
Why make software disks?
Your Macintosh PowerBook computer comes with different kinds of software installed. System software is the set of programs and other files that your computer uses to start itself up, keep track of your files, and run application programs. When you turn on your computer, it looks for a disk that contains the system software. System software is always in a folder called the System Folder.
Other included software gives you added functionality on your computer.
You need to make a copy of this software for safekeeping, in case you ever need to reinstall the software on your computer. The disks you need to install and reinstall software from are called installer disks. You use the Floppy Disk Maker application program to create your software installer disks.
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